Fair Trade – Whitman Wire

Voluntourism on the rise: a call to reexamine how we help

Olivia Gilbert

September 22, 2016

We have all seen this photo on social media: a varying number of white people are surrounded by a varying number of smiling brown or black children. The backdrop is vaguely exotic–perhaps the white people are even sporting ‘native’ clothing. The whole thing is tied together with a nebulous quote...

Tags: aid, Cameron Conner, Conscious Connections, Earthquake, Fair Trade, Ganesh Himal Trading, Grant Gallaher, Lindsay Ross, Nepal, Olivia Gilbert, Pippa Biddle, sean terada, volunteering, volunteers, Whitman College

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