Hoping to Help The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering 1st Edition by Judith N Lasker ISBN 1501700103 9781501700101

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ISBN 10: 1501700103
ISBN 13: 9781501700101
Author: Judith N Lasker

Overseas volunteering has exploded in numbers and interest in the last couple of decades. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people travel from wealthier to poorer countries to participate in short-term volunteer programs focused on health services. Churches, universities, nonprofit service organizations, profit-making “voluntourism” companies, hospitals, and large corporations all sponsor brief missions. Hoping to Help is the first book to offer a comprehensive assessment of global health volunteering, based on research into how it currently operates, its benefits and drawbacks, and how it might be organized to contribute most effectively. Given the enormous human and economic investment in these activities, it is essential to know more about them and to understand the advantages and disadvantages for host communities.

Hoping to Help The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I. The Sponsoring Organizations

1. Who Sponsors International Medical Missions?

2. The Activities and Goals of Sponsoring Organizations

Part II. The Volunteers

3. Becoming a Volunteer

4. What Leads to Volunteering, What Volunteering Leads To

Part III. The Host Communities

5. The Best and the Worst: Host Perspectives on Volunteer Programs

6. Benefits to Host Communities

7. “First, Do No Harm”: The Unintended Negatives for Host Communities

Part IV. Principles for Maximizing the Benefits of Volunteer Health Trips

8. Mutuality and Continuity: Two Pillars of Effective Programs

9. Community-Focused Research

10. Programmatic Focus

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