Ответ:

1. In the past, volunteer projects lasted several weeks or months and were mainly for students or qualified people, such as nurses.

2. Currently, however, there are many short-term volunteer vacations for almost all interests and age groups, including family vacations. Instead of swimming in the hotel's pool or sunbathing on the beach, you can go to South Africa to study rhinos, work in the elephant sanctuary in Thailand, or help with construction in Latin America.

3. Children can participate by performing simple tasks, such as cleaning beaches, planting trees, or simply spending time working with local children.

4. Meeting people from all over the world and getting to know different cultures, they learn to consider their problems in the future, especially if they are used to an easy consumer lifestyle. They learn that annoying things in their daily lives, such as housework or homework, are nothing compared to the problems that people from poorer countries face every day.

5. Volunteers carefully researched their holidays and choose a project that would really benefit the local community.

6.Voluntourists believe that they make a positive difference by bringing money to local communities and by helping with development projects, but critics argue that voluntourists lack the skills and the time to really understand the problems and make a difference. What's more, if people are working all the time, they aren't spending money on tourist activities and this is bad for local economies. That's why it's important that voluntourists research their holiday carefully and choose a project that will really benefit the local community.