Professional do-gooders, we are part of an industry built on the suffering of others, operating inside and perpetuating the extractive systems & societies we profess to “improve.”

How does the world change, if we won’t transform ourselves, let alone our organizations? /1

The society and the organizations within it inevitably (often unconsciously) reflect and reproduce each other, unless there are specific, sustained efforts to change practices and policies.

#globaldev #aid #NGOs #philanthropy #globalhealth #socent #impinv #healingsolidarity /2

White people within the sector, can do more to interrupt this harm:

We can make different hiring & promotional decisions.
We can get $ to people closer to the issues and get out of the way - with unrestricted core funding.
We can stop define "our" results. /3

White people can do our personal work, our healing work when it comes to anti-racism and decolonization as well.

And because we as individuals are only a small part of systems change, we necessarily have to do that work with others. /4

We have to be braver.

It’s not easy, and it’s possible...and it's worth it.

Join @maryannmhina and I for a pop-up practice group starting in May or June for "Getting Ourselves Together: How white people can show up for anti-racism in #globaldev: https://healingsolidarity.org/getting-ourselves-together/ /5