When helping others, your original intentions matter
Never, in the history of humankind, has there been such potential for unintended consequences of good intentions.Aid work, once the domain of a select few, has beendemocratised. It’s now the domain of many.
Three principles to helping people living in poverty
Principles connect your values to action. If we truly value compassion, empathy, and respect, then the work that we do in other countries should reflect this. But often, the principles we base our work upon are either wrong or unclear.So here are 3 basic principles which you can use to create more meaningful impact in the world around us.
The myth of the heroic expat leader
After close to a decade of working in developing countries, and founding an initiative in Cambodia, I realised I had fallen into a trap. I was perpetuating a myth: that change comes from the heroics of foreigners like myself. The reality couldn't be further from the truth.