Travelers’ tips for interacting with kids in the developing world
Meeting local children is often a memorable part of a visit to the developing world. But the line between helping and hurting can be tricky to navigate.
Tagged: Southeast Asia
27 Feb
Why we travel: Finding the feeling of home in Cambodia
Join the Seattle Globalist tonight at Black Coffee Co-Op for a slideshow and stories of travel in Southeast Asia. Details here.
03 Dec
Vancouver native delivers soy milk for Myanmar’s malnourished
It almost sounds too good to be true. In remote areas of Myanmar, a portable soy milk machine that runs without electricity, is cheap and delivers life-saving proteins and vitamins to malnourished orphans. One family from Vancouver has made it their life’s work to keep the milk flowing.
17 Nov
Burmese reforms haven’t stemmed flow of refugees to Washington
President Obama is on his way to Burma (aka Myanmar) on Monday for a six hour visit that will be the first by any sitting US president in history. According to Reuters, in advance of the visit the Burmese government plans to release some 452 prisoners, some of them political prisoners who will be granted [...]
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