Volunteering with children: A game of double standards?

Re-blogged from KickStart Ghana’s website. Written by their 2014 Volunteer Coordinator, Ruth Taylor. Let me ask you. How many times have you logged onto Facebook and been greeted with a newly-updated profile picture of one of your friends, volunteer-smile intact, affectionately cuddling a small, rather grubby-looking child, from an unknown African nation? Once? Twice? Too many times to recall? If you haven’t experienced it personally, you’ll probably be aware of the growing…