We need a fundamental shift in the way we think about international development. We need to think of poor people not as vulnerable but capable. We need to think of it not as a billion mouths to feed but two billion hands to engage. There needs to be a shift in the way we practice international development, where we’re empowering people to be the creators of their future not the recipients of our thoughts of what we think their future should be.
Amy B. Smith, founder of MIT’s D-Lab, during the 2011 Wilson Lecture at Wellesley College
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