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When humanitarian work perpetuates the problems it addresses

I work for a humanitarian organization that takes money from governments whose policies create the crises we're trying to solve, and I'm starting to think we're just managing suffering instead of ending it.

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You're recognizing how systems of aid can become systems of control that maintain rather than transform power structures.

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