Tuesday, December 7, 2010

The Positive Effects of Volunteering

It is an age old debate: "should you have to pay to volunteer?" and the recent media frenzy surrounding unethical and underhand volunteering projects has throw this subject back in to question once again. With experts from left, right and centre offering up their own opinions on how local communities are being exploited by "Voluntourists" who are seemingly happy to throw money into volunteering as a means to improve their CV, genuine volunteer projects are under threat of being sidelined by a few projects that, although sad to admit, do exist.