Harmful Consequences of the White Savior Complex

I served the poor and destitute, hungry and sick, in 15 cities and on five continents. I worked side by side with Mother Teresa's nuns in the slums of Calcutta, sat with the homeless on the streets of Cape Town, fed starving children in the rebel-infested forests of South Sudan.

You see, though I had the best of intentions to help the least of these in far flung, exotic locations around the globe, I was driven by the idea that those I was trying to serve were in need of rescue from people who looked like me — people who were white, Western, and Christian.