Better Volunteering Better Care Blogging Blitz

The Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s blogging blitz is a month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering, under the hashtag #StopOrphanTrips. The campaign began in May 2016 and extended into June, ending with a call to volunteer travel organisations to remove orphanage trips from their product offerings and a position paper from the initiative. Authors of these blog posts and articles urged people to sign the petition to put an end to orphanage volunteering, available here.

The posts from this blogging blitz include:
 

• What Does Responsible International Volunteering Look Like?

• I volunteered at an orphanage and now I campaign against it

• #StopOrphanTrips: How will volunteer tourism organisations respond?

• Most children in orphanages aren't orphans. Let's #StopOrphanTrips

• It's good to volunteer - but not in orphanages

• Are Good Intentions Good Enough? Protecting Children in Short-Term Missions

• The Dark Truth About Orphanage Volunteering

• Children as products - the reality of orphanage voluntourism

• Interview with the director of The Voluntourist Documentary

• 10 Reasons Why Orphanage Voluntourism Must Stop

• Malia, The Rise of the Gap Year, and Ethical International Engagement

• 6 reasons you should think twice about orphanage tourism

• The Nasty Business of Fake Orphanages

• ¿Dónde ser voluntario mientras viajo?

• Orphanage Volunteering: notes on good intentions and disasters left behind

• Volunteers should stop visiting orphanages and start preserving families

• How can we end orphanage volunteering

• Learning to Help: The Importance of Education in Supporting Ethical Volunteering

• Orphanage volunteering's shocking link to child abuse

• Universities have a duty to stop promoting orphanage volunteering

• Why We Don't Visit Orphanages

• Family travel must stand up for families and #StopOrphanTrips

• ‘Why no one should desire to volunteer in orphanages’

• How to be a responsible, child safe aware traveler

• One Orphan's View of International Volunteers

• Why we don't support orphanage volunteering

• Volunteering holidays for school children

• Why you should think twice about volunteering abroad

• Why it is time to stop orphanage volunteering

• Don't volunteer at an orphanage, do this instead

• How The Umbrella Foundation is Helping End “Voluntourism” in Nepal

• Are we more interested in feeling good than actually doing good?

• Debunking the orphanage myth

• Responsible travel operators leading change in industry approach to orphanage volunteering

• Orphans may be cute. But attachment problems are not.

• All traveling volunteers should watch this video #StopOrphanTrips

• International development organisations on why to say no to orphanage volunteering