Who wants to be a volunteer?

These last days a critical video concerning volunteerism was circulating around the internet and of course I don't want to deprive it of you. In the course of our preparation camps we also were confronted with a lot of criticism on volunteerism or "voluntourism" how it is often called in this regard. I think that partially this criticism is certainly justified especially for people who go to a poor country with the aim to save the world. Each volunteer should be aware of the fact that that's not the goal of a voluntary social year but that it is much more about a learning process, both for the volunteers and the people in the host countries, and intercultural exchange.

I don't even want to discuss that topic any further now, but I think that it is important to be aware of the existing criticism, so see yourself.

Here is another video that's definitely worth seeing! Let's save Africa gone wrong.