Change a Life, Change your Own: Child Sponsorship, the Discourse of Development, and the Production of Ethical Subjects

“Change a Life, Change Your Own is a long-overdue adult discussion about how child sponsorship, a spectacularly successful fundraising tool, infantilizes both donor and recipient, turning good intentions into paternalism and reinforcing stereotypical Western ideas about helplessness and hopelessness in developing countries.” - Ian Smillie, author of The Charity of Nations, Freedom from Want, and Diamonds

“Change a Life. Change Your Own.” “For less than a dollar a day.” “For the cost of one...