Driving through Kenya

A stand against orphanage volunteering: a list of travel and volunteering organisations that do not support orphanage volunteering

Travel and volunteering organisations are increasingly recognising the problems with orphanages and orphanage volunteering

Many have never run orphanage volunteering programmes or orphanage tourist trips, others have decided to stop or are in the process of doing so.

Europe

*Members of the Year Out Group (UK). The Year Out Group announced: "Our organisation pledges that if we have not already done so, we will now inform our delivery partners that we will transition away permanently from offering or recommending volunteering roles in residential care settings by June 2019. We understand that our membership will be suspended and future renewal refused if we fail to adhere to this pledge.”

Australia

USA

Will you join us?

If you would like to add your organisation's name to this list, or would like advice on how to responsibly transition away from a relationship with an orphanage, please get in touch.