I found this interesting article online. I don't see myself as a slum tourist, but my mother says that we bring tea, copypaper, pens and candy to "pay" for our visit. After all, we are intruding on their school day when we come. The project in Destiny has been running for three years and most of the people living in the area have their kids in the school and knows that we help with a lot and are not just tourists. We visit the same place every time, so people there knows us. It is very sad though that tourist come to just get a tour of the slum and look at how people live there. I'm glad that they can make some money from it on the streets. I don't think slum tourism seems to be a nice thing to do and I hope they don't ruin the reputation of the people who goes there to help.
Article about slum tourism
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