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Category: Charity Gone Wrong

Incidents when well-meaning charity goes wrong due to disparities in power and wealth

The Sensitive Slum Experience

On March 14, 2018March 14, 2018 By strangerinaslumIn Charity Gone Wrong, Dishonest WealthLeave a comment

Peregrine and I are escorted into the slum by the employees of a world-renowned nonprofit. As we pull up in their SUV, the staff emphasizes that this is a “sensitive” area. They affect the word “sensitive” with an oddly ominous tone. The team had been working there for two years, and the project had a …

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