In a op-ed piece last year entitled “Cum Laude in Evading Bandits“, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff explained why college students shouldn’t let the possibility of being victimized deter them from visiting the developing world. He says:
"The risks are minimal compared with the wonders of spending time in a small village. So take a gap year, or volunteer in a village or a slum. And even if everything goes wrong and you are robbed and catch malaria, shrug it off — those are precisely the kinds of authentic interactions with local cultures that, in retrospect, enrich a journey and life itself."
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