Don’t sell yrlsoeuf too short There are PLENTY of examples of first world tourists doing exactly that. Without a clear plan for sustained, systemic change, though, most of the efforts do more harm than good. I know in our case, we had to face some very skeptical Africans who had been burned by well-meaning North Americans before. One of the things that illustrated this was that we were told not to give anything of value to the people we were working with, or to the children we saw. We were working with an organization that does teacher training and professional development. But if we show up with a lot of donated laptops, or give away digital cameras and the like, then the expectation is that we’ll always come bearing gifts. There were many cases, in Kenya especially, where the locals assumed that we were rich benefactors looking to give away money and expensive gifts to assuage our first world guilt. Apparently, we were paying for the sins of the mzungu (white people) who came before us.Whenever two cultures interact, they have an effect on one another. It’s just not always clear that the effect is the intended one, or even a positive one.Thanks for talking about this.

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