Comments on: Traveling Responsibly – Learning Trips Over Giving Trips? http://travelanthropist.com/2010/02/traveling-responsibly-learning-trips-over-giving-trips.html Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:34:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: jessiev http://travelanthropist.com/2010/02/traveling-responsibly-learning-trips-over-giving-trips.html/comment-page-1#comment-810 jessiev Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:39:50 +0000 http://travelanthropist.com/?p=2338#comment-810 LOVE this article. i am so impressed with the dedication and efforts that PEPY has made. LOVE this article. i am so impressed with the dedication and efforts that PEPY has made.

]]> By: Alexia Nestora http://travelanthropist.com/2010/02/traveling-responsibly-learning-trips-over-giving-trips.html/comment-page-1#comment-738 Alexia Nestora Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:05:34 +0000 http://travelanthropist.com/?p=2338#comment-738 Love this post Daniela! Really breaks everything out clearly and without the classic sugar that is dripped all over voluntourism brochures. Voluntourists are in fact never going to 'change the world on vacation', like one of the big volunteer companies shouted for years on their website, but if when they return home they remain committed to community development and help through donations and fundraising then we, as a voluntourism 'industry' have succeeded. This is my favorite quote by far that you made: "Was the voluntourism project decided because of actual needs or because of the ease of integrating unskilled foreigners into the tasks?" Can we please paste this all over the internet??? I would love it if every volunteer company out there asked themselves this exact question for each of the trips they offer - I think then we would rapidly start becoming a more responsible industry. Love this post Daniela! Really breaks everything out clearly and without the classic sugar that is dripped all over voluntourism brochures. Voluntourists are in fact never going to ‘change the world on vacation’, like one of the big volunteer companies shouted for years on their website, but if when they return home they remain committed to community development and help through donations and fundraising then we, as a voluntourism ‘industry’ have succeeded.

This is my favorite quote by far that you made:

“Was the voluntourism project decided because of actual needs or because of the ease of integrating unskilled foreigners into the tasks?”

Can we please paste this all over the internet??? I would love it if every volunteer company out there asked themselves this exact question for each of the trips they offer – I think then we would rapidly start becoming a more responsible industry.

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