Volunteer tourism can be great for volunteers and the communities that receive them. But we need to be absolutely clear: volunteering in an orphanage abroad is a bad idea.
Here are tips to tell your volunteering story on social media, using language and images to make a positive impact and break stereotypes, not reinforce them.
Most people who volunteer overseas genuinely want to do something meaningful and experience a new culture. But often they are doing more harm than good.
How volunteering in an orphanage could be hurting the people you’re there to help.
Orphanages damage children by starving them of something just as vital as air and water – love
Find out how many children are confined in orphanages around the world.
Commonly used terms include ‘institutions’, ‘orphanages’, or ‘children’s homes’. Whatever they’re called, discover the 13 characteristics of institutional care
Orphanages are the problem. They cause family separation. Learn how.
