Volunteering Overseas
Guideline #4 for Volunteering Overseas
Friday, October 7th, 2011
This is the final post in my Guidelines for Volunteering Overseas series. I’m back from hiatus and will start blogging again soon.
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Manage your expectations
Although volunteering overseas can be a life-changing experience, it’s also one of the
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Guideline #3 for Volunteering Overseas
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
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Examine your motivations
The debate over voluntourism seems to be coalescing around
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Guideline #2 for volunteering overseas
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
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Don’t volunteer to do what a local person could be paid to do
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Guideline #1 for volunteering overseas
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
I’m on hiatus until early October. While I’m away, I’m reposting previous posts that I think my readers will enjoy. Here’s this week’s repost.
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While most development workers can tell stories of volunteers or volunteer projects that did
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Whites in Shining Armor
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
While I’m on hiatus this summer, I’m reposting articles that I think will interest my readers.
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Pick up your local newspaper after any disaster and you’re likely to encounter a story about someone from your area saving
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Voluntourism IS the Best Option
Monday, July 25th, 2011
This week’s guest post is by Eric Hartman. Hartman is working on a book titled, Building a Better World: The Pedagogy and Practice of Global Service-Learning (with Kiely, R., Friedrichs, J., and Boettcher, C.). In the past several years he…
Turning Good Intentions into Good Actions
Monday, June 20th, 2011
This is a guest post by Jeff Raderstrong. Jeff is the Communications and Assessment Associate at Venture Philanthropy Partners and the co-founder of the Social Entrepreneurs of Grinnell. He tweets @jraders and blogs at Change Charity.…
A Peace Corps poster child mulls over the 50th anniversary
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
This is yet another post that has lingered in my “draft” file for months. It was inspired by the post Peace Corps: America’s most extensive SWEDOW (stuff-we-don’t-want) operation? on Dave Algoso’s blog Find What Works.
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I am essentially a…
Problems with orphanages in Haiti and Cambodia
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Those of you that follow my blog regularly know that I’ve write about the problems with orphanages often. In fact, I’ve written 12 posts on the topic. Just this week two articles came out in the news that…
What are our real motivations?
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Two things came up today that brought home the question of our motivations. Do we do things because it’s what’s best for “them” or for “us”?
Here’s a comic strip from today’s paper.
And Katherine over at Solar Sisters…
