How the “white-savior industrial complex” failed Liberia’s girls

An article by Abigail Higgins from Vox.

A founder with no history of NGO management or education, a board of directors with no experience in dealing with vulnerable children, a flagrant disregard for a code of conduct by its staff members – misgivings which were all overlooked by a western media too eager to hype up the “feel good” story of More Than Me, the NGO founded by American Katie Meyler.

But despite the constant pattern of negligence and flagrant rule breaking displayed by More Than Me…”Meyler’s story is emblematic of a larger rot within a sector of American philanthropy: the fetishization of young and inexperienced do-gooders setting out to change developing countries, regardless of whether they are actually qualified to do so.”

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