International volunteering
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International volunteering is when volunteers contribute their time to work for organisations or causes outside their home countries. International volunteering has a long association with internation
Pierre Cérésole and international volunteers at the first workcamp in France in 1920
Eleanor Roosevelt and President John F. Kennedy discuss the Peace Corps, 1961.
A group of European Voluntary Service volunteers during training
White savior
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The term white savior is a critical description of a white person depicted as liberating, rescuing or uplifting non-white people; it is critical in the sense that it describes a pattern in which peopl
International volunteering
…perpetuated narratives of racial inferiority/superiority, by pushing the idea that whiteness is associated with progress and therefore further reinforces a white saviour industrial complex that reaffirms unequal power dynamics between the "Global North" and "Global South". Other criticisms of the voluntourism industry are that not only…
Writer Teju Cole, who coined the term white savior industrial complex