My D23 has a classmate like that. He and a few of his friends started a program in a Central American country (chosen because they had gone a great vacation there the previous year) and every year now they do a GoFundMe to raise money for them to travel there over summer vacation and run their program for local kids. Their parents are all quite wealthy and donate the vast majority of the funds that are ultimately raised…So it’s rich parents paying for yet another “voluntourism” scheme under the guise of community-based fundraising and grassroots “helping those less fortunate in the world”. I really hope colleges see through this nonsense.
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