The Trauma of Volunteering

"I think it's important when we discuss volunteering to honor how hard this kind of experience can be on people. Obviously the trauma associated with seeing people brutalised by the state and capital is not the same as being brutalised by state and capital yourself," he says. I asked an athlete to reflect a little on children's toys we found in a shelter when we were cleaning up the camp. "If they don't want to help you know, go be somewhere else I suppose."