“orphanage volunteering” – NO !!!
astonishing … just as we clicked ‘publish’ on our previous post about “orphanage volunteering“ … we received the following enquiry about a placement:
“Citizenship: United States
Category: Volunteer Abroad
Term: Winter
Age: 34
Desired Program: Orphanages
Duration: 2 weeks max this winter”
We responded politely and fully, explaining why this is a BAD IDEA … Here are some of the links we sent:
orphanage volunteering – the issues
Better Volunteering on FaceBook
Better Child Protection on FaceBook
but some organisation will no doubt be pleased to take this volunteer’s money and place them somewhere inappropriate … 🙁