Thank you Oxfam3 min read

Today. Today was supposed to be like any other day I guess. Get up, go to work, get on with my latest peace building assignment and then go home. Today I was supposed to have some faith in humanity, faith that there is a significant amount of people trying to do well. Today was supposed to be a normal day. But the world has other plans for us, it is a common theory and belief. That some higher power or being has put us on a path and that no one is actually in control of what they do on a day-to-day basis, life sometimes just gets in the way so to say.
Today. Today I read “Top Oxfam Staff Paid Haiti Survivors for Sex” plastered over the Daily Telegraph. Can this be true? In this cruel and nasty world has someone really committed this crime? In today’s current climate, should I be shocked? In small Times New Roman letters it follows “People may have been underage”. Today we know that when they say “may have been”, they definitely were. Today it has been revealed that Top Oxfam staff paid Haiti survivors for sex who were definitely underage.
I thought Donald Trump was bad, I thought Theresa May was bad at Brexit, I thought the Taliban were bad for bombing people. I did not think that peace keepers and charity workers were this bad. Today I face the truth that what they teach me in my international relation classes about people being inherently bad could be true. At the end of the day, today, top Oxfam staff paid Haiti survivors for sex.
Today as I look to my future as a potential security advisor, human rights advocate, peace keeper, peace builder, today I ask why? Are my teachers, guest lecturers, classmates, friends and family so different from you? Today there has been another case of abused power. Today there has been another exploitation of an already fractured community. Today there is another lack of basic human decency. Today it has touched my heart and splintered it into a million pieces.
Today I am angry, because not only have you lacked the basic professionalism and human decency. Today you abused people, your power and the faith of the country that donates to you every day. Today when you have broken the trust and relationship of people who needed it the most, today I am really angry. Today we now have to prove that when we say we want to help, to do the basic human thing, to try make positive change in the world, something clearly you, Oxfam, do not understand, today we have to prove ourselves a little bit more.
But tomorrow I will say thank you Oxfam, because you have just inspired thousands of people to be different. To try harder. Today I am angry, and today like many others, we will turn our anger, hurt, frustration, blatant outright shock, we will turn it into something positive. So thank you Oxfam. And on behalf of a lot of good people, we are sorry Haiti.