2CHANGE MANAGEMENT AND OXFAM SCANDALworld. Tropical neurasthasia, identified as a condition emerging from the onerous nature offieldwork in the humid climate and deprivation from the requisite leisure in life. Therefore, itwas argued that sex with the native was a respite from the demanding work schedule(Kempadoo). This kind of an understanding embedded in the colonial ideology shiftedthe burden on the victims and external factors rather than shaming the perpetrators.This underscores on the confluence between masculinity and racial superiority that haveinformed the contemporary state of humanitarian work. The mainstream representation of theHaiti incident is conflated with problems. The under-age victims were labelled as childprostitutes instead of labelling the white aid workers as sexual offenders for having sex withunderage girls. Blaming the women in the countries of Haiti, Chad, Liberia amongst othersamounts to a myopic understanding about the magnitude of the issue (Aid charities ordered toimprove standards following Oxfam scandal). For women deprived of basic amenities inconflict prone zones, any opportunity to earn their food becomes an imperative. Therefore,this is a trap for these women and an opportunity to purchase pleasure by the aid workers inthe guise of social work. Instead of gaining a deeper insight into the ordeals and lifeworld ofthese women and not busting the unequal, exploitative network of relationship that isemerging, there is a bird’s eye view of the situation (Haiti suspends Oxfam GB operations).People all over the world are conditioned to believe that these influential organizationsare operating on a moral vacuum. The recent media outrage and uproar from the public ismore about the money of the British taxpayers going to waste rather than addressing thegenuine cause of the victims (Hornstein). Earlier, there has been a spate of sex scandals thatemerged in the limelight but those were short-lived, thus highlighting the biased, unfair andvested interests of the civil society and the British citizens.

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