“Right now, Ignio is just an undergraduate student journal. However, our long term goal remains the same as the people who started this initiative: building a community for people to talk about international development issues.”
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The event explored a diverse range of issues including racism, socio-economic subjugation, populism, slacktivism and language rights through an equally diverse spread of mediums from videography to poetry.
Among the general population, voluntourism has a positive connotation in the sense that rather than just having fun, people are also making an effort to help others. But among people who study the field or are experts in the area of international development, there’s a lot more skepticism.
