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When Your Humanitarian Work Becomes Another Form of Colonialism

I started a microfinance organization to help women in rural Kenya but now I realize I'm just another white savior making myself feel better while perpetuating the same systems I thought I was fighting against.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between good intentions and actual impact reveals the complexity of power dynamics in development work.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Microfinance — small loans and global poverty?”

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