Hi all,
Next year me and a friend are going to south east asia to travel and to work.
But, we found something on the internet, but we aren't sure if it is good..
Can somebody help us?
this is the site we found
http://www.helpx.net/hostlist.asp?host_region=968&network=9
If you have any tips and tricks, they are very welcome!
Thankyou all
ow, and sorry for some English mistakes! ;-)
Groans and thinks "here we go again" but then, heroically, restrains himself. AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Hi there!
What do you want to
know about it?
If this can help you, we are doing helpx with my boyfriend since a couple of years now and we love it! We haven't done it yet in Asia or else than Australia but we're planning to 😊
It's a great website, awesome to meet and live with locals, give a hand and be able to visit the area!
The ones in Cambodia are unfortunately manely about hotels, bars etc but if you like that...go for it!
Do read this article in the NY Times first:
But activists say her story is part of a larger tale of deception meant to attract foreign money into impoverished Cambodia. Such duplicity, they say, has drawn some foreign donors into unwittingly perpetuating a system that keeps thousands of poor children with parents in orphanages for years.
Although some families send children because they cannot provide basic care, others are lured by the institutions’ promises that the children will receive a better education. But child advocates say the orphanages are often more intent on making money and too rarely make good on their promises.
Sébastien Marot, the director of Friends International, a charity that specializes in helping children in Cambodia and neighboring countries, said the organizations misrepresented themselves as orphanages because it helped them raise money. “An orphanage is an easy sell,” he said. “They are distorting reality so that they can attract more compassion and money.”
