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Manual
A toolkit for critical European volunteering
organisations and Global Education practitioners
1. European volunteering organisations have to make
colonial history and global injustices stemming from it
the primary topic in a mandatory critical and anti-colonial
preparation of their volunteers.
2. European volunteering organisations have to make an
intense evaluation with volunteers whom they do send to
the Global South to give space for reflecting their
experiences from an anti-colonial perspective.
3. European volunteering organisations have to speak out
about global power imbalances through awarenessraising actions and advocacy in Europe.
4. Most importantly, European volunteering organisations
have to become aware of racism and neocolonialism
within their own structures and partnerships.
Colonial attitudes are a problem for European volunteering organisations
As volunteering organisations in the Global North, we
constantly get approached by people with naive, colonial
mindsets and we sometimes struggle in supporting the
transformation of these mindsets into ones of global justice.
How can we make volunteers reflect on the colonial power
structures that are behind their ideas of “development” and
“help”? How can we make them lose their unconscious or
even conscious imperial and white supremacist approaches,
seeing countries in the Global North as superior to those in
the Global South? How can we make them ask themselves
why in some places of the world “help” is needed and how
that is connected to their own lives? How can we transform
white supremacy into solidarity for global justice and antiracism?
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http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/3250
This tool is for
Youth and volunteer activists
and addresses
Anti-Racism
It is recommended for use in:
European Voluntary Service
The tool was created by
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The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Viktoria Grivina (on 22 September 2022)
and last modified
26 May 2022
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