Doing ourselves out of a job?
1 December 2007
Alliance magazine
I remember talking to the Women’s Institute in Youlgreave, a tiny English village, on a cold, wet night in October 1990 about Village Aid, a new NGO I had established to work in The Gambia. In the course of the talk I no doubt said ‘Our role is to do ourselves out of a job’. Naive? Perhaps, but I meant it then and I still truly believe that a white person working in the Global South has every reason to constantly question their role there. So as I prepare now to help close down Allavida, the organization I helped set up just over six years ago, it quite simply seems to be the right thing to do.
