I wonder what the author thinks can be done to improve volunteerism? Here in the Philippines I met a troop of British deaf-assistance volunteers, visiting for

I wonder what the author thinks can be done to improve volunteerism? Here in the Philippines I met a troop of British deaf-assistance volunteers, visiting for three months, who don't know sign language and happily admit their own uselessness. Clearly this is suboptimal. But the only solution he presents in the piece - make money and give it to NGOs to hire professionals - sounds, well, not exactly surprising coming from a grant writing consultant. The authors of books like Dead Aid [1] and White Man's Burden [2] would have a few research-backed criticisms of what his suggested approach does to NGOs' effectiveness. I was hoping to find some in-trade NGO hacks for travel volunteerism, or Doctors Without Borders for Everything, but without any new approach presented, this piece is just complaining about a pretty obvious problem. ------------------- [1] Dead Aid https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6184317-dead-aid https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6184317-dead-aid [2] White Man's Burden https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33513.The_White_Man_s_Burden https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33513.The_White_Man_s_Bu...