What You Should Know Before Your Next Volunteer Trip | Heather Ruiz | TEDxWallaWallaUniversity

Heather talks about her experiences as a volunteer working abroad and identifies the differences between volunteering and touring.

Heather Ruiz is a journalist, activist, and humanitarian. She spent thirteen months in rural North Africa investigating and designing sustainable service. Heather's efforts helped create the first community co-op school in Mauritania, and she used music and English classes in two other schools as a successful platform to expand paradigms beyond the social caste system mentality. Her article "Voluntourism: More Harm Than Good" generated a global discourse about responsible service and thousands of shares.

[jeandistefano]

Great talk! I wish i heard this talk before i went on my first short term mission project. Thank u for your well thought out talk. Gina in lights

[TheAquaStan]

see !!!! there ya go !!!! Free and Big 's to make a scripted vid talk show n' post on YT...you need good Elocution skills though doesn't matter if you look like Pinnochio (lol)
why pay and go all the way to Beggarland just to volunteer .