How Volunteering Abroad in Orphanages is Harmful to Children

Eric Hartman, Better Volunteering Better Care - Matador Network

This video 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 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.

The 3-minute video summarizes the research on how and why orphanage trips are harmful to children.