Type of Media
Social-impact documentary
Project Director
Daniela Kon
Date Founded
2006
Mission Statement
- To critically explore “Voluntourism”, the latest innovation in the non-profit world, which has great potential for “doing good” and harm
- Furthering a dialogue for more responsible aid initiatives and allow audiences to rethink the nature of giving and their individual potential to be activists for sustainable change
- To show the conditions and circumstances that affect the lives of Cambodians today and raise questions about the way the international community aids and/or perpetuates the situation
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Project Summary
The documentary Changing the World on Vacation (Deeda Productions) follows the grassroots NGO PEPY in Cambodia who built a school for 540 children in a rural village and financially sustains this project through Volun-tourism (the controversial trend in the non-profit world that merges adventure tourism and humanitarian aid work).
Changing the World on Vacation defies what we think we know about humanitarian aid efforts.
It posts a challenge to the way NGOs perform, calls for imperative transparency in the non-profit world and will be a vital catalyst for discussions in households, classrooms, political and community forums worldwide.
It exposes the moral complexity and boundaries of sustainability and will allow citizens and policymakers to re-think their social responsibility and individual potential to “make a difference,” and help to reformulate more effective strategies for lasting social and environmental changes in the future. |
