by admin | Sep 25, 2020 | Uncategorised
This is the second in a series of guest posts by Naomi Shafer from Clowns Without Borders. I grew up in a small, rural town (okay, it’s a village of 300), and have always been interested in international work. Before my parents moved to Vermont, both had worked and...
by admin | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorised
This is the first in a series of guest posts by Naomi Shafer from Clowns Without Borders. When I was 18, I did a volunteer program to plant trees…in Siberia. For context, Siberia has 20 percent of the earth’s forests, and 60 percent of the boreal forest in the...
by amanda | Apr 24, 2014 | Blog
Voluntourism is under fire. I know, because I have been a part of pointing out theunintended negative consequences of our good intentions for some time. Recently, blogs about “the problem of little white girls and boys” and other rants about voluntourism...
by amanda | Apr 9, 2014 | Blog
We often use “service learning” to describe volunteer programs and international volunteer travel, emphasizing learning through service—service that teaches life lessons that help both the traveler and the world. The profound lessons that international volunteering...
by amanda | Mar 26, 2014 | Blog
Volunteer tourism, or ‘voluntourism’, is one of the fastest growing areas of the tourism industry. However new evidence suggests that it may be doing more harm than good in developing countries, as Kerry Stewart reports. Earlier this week Daniela Papi...
