VOICES May 2021

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The ABC of ethical volunteering abroad Over the past decades traveling to distant places has become all the time more and more easy and affordable. Alongside this trend, also new, alternative forms of traveling have emerged. Many people have chosen to volunteer abroad to fuse the fun of exploring an exotic country by working in a local charitable organization. Despite, at first glance, volunteering sounds like a fair deal, the phenomenon has also attracted criticism. VOICES spoke to former volunteers and a director of Forever Angels, a charitable organization in Tanzania.

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