This Earth Day, Juliet Kinsman highlights voluntourism as a way to engage meaningfully with communities while traveling. She shares personal experiences from her travels, including time spent at a school for children with disabilities in Sri Lanka and working with an Indigenous community in Costa Rica. Kinsman emphasizes that voluntourism, when done correctly, can foster deep connections and enrich both the traveler and the local people, inviting them to gain fresh perspectives and insights while contributing to local projects and initiatives.
...voluntourism done right should mean helping to make the world a better place while connecting on the deepest level.
I was reminded how stigmatized disabilities are in many communities. I learned about programs that train young women who are deaf to become highly competent pedicurists.
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