UGH! I am SO fed up with these “pay to volunteer” organizations making money and taking in young gap-year kids and then “offering” them to us as employees where we “only need to cover their living expenses.” REALLY? You want me to take your unskilled 17 year-old, play babysitter for a few months as they [...]
I recently wrote a piece about PEPY Tours on World Nomad’s website. I am reposting it below as it relates to a lot of the themes of this blog: Responsible Giving, voluntourism, Cambodia, etc Fast Five Profile: PEPY Tours One of the PEPY riders on her bike for Cambodian based PEPY Tours 1. Who are [...]
A week or so ago someone from CNN contacted us to ask about our opinions on voluntourism, and today we’re on the front page of cnn.com! Exciting that we get to share our message about our transition from traditional “voluntourism” to an education-focused approach. Full story here: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/05/31/voluntourism.tips/index.html
This is a guest post by Eric Lewis: “Take lots of pictures!” It’s something we hear just about every time we leave for someplace exotic. Family and friends want to experience our adventures vicariously, and who can blame them? Photographs preserve certain moments—priceless scenes and scenarios that evade verbal description. But every action has an [...]
I am lucky to have a guest blog post on Saundra’s ever-growing-in-popularity Good Intentions are Not Enough blog. I have been a fan of her writing and her philosophies for some time, so I was delighted for the chance to add some of my thoughts to her work. Here is the original post and below [...]
This is a guest blog post which was originally featured on the Travelanthropist website. Our trips during our first few years at PEPY were all about service. We were enthusiastic about offering travelers a chance to give back to the places they visited, otherwise known as voluntourism. Tour participants taught classes at local schools, visited [...]
Join in our conversation on VoluntourismGal’s website about volunteering in Haiti: http://voluntourismgal.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/spring-break-in-haiti/