This post is part of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering, under the hashtag #StopOrphanTrips. The campaign ends on June 1st, International Children’s Day, with a call to volunteer travel organisations to remove orphanage trips from their product offerings. Authors of these blog posts and articles urge people to sign the petition to put an end to orphanage volunteering. You can sign the petition here.
This post is a follow up piece to the post ‘Most Children in Orphanages aren’t Orphans: Let’s #StopOrphanTrips’ on Runaway Juno. The post asks readers to support organizations that help families stay together and are trying to put an end to trafficking. The post also asks readers to raise awareness about the dangers of voluntourism and to sign the Avaaz petition calling for travel operators to remove orphanage volunteering placements from their websites by the next Responsible Tourism day at WTM in London in November 2016.