My siblings and I inherited money from our grandmother and we want to honor her by funding microloans in her home village, but we can't agree on the structure. My brother wants to go through an established organization, my sister wants us to manage it directly, and I worry we're all just trying to feel better about having money while people there have so little.
More people experience this than they realize.
Shared grief and privilege create competing visions of how to honor someone's memory through financial aid.
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