CNN had an interesting article about something called “Voluntourism”. Voluntourism is defined by Wikipedia as:
Volunteer travel, volunteer vacations or voluntourism is travel which includes volunteering for a charitable cause. In recent years, "bite-sized" volunteer vacations have grown in popularity. The types of volunteer vacations are diverse, from low-skill work cleaning up local wildlife areas to providing high-skill medical aid in a foreign country. Volunteer vacations participants are diverse but typically share a desire to “do something good” while also experiencing new places and challenges in locales they might not otherwise visit.
I find it kind of entertaining that they are saying that it is something that has started in recent years. YWAM has been involved in voluntourism almost since it’s inception 50-years ago and has been sending people to the ends of the earth to experience new cultures, undertake new challenges and tell others about God.
What they call voluntourism Youth With A Mission and the Church calls “Short Term Outreach”.
