EPISODE 14: Your Voluntourism Is Doing More Harm Than Good

This week VERVE bring in Chanju Mwanza, badass feminist who contributes to VERVE’s blog, to read and discuss her recent blog ‘Your Voluntourism is Doing More Harm Than Good’. Afterwards Chief Feminist Operative & CEO of VERVE, Anna Quick Palmer, and Chief Managing Feminist, Erin Whiteley, talk to Chanju about the complex issue of ‘White Saviour-ism’. We discuss the negative impacts of young adults using their 'volunteering' as a way to travel, how awful it is for children to get attached to those they won't see again, and how to know when to help & when to step back. Has your own volunteering been more harmful than helpful? Listen for the ways in which you can help instead of hinder through your own volunteering.

Article ‘Your Voluntourism is Doing More Harm Than Good’ by VERVE Contributor Chanju Mwanza: https://www.verveup.com/shesaid/your-voluntourism-is-doing-more-harm-than-good?rq=voluntourism

GVI Volunteering that Anna mentions her daughters helped with: https://www.gvi.co.uk/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMImoqM3su13QIV6pztCh2nRwucEAAYASAAEgIx_fD_BwE

Defining what ‘White Saviour Complex is’: https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/06/white-savior-problem/

What the volunteering programme that Anna mentions, ‘Peace Corps’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Corps

More on one of VERVE’s favoured charities, Tostan: https://www.tostan.org

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Speaking:

Anna Quick-Palmer - VERVE Chief Feminist Operative

Erin Whiteley - VERVE Chief Managing Feminist

Chanju Mwanza - VERVE Contributor

Helena Burton- Jones - VERVE Podcast Manager & Editor

Music Intro & Outro:

Jamie Masterson - Freelance Music Producer (insta: jaytmasterson)

Speaking over Intro & Outro music:

Anna Quick- Palmer - VERVE Founder & Chief Feminist Operative