Interesting Links

 

 

Ethical Volunteering is the website of Dr. Kate Simpson. Since 1998 Kate has researched programs and companies who send vounteers and interns to developing countries. She has published "The Guide to being an Ethical Volunteer“, which in three steps, provides help in finding a good organisation and which reviews the right attitude of participants concerning their stay abroad.

 

 

The website Volunteeringoptions.org, operated by Comhlamh (Gaelic for "Solidarity“), the Irish Association of Development Workers, provides interesting articles for volunteers and interns in developing countries. The articles have the aim to improve the understanding and perception of several issues and structures that volunteers and intern will most probably encounter during their stay abroad. Part of this are today's still prevailing manifestation of power relationship between the northern and southern hemisphere and topics about post-colonialism, racism and gender issues in developing countries.

 

 

Tourism Concern does reasearch and campaigns about socially and environmentally responsible travel. One recent area of studies were internships in developing countries.

 

 

Pro Poor Tourism is an initiative which has the goal to fight powerty by means of responsible tourism.

 

 

Sustainable Travel International is an organisation which campaigns for responsible travel and which supports travel companies, hotels and individual travellers in their implementation of responsible travel policies.

 

 

 

Satirical essay about which stereotypes you have to use in order to write a successful book about Africa.

 

 

The RAA Brandenburg has a fine collection of materials on Tanzania and Zanzibar. There are even books such as "Paukwa - tales from Zanzibar" (in German and Swahili) and "With fire and spice - a journey through the culinary culture of Zanzibar", the complete PDF download. The books can be ordered in print form and the proceeds go to the funding of libraries in Zanzibar.