ABSTRACT
Lilla Watson, the Australian Aboriginal activist, has been credited with saying, “If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”1 This statement demonstrates the empowering belief that many developing communities hold: Solutions are best discovered within the collective power of the community. There may be a role for external partnership, but there is no tolerance for notions of salvation.
