We at Voluntario Global have proved that much can be done when organizations implement consistent projects. We facilitate a greater understanding between volunteers and locals.
There are clearly no magical solutions. When there is social inequality and high unemployment, there is often poverty and general misunderstanding between different socioeconomic classes. Nevertheless, it is possible to progress, if everyone is willing to help. So, if you have come this far, this is a positive beginning already.
The first task is obvious: to educate, to keep children in school, and to make people believe a better world is not a far off destiny, but something to be built.
The second task starts right now: to show volunteers that they can be agents of transformation, and they can already teach and promote social change.