First Do No Harm: Are “Voluntourists” A Boon Or Bane For The Communities They Serve Abroad?
Anna Howe2018-11-09T07:55:16-08:00
What's your idea of the perfect vacation? Is it lying on a beach, tanning and gazing at the lapping waves? Or skiing through fresh powder on a snowy mountain?
Or might it, instead, involve digging a well in a poor village, teaching English to a group of foreign schoolkids or lugging bales of hay to feed elephants at an animal rescue shelter?
If you lean more toward the latter, you might just be a voluntourist (a mashup of volunteer and tourist)