My 17-year-old daughter is supposed to be going to Tanzania for a month this summer, working in an orphanage with Projects Abroad. However my daughter has just had a talk at school about volunteering organisations and the dangers of ‘voluntourism’. Apparently Projects Abroad is an enterprise, not an NGO at all. The money the volunteers pay ( and it is a lot of money) doesn’t go to the projects, we were told. I would like to hear from anyone who has volunteered with them, or who knows about the subject…. So far we have only paid the deposit so we could back out, but we have booked and paid for the flights already (ourselves). Many thanks in advance….