"Eight million children worldwide are in orphanages and up to 90% of these children are not actually orphans”. / Save the Children

On this episode, you will be able to listen to advocate for responsible voluntourism Eva Cian, The Co-founder of NGO PILOT. Together with her, we will try to understand some global issues caused by voluntourism and shed some light on this so-called feel good by doing good travel.


WHY SHALL WE CARE ABOUT VOLUNTOURISM?

Every year westerners go abroad to volunteer and what we do know is that the popular travel type is seen as a do-good feel-good vacation but what is not looked closely enough at is the fact that volunteering abroad rarely have the positive impact you might think it has. If young people are not equipped to work with at-risk children in their home country why should they be able to do so abroad?

Unregistered NGOs, for-profit travel agencies and volunteers unfit for the jobs, make voluntourism a multi-billion dollar market with a non-sustainable and truly damaging agenda.

 If you would like to understand how can you contribute to making this industry more sustainable, contact Eva Cian here.



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