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Hard, honest look at voluntourism by Lucy Corne
By Joshua | February 4th, 2009 | 
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Lucy Corne’s article, “Is Voluntourism a Dirty Word?” gives a nice overview of volunteering abroad, focusing on the new trend of short-term volunteering, pitfalls and all. For instance, she advises against working directly with children on a short-term basis, since they’ll feel rejected when you move on, potentially doing more harm than good. She offers more good advice throughout, especially the roundup at the end of the article. Enjoy.
Category: Travel, 0. Volunteering Abroad
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This is a very thought provoking article. We will most likly post as link to it very soon. Thanks for sharing Josh!
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Great article on volunteerism. Echoed my concerns exactly. And her advice about working directly with NGO’s is spot on.