Learning Service Slideshare
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This is a presentation on Learning Service, voluntourism, and international volunteer travel by Daniela Papi & Claire Bennett presented to a group of teachers at the Rocky Mountain Seminar in Boulder, CO, through Where There Be Dragons.
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- 1. Learning Service Examining service: motivations, pitfalls, benefits, and lessons learned Claire Bennett @DanielaPapi
- 2. Our stories
- 4. Schools donât teach kids.
- 5. Neither do pens, books, or t-shirts.
- 6. We needed to invest in people to put those things to use
- 8. How did the NGO change? Started  out  âgiving  thingsâ  Now,  âinves5ng  5me  in  peopleâ Â
- 9. We moved from giving things away to How did the NGO change? investing time in people Started  out  âgiving  thingsâ  Now,  âinves5ng  5me  in  peopleâ Â
- 11. How  has  PEPY  Tours  changed?  How did the tours change? Started  out  doing  âvoluntourismâ  Now,  oïŹering  a  âchance  to  learnâ  Could  also  just  be  two  images  â  perhaps  people  building  or  pain6ng  something  (can  just  be  s6ck  ïŹgures  like  the  story  of  stuïŹ)  and  the  second  people  si?ng  and  talking  or  learning? Â
- 12. How  has  PEPY  Tours  changed?  We moved from building, painting, and âhelpingâ, to learning,the tours change? How did debating, and âlearning serviceâ Started  out  doing  âvoluntourismâ  Now,  oïŹering  a  âchance  to  learnâ  Could  also  just  be  two  images  â  perhaps  people  building  or  pain6ng  something  (can  just  be  s6ck  ïŹgures  like  the  story  of  stuïŹ)  and  the  second  people  si?ng  and  talking  or  learning? Â
- 13. itâs not how we can save the world in a week
- 14. Itâs what we do the other 358 days of the year.
- 15. We shifted our vocabulary Iâm from the âVillage of Briarcliff ManorââŠâ Volunteering Beneficiaries âvillagersâ
- 16. We shifted our vocabulary Iâm from the âVillage of Briarcliff ManorââŠâ Volunteering Beneficiaries âvillagersâ ⊠yet no one has ever called me a âvillagerââŠ
- 17. We shifted our vocabulary Being a âvolunteerâ means there is a âbeneficiaryââŠ
- 18. We shifted our vocabulary Being a âvolunteerâ means there is a âbeneficiaryâ⊠⊠but then itâs hard to remember that those people weâre meant to âserveâ are actually the ones from whom we need to learn!
- 19. We shifted our vocabulary Volunteering Service Learning
- 20. We shifted our vocabulary Service Learning Learning Service
- 21. We have to learn before we can help
- 22. sympathy /ËsimpÉTHÄ/ Noun: Feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune. empathy /ËempÉTHÄ/ Noun: The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
- 23. sympathy /ËsimpÉTHÄ/ Noun: Feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune. empathy /ËempÉTHÄ/ Noun: The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
- 25. So⊠what could actually go wrong?
- 26. In this trip.. EVERYTHING that could have gone wrong!
- 27. In this trip.. EVERYTHING that could have gone wrong! List of things that possibly go wrong All of it Bad planning Poor implementat Lies and corruptio An evil guy
- 28. In this trip.. EVERYTHING that could have gone wrong! List of things that possibly go wrong All of it Bad planning Poor implementat Lies and corruptio An evil guy
- 32. No transparency
- 37. Little to no traveler education
- 38. Little to no traveler education
- 39. The WRONG people were let in
- 40. The WRONG people were let in
- 41. The WRONG people were let in
- 42. âEarlier this year, the British owner of the Cambodian Orphan FundâŠwas sent to prison in Cambodia for sexually abusing several minor boys in his care.â -⯠âShould You or Shouldnât You Volunteer in a Cambodian Orphanage?â, Expat Living, Monica Pitrelli, Oct 2011
- 43. (If you plant papayas, you canât get mangoes.) ááá·á%á&áą(á*á%á&áá/á»á 2ááą(á áá·á4á áááœá9ááá<= áá á
- 44. Three ways we lose students 1)âŻPoverty Overload 2)âŻSavior Overload 3)âŻFailure Overload
- 45. Three causes of pitfalls Setting travelers up for failure Fueling waste & harm Supporting ineffective aid models
- 46. Setting travelers up for failure 1)⯠False Marketing 2)⯠Fostering Moral Imperialism 3)⯠Offsetting culture
- 47. # 1 This is how we are âmarketingâ the âdevelopingâ world.
- 48. This is how we are âsellingâ solutions to these problems.
- 49. Studies show that a large part of what people âknowâ about âdevelopingâ countries comes from fundraising campaigns
- 50. WELLS DO NOT PROVIDE CLEAN WATER.
- 51. âThe statement that this sort of media makes is âWe have a group of people who are utterly helpless, and only you can save them.â⊠this person is helpless â this person needs your money â this person is incapable of making a better life for him/herself. In going down the path of the âsaviorâ, weâll inevitably be biased not towards policy that works, but towards policy that makes us feel good about ourselves.â -⯠What is poverty porn and why does it matter for development? Matt Collin
- 53. âWe donât send people over to the US to help with the emotional poverty we see there: with unhappy people, high divorce rates, broken family units, and dependence on material wealth - so why do you send people over to âhelpâ us with our financial poverty? We would fail at helping you as you are failing at helping us.â -⯠Ghanaian NGO Director
- 54. # 3 Creates an offsetting culture
- 55. Setting travelers up for failure Fueling waste & harm Supporting ineffective aid models
- 56. Fueling waste & harm 1)⯠Shifting power structures 2)⯠Poor monitoring 3)⯠Volunteers are not free
- 59. Donât research Buy bad car
- 60. Donât research Car breaks Buy bad car
- 61. You can change your behavior in the future Car breaks Donât research Buy bad car
- 62. Donât research SCHOOL Fails, adds to corruption, etc. Invest in the wrong thing
- 63. Donât research You donât usually know it! SCHOOL Fails, adds to corruption, etc. Invest in the wrong thing
- 64. # 3 Volunteers are not FREE
- 65. Setting travelers up for failure Fueling waste & harm Supporting ineffective aid models
- 66. Supporting ineffective aid models 1)⯠Seeking out easy & fast solutions 2)⯠Childâs rights violations 3)⯠Creating experiences âfor the travelersâ
- 67. # Seeking out easy & fast âsolutionsâ 1
- 68. Shifting from consumer driven âaidâ
- 71. âThere were about 25 kids inside the âorphanageâ. Every time a tourist boat pulled up and people went in to deliver their bounty, the children would stop what they were doing and shout a greeting or a thank you. Doing that every five minutes throughout the day is surely going to impact on your education. It was obvious that the children were being used for profit. Yet boat after boat of people were pulling up to get their holiday feel good points by gawking at children trapped in a floating cage, chorusing multilingual greetings like polished professionals.â -⯠âOrphanage Tourism: Cute Kids, Cashed Up Tourists, Poor Outcomesâ, Devpolicy Blog, Development Policy Center
- 72. Ask yourself: Would this be okay if this was happening in my community?
- 75. âMany volunteers see it as their role to provide love, thus building strong emotional bonds with the children. However, when volunteers leave, these bonds are broken and the children are once again left alone.â -⯠With the best of intentions, a study of attitudes towards residential care in Cambodia, 2011, UNICEFfunded
- 76. # 3 Creating experiences for travelers while overlooking the cause
- 77. Perceived Model The  community  or  the  project  has  a  need The  community  or  project  puts  out  a  request  for  volunteers Volunteers  supply  that  skill  and  9ill  the  need Frequent Model A  sending  organization  has  increased  demand  for  a  speci9ic  location  or  type  of  volunteer  project The  organization  seeks  out  more  placements  to  9ill  the  volunteersâ  demands The  hosting  organization  agrees  to  take  the  volunteer,  in  exchange  for  payment  or  in  hope  of  continued  donations
- 78. âYou know, Americans always want to paint things. They want to paint buildings, so we have a building we let them paint. Usually we have to repaint the walls after the Americans leave because they donât do a very good job.â -⯠Excerpt from Rethinking Short-Term Missions for Long-Term Impact by Mary Faulds
- 82. Videos & tools soon at learningservice.info
- 83. âąâŻ Throughout the Journey: Adopting a Learning Mindset âąâŻ Before departure: Thorough Research âąâŻ While Abroad: Humble, Mindful, and Self-Reflective Action âąâŻ Back at home: A life-long approach The trajectory of the bookâŠ
- 84. Adop5ng  a  learning  mindset  -⯠Pre-departure tonesetting -⯠Debriefs -⯠Acknowledging cultural lens -⯠Open issues up for debate
- 85. It isnât changing your mind
- 86. Itâs forming new opinions based on new information
- 87. Thorough  research  -⯠Transparency -⯠Impact goals -⯠Power dynamics -⯠Skill fit (and the importance of âattitude buildingâ not just âskill buildingâ) -⯠Cultural context -⯠Learning opportunities
- 88. Humble,  Mindful,  &  Self-ÂâReïŹec5ve  Ac5on  -⯠Build relationships -⯠Avoid confirmation bias -⯠Remember you vote with your money -⯠Donât forget the rest of the trip!
- 89. $ Remember: You vote with RESEARCH: Giving your your money money
- 90. Do you want more kids on the street?
- 92. Donât forget the rest of the trip!
- 93. A  Life-Ââlong  Approach  -⯠Follow up!!!! -⯠Nuance & complexity -⯠More questions than answers -⯠Interconnectedness -⯠Lifestyle & daily choices
- 94. What are you married to? The exact initiative (a fundraiser, a volunteer trip, etc) The issue or NGO partner The experience for the student
- 95. Daniela Papi d@pepytours.com pepycambodia.org pepytours.com learningservie.info lessonsilearned.org
- 97. Global  Ci9zenship  -Ââ⯠Humility  -Ââ⯠Inter-Ââconnectedness  -Ââ⯠Compassion  -Ââ⯠Gra5tude  Leadership  &  Skill  Building  -Ââ⯠Responsibility  -Ââ⯠Ownership  -Ââ⯠Courage  -Ââ⯠Self-ÂâreïŹec5on  Awareness  of  Self  -Ââ⯠Awareness  -Ââ⯠Curiosity  -Ââ⯠Authen5city  www.wheretherebedragons.com
- 98. Now also at learningservice.info
- 100. Child Safe Campaign at thinkchildsafe.org
- 104. Daniela Papi d@pepytours.com pepycambodia.org pepytours.com learningservie.info lessonsilearned.org