In this day and age, we should develop a new value and language common to all humanitarian organisations: both faith-based and non-faith based. However, very recently I have heard words which I believed forgotten in this day and age and in the humanitarian context. Those words are converting, proselytising, etc.
In my own view, the vulnerable people need to be protected and helped, from a neutral point of view. Faith and politics need to be separated from humanitarian work. Humanitarianism is not about what we need to do. On the contrary, it’s about what people need. It’s not about our right as NGOs, but about people’s right to the service their community needs most.
Let us call all of us value-based organisations, and share a common ground for helping the ones who we work for: our beneficiaries.
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