Perhaps charities have their saints, but we shouldn’t turn a blind eye to the sinners | Sonia Sodha

The sector has always been self-serving, as well as attracting the genuinely committed

‘I’m not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner that keeps on trying,” Nelson Mandela told Rice University in 1999, a timely reminder that much of the good in our world is not the product of untainted virtue but of imperfect people who sometimes have very mixed motivations.

In the wake of revelations about sexual abuse at Oxfam, there has been public shock that what we know to have occurred in other walks of life could have been taking place in organisations with such noble aims as Oxfam.

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from Voluntary Sector Network | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2F0aYCh