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...critics like Barnett warn that ill-prepared or poorly directed volunteers can produce more harm than good. Voluntourists have gone to her complaining about groups that repeated projects already finished by earlier crews or did work considered at odds with the local people's desires. With new companies entering a sector that is still largely unregulated, tour operators sometimes take advantage of even the best-intentioned volunteers, Barnett explains. "It's a new form of colonialism, really," she says. "The market is geared toward profit rather than the needs of the communities." Tourism Concern is developing a code of ethical...
...ability to cure any one social ill, what would it be and why? -Debra Lightner Riverdale, NJIn this, the richest country in the history of the world, I think not addressing poverty, domestically, is the one issue that I would really like to point a finger at. Community service as it pertains to affordable housing is what I'm really focused on. Volunteerism in your community is something that is really rewarding and I find it has given me more personal satisfaction than any accolade that my profession brings me. You never know, the people that you're helping...
...hotel and garbage cans in the area had turned up unspecified "evidence" to support the allegations of performance-enhancement cheating. The shock of that news was so great that French and German riders staged a sit-in prior to the start of Wednesday's leg to protest the ill repute such purported practices have left both the sport and the Tour...
...downside is that at times, people seem spoiled, and, at other times, unfairly favored. How can everyone at every parade in the middle-of-nowhere New Hampshire expect to actually see Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill) marching alongside a scraggly (although quite large) group of volunteers and our shoestring marching band? Isn’t our large presence alone indicative of special attention...
...turned out, Little Nell was dead, which may bode ill for Harry. Rowling has said that two major characters die in the final volume of the series, and judging from the way the sixth book ended, Harry could certainly be one of them...