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Gap year students cause more harm than good as top university calls for orphanage visits to stop
This article from the Telegraph refers to an interview on BBC Today with Dave Coles, Coordinator of the London School of Economics Volunteer Centre. The article shares Coles’ remarks from the BBC interview on how volunteering helps fuel the problem of family separation in the developing world.
BBC Today Episode: 21 May 2016 (Featuring Interview About Orphanage Volunteering)
This episode of BBC Today Radio features an interview with Dave Coles, Coordinator of the London School of Economics Volunteer Centre, who wrote a piece as part of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering.
Universities have a duty to stop promoting orphanage volunteering
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 calls on universities around the world to stop promoting orphanage volunteering and offers some steps that universities can take to help put an end to orphanage volunteering.
Orphanage volunteering's shocking link to child abuse
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. In this post, the author shares her personal experience as an orphanage volunteer draws attention to the “well-disguised human-trafficking” of orphanages.
Learning to Help: The Importance of Education in Supporting Ethical Volunteering
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 highlights what needs to change in international volunteering, global social service learning, and the ways we teach global citizenship.
How can we end orphanage volunteering
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 asks readers to support organizations that help families stay together and are helping to put an end to trafficking.
Volunteers should stop visiting orphanages and start preserving families
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 describes research on on mission trips to Uganda and the money spent on these missions, “ money that could have been put towards much needed welfare reforms and social services.”
Orphanage Volunteering: notes on good intentions and disasters left behind
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 outlines the reasons orphanage volunteering can be disastrous and how people can help orphaned and vulnerable children in a meaningful way.
¿Dónde ser voluntario mientras viajo?
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.”
The Nasty Business of Fake 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 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.