International Global Citizen's Award

encouraging young people to become better global citizens

Service overseas - how do I do good in the world?

In quite a number of schools, including some IGC Award schools, students undertake service in foreign countries. Opportunities to do this are quite readily available organised by companies or by the school itself.  There is also an increasing awareness that such activities need to be very carefully organised with clear considerations of the benefits and impacts – positive and negative – on the community receiving student visitors.

A recent blunt blog post by a former “voluntourist” The Problem with Little White Girls (and Boys) received over 2 million views.

Learning to help: From Service Learning to Learning Service is a recent thought-provoking blog by two people with extensive experience of overseas student service, Claire Bennett and Daniela Papi

See also their associated WEBSITE: http://learningservice.info/

This includes some very good resources, including the video for students: How can I do good in the world?

From the video How can I do good in the world from Learning Service

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