Collateral Damage of Good Intentions

Your savior complex is actually just a business transaction to the people you think you are saving.

In West Africa, locals saw us white workers as brancus, which basically means walking ATMs

and visa tickets. My neighbor Miranda played the long game and had a baby with a married development

worker to secure a financial link to Europe. It was working perfectly until another helper

decided to be the morality police and mailed a photo of the secret kid to the guy's wife

back home. I thought I was just taking nice pictures, but I accidentally

armed a grenade. Sometimes trying to give back just blows everything up.