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Voluntourism Gal

Voluntourism Gal

http://voluntourismgal.wordpress.com

Notes on the volunteer travel industry and insights for providers on trends and news.

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  • Volunteers for Prosperity – Call for Action

    Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 10:06 in voluntourism, volunteers for prosperity

    Just got this from Paul Joss with a plea to pass it around so… – This past weekend Congress sent legislation to the President requesting formal consultation on the Volunteers for Prosperity (VfP) program within the next 60 days. This revi...

  • Can You Trust Your In Country Operators?

    Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 09:44 in voluntourism, porters

    Phew, finally back from 4 lovely weeks in Nepal! Time to dust off my laptop and start blogging again… While trekking I saw all the usual adventure travel suspects passing by with their hordes of clients – Intrepid, GAP Adventures, Exodus,...

  • “Exploitation of young gappers and vulnerable communities MUST stop” – or should it?

    Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 07:54 in voluntourism, industry fyi

    Sallie Grayson sent me this controversial article – what do you think? I’m off to Nepal so the blog will take a hiatus but let’s keep the debate raging. —- “Irresponsible, lazy, ignorant, insensitive, disrespectful, uninform...

  • Supporting Local NGOs

    Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 08:31 in ngo, voluntourism, industry fyi, local ngo

    So pretty much once a week an NGO in a developing country comes to me and asks how they can attract volunteers to their project. Some are in it for the money and some genuinely need help, my question to all of you operators out there is: what next? W...

  • TIME and Research

    Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 08:30

    In case you haven’t read the TIME article about luxury voluntourism that came out this week – here you go: Room Service and a Shovel: The Rise of Voluntourism – http://bit.ly/2cy7yd It also seems that there have been a lot of new ...

  • Mistakes to Avoid when Training Volunteers

    Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 13:06 in best practices, voluntourism, volunteer training

    The folks at Volunteer Teacher Thailand offered up this great blog post about mistakes they’ve seen made when training volunteers. I think its a great list to start with, what would you add from your experience?? 1. Fail to explain the problems...

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