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'Voluntourism' Feeds Profits, Not Mouths

Gap-year travelers waste their time and money, charity claims

By Jason Farago,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 14, 2007 7:55 AM CDT

(Newser) – A leading British charity has blasted the new "voluntourism" industry as an amateurish scam, writes the Times of London. The vogue for gap-year travel to developing countries, where young volunteers pay for the privilege of teaching children or building homes does little good and...   Read full story »

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