“Slum tourism has its advocates, who say it promotes social awareness. And it’s good money, which helps the local economy. But it’s not worth it. Slum tourism turns poverty into entertainment, something that can be momentarily experienced and then escaped from. People think they’ve really “seen” something — and then go back to their lives and leave me, my family and my community right where we were before.” -Kennedy Odede, a Kenyan university student
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“Slum tourism has its advocates, who say it promotes social awareness. And it’s good money, which helps the local economy.

But it’s not worth it. Slum tourism turns poverty into entertainment, something that can be momentarily experienced and then escaped from. People think they’ve really “seen” something — and then go back to their lives and leave me, my family and my community right where we were before.”

-Kennedy Odede, a Kenyan university student

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    It reeks of the “reservations” in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
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    I’d hate to think I was involved in “poverty tourism” when I became my mother’s photographer during her “good deed run”...
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    And yet as the saying goes “out of sight out of mind”.” If people aren’t shown the results of our greed and power-plays...
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    finally. i’ve always had issues with this
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