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Dismantling Voluntourism: Evaluating the Effects of a Global Health Supplemental Curriculum on Undergraduate Volunteers Travelling to Haiti

Description:

In the era of international volunteerism, mounting evidence suggests that the presence of unskilled and culturally unaware volunteers in the Global South fosters “voluntourism”, and endangers the very populations and institutions that volunteers want to help. Northwestern does not enforce a pre-trip curriculum for student organizations that coordinate private service...

Keyword:

international volunteerism, medical service, Haiti, global health, and curriculum

Subject:

Anthropology

Creator:

Jehannaz Dastoor

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

06/08/2020

Date Modified:

07/23/2020

Date Created:

2020-05-04

Resource Type:

Conference Proceeding