Controversies
Many controversies have arisen over the effectiveness and helpfulness of voluntourism. Frequent objections question the ability for volunteers to make a sustainable difference in as short of a time as one week. 6.
Another ongoing controversy with voluntourism includes Orphanage Tourism, the act of traveling as a volunteer to an orphanage overseas to spend a short period of time working directly with the children. Accusations against orphan operators include “keeping children in abject living conditions to generate continued foreign donations and lax or non-existent background check for potential volunteers.”. Globe Aware maintains a stance of not supporting Orphanage Tourism.
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