tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930429171702231097.post548557479292810636..comments2023-10-11T04:11:00.792-07:00Comments on The Acacia Group - Socially Responsible Leadership: Why We Should Stop Running to Help Developing Nations....and Start Paying AttentionPenny Lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16972306145988504642noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930429171702231097.post-12530526768361144652010-04-17T10:58:56.576-07:002010-04-17T10:58:56.576-07:00I can appreciate the need to change from "We ...I can appreciate the need to change from "We are experts" to "I have something to learn from you". That was a change we have made at PEPY, and it took us some time realize how ethnocentric we were to think we could come in and "help". There are still very often conversations I have with colleagues where we are debating the potential effects of our decisions, and when we have to remind ourselves to include the people who would be effected by the decisions in the conversation. With "aid" being such a debated academic topic, it is sometimes easy to get wrapped up in the philosophical arguments and forget that the philosophies and theories are a lot less important than the realities. We offer educational tours, which used to be more "volunteer tours" and we wrote more about our change in perspectives here, which relates to your post. http://bit.ly/c76oxUDaniela Papihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05907868361522734950noreply@blogger.com