Recovering Travel Junkie: Annika Phillips - Cape Breton, London, Uganda

We talked about Cape Breton and how it was growing up there. The sense of community is strong here because everyone knows each other. The Celtic Colours festival is a big 9 day music festival where the people of Cape Breton celebrate the trees changing color. She then volunteered in the mountains of Peru. She saw so much brokeness there working at an orphanage. She transitioned into the big city of London. She originally worked in Oxford and commuted to London. She also started a non-profit here called The Meraki Project. A non-profit focused on empowering South-Sudanese refugees to build traditional arts and crafts to fund their education. We also talked about the dangers of voluntourism and how that can be damaging to the people we serve. If your heart isn’t fully committed to serving others, then it can damage then, such as creating a White Savior complex. She recommends everyone to travel to experience and understand someone new.