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.
For Anti-Slavery Week 2022, we’re launching the #EndOrphanageTourism campaign. Hear Sophie’s story of why she will never volunteer at an orphanage again.
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.
Read part 1 in a series of 3 blog posts by Regional Advocacy Manager Stephen Ucembe. Here he explores voluntourism and how orphanages pretend to help children.
How volunteering in an orphanage could be hurting the people you’re there to help.
Border Force reflect on our campaign at London Heathrow, Manchester and Gatwick airports to dissuade travellers from visiting orphanages on holiday
Better Care Network NL’s Wees Wijs campaign acknowledges voluntourism can be harmful to children in orphanages.
