After a year in East Africa, that was one of the things I noticed here: they always come in pairs of 20-year-old white girls. Except for South East Asia, many more young men there.
> $3000 bought us a week at an orphanage
That can actually cause children being obducted or "borrowed" to staff orphanages for white Voluntourists.
> Our mission while at the orphanage was to build a library.
And another 10 African carpenters who lost a job to those white Santa-Clauses.
> have a camp run and executed by Dominicans
Good luck. I have never seen any organization actually run locally. Sure, it often looks like it is, but if you digg a little deeper, you always find at least one Westener (or local who lived half their life in the West) making sure that people actually do things and not just spend the money and idle. But there maybe one such organization, somewhere, I just haven't found it yet.
Read further on they didn't lose their jobs, their hours just got shifted temporarily.
> Turns out that we, a group of highly educated private boarding school students were so bad at the most basic construction work that each night the men had to take down the structurally unsound bricks we had laid and rebuild the structure so that, when we woke up in the morning, we would be unaware of our failure.
After a year in East Africa, that was one of the things I noticed here: they always come in pairs of 20-year-old white girls. Except for South East Asia, many more young men there.
> $3000 bought us a week at an orphanage
That can actually cause children being obducted or "borrowed" to staff orphanages for white Voluntourists.
> Our mission while at the orphanage was to build a library.
And another 10 African carpenters who lost a job to those white Santa-Clauses.
> have a camp run and executed by Dominicans
Good luck. I have never seen any organization actually run locally. Sure, it often looks like it is, but if you digg a little deeper, you always find at least one Westener (or local who lived half their life in the West) making sure that people actually do things and not just spend the money and idle. But there maybe one such organization, somewhere, I just haven't found it yet.