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Taking time to volunteer while on tour
Sat, Jun 27, 2009
The Straits Times

By Leow Si Wan

MEET a new breed of traveller called the voluntourist.

Charity organisations here are seeing more and more of the likes of Ms Goh Siang Hwee, a 25-year-old financial adviser who takes part in community improvement projects while visiting a country.

She has just returned from a 14-day Youth Expedition Project (YEP) to Cambodia, where she spent 10 days building toilets and mending roads and the remaining time touring the country.

 


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