“Behind this great ideal lies an issue of principle. Our efforts to help someone raise himself to a higher standard of living are the most effective and the more valued proportionately as we become personally and genuinely involved. In this way, and this way only, we begin to see ourselves as partners in a common struggle; he who confronts me in the weakness of his need, and I, who possess what he lacks and to whom he is looking. Not I, the giver, and he, the receiver, but us together, partners working towards the same-essential-goal. To achieve this at all levels and in a myriad different ways until ultimately it embraces the entire human family is the greatest and most urgent task that faces us all today.”
Leonard Cheshire
(7 September 1917 – 31 July 1992)
