What’s going on in the ‘international development’ sector when charities are found to have toxic cultures? And organisations which claim to be working to end poverty get embroiled in scandals about sexual abuse? …

I believe our sector replicates the same injustices we claim to tackle. Here’s how we can do better.

What would it look like if we brought our whole selves to our work in international development? To the pursuit of global justice? This is a question I’ve been asking a lot in the past few years. As a former INGO leader who has been exploring ways to bring more…

This article was inspired by an Insta post made a few weeks ago by the awesome Leyla Hussein. Do check out her work at www.leylahussein.com. There was a time in my life when I travelled a lot. I had a regional job in East Africa working on mental health and…

I see some of what is happening, in particular online, around ‘self-care’ as a commodification and the development of a kind of ‘self-care’ industry that sells us stuff so that we can meet a need that the ‘do-it-all’ culture around us is creating. To me this is a capitalistic notion…

The recent story about Oxfam’s handling of abuse that happened in Chad and Haiti feels like the #MeToo moment for the charity sector which we knew would come. We knew it would come because we know these kinds of abuse are everywhere. We (as a sector) are neither uniquely flawed…

Do you ever think you don’t have time to get help? It’s easier to do it yourself? You’re only one that can do it? The past few weeks in the community space I founded for women who want to make a difference without depleting themselves we’ve been talking about the…

It’s no particular secret that I’ve had to cure myself from a tendency to give away too much. Yep I’m the kind of person who finds herself feeling guilty about walking by someone asking for money in the street. …

My personal experience of ‘burning out’ some years ago as the Director of a small international charity started me asking questions about working to make a difference in the world and the ways in which we often find that this work is depleting and exhausting us. The more I have…