frenchtoastlesbian:

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thepunjabihermit:

tilthat:

TIL that “AIDS orphan tourism” in Africa is a thing, where volunteers temporarily care for children who have lost their parents to the virus, and has left children with attachment disorders and encouraged orphanages to purposefully keep them in poor conditions to attract more volunteers.

via reddit.com

Disgusting

this might as well be a damn zoo

This is a thing that I can’t stop seeing all over Facebook and it has a name. It’s called Voluntourism and it’s evil. It’s a way to siphon money towards these organizations that allow people to volunteer to spend time with kids or build houses and travel at the same time, but what people fail to realize about the very clingy and smiling kids who greet them is that they do that because they never see a person consistently. It’s always a revolving door of tourists who pay to do work that doesn’t need to be done by them.

If you want to help out an underprivileged community or country, try donating somewhere in which the money goes directly towards the people who live there. They know what they need and what needs to be done. Not some rich college student who wants to post about her savior story on Facebook.