>>16561643I knew a tonne of girls who did this at my University. It is 100% for instagram bragging rights and virtue signalling, and makes the host company a lot of money.
They have to raise £10,000 or whatever from "charity donations" and "bake sales" and "marathon runs" in order to fund their trip. What really happens is they raise 1k begging for simp donations over the course of the year then get mum and dad to pay the rest.
Afterwards, they fly out to a safe touristy part of africa for two weeks; some intern lefty gives them seminars and lectures, they hike up kilamanjaro or some shit, then talk to some random black village kids and "build" a school or well under supervision from the camp leaders.
They get lots of photos and write in their diaries and come back "changed" people and brag to all of their friends for about a week until their friends get bored and move on, meanwhile the school they bulit is torn down to recycle materials for the next next group.
It's a very expensive holiday for naive middle class white kids, the niggers get paid to play along and the tour operator makes thousands per applicant.