Family for Every Child is looking for a Programme Support Officer to join its team and to support grant management and logistics and administration for Family for Every Child’s projects and programmes.

Esta entrada de blog es una parte de la serie de artículos de la Iniciativa de Better Volunteering Better Care que están dirigidos a la sensibilización sobre las cuestiones de voluntario en orfanatos. En la entrada, Dur Montoya describe su experiencia de ser voluntaria en un orfanato falso, “el peor error de mi vida.”

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. The post explains how so-called “orphanages” are used as money-making operations and how children who are separated from their families to live in these institutions suffer.

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. The post, from Intrepid Travel, lists six reasons not to visit or volunteer in orphanages.

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. The post shines light on the darkside of volunteering and voluntourism, particularly as the trend grows among young people taking a “gap year.”

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. The post succinctly lists 10 reasons not to volunteer in orphanages.

This report aims to raise awareness and spur action from governments, the tourism industry and civil society organisations to end the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT).

This paper provides an overview of international volunteering, or “voluntourism,” and its potential vulnerability to child sexual exploitation, particularly in residential care centres. 

This brief from ECPAT's Global Study on Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism defines the term "voluntourism" and its risks to children, with a focus on orphanage voluntourism.

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. The post offers a brief profile of the response the author received to her documentary film on orphanage volunteering and her thoughts on how to promote positive change.