Back to Voluntourism...

Well, it has been a few weeks since I referred to voluntourism, but I have been researching it a bit. Last week, I found some new things about it which I had not considered before. For instance, I was somewhat surprised to find out that some people go for volunteer honeymoons, as described here: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/08/20/helpful.honeymooners.abroad/index.html?hpt=Sbin . I must applaud these people for willingly arranging honeymoon trips to help others when they would typically be spending these trips alone with each other.

In reading the article (or shall I say, the comments), I found several other voluntourism websites which I had not encountered before. One of these lit up my day; http://childrenraisethevillage.com/ . This site highlights children who have gone on volunteering trips willingly and other family voluntourism trips which they may have taken unwillingly. To see that there are still children and teenagers who are willing to be separated from their technology and designer clothing to help others gives me hope that perhaps they can change the world for the better.

I have also found a specific blog which focuses on the voluntourism industry: http://voluntourismgal.wordpress.com/ . Though perhaps not as...shall we say 'fun', as some of the other sites I have come across, it nonetheless seems important to check on occasionally so that one can be aware of changes in official voluntourism and it's status.

And last, but not least, I have found yet another website which has mini-episodes highlighting the voluntourism experience here, as well as other traveling tips and other things about traveling: http://www.traveltelevision.org/shows/. These should come in handy for anyone interested in traveling in general.