Newsletter: Issue No.1_April 2025
In this edition of the LPDev newsletter we’ll bring you insightful articles, exciting opportunities, upcoming events, and valuable resources, and initiatives driving change in the sector.
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LPFDev Initiatives
Ethical Volunteering Workshop - June 2025
🌍 Exciting news! We’re hosting FREE Ethical Volunteering Workshops on the White Savior Complex and Volunteering Abroad (online + in-person in Nairobi, Kenya) this June! Sign up now! https://forms.gle/Jh4yUMiQ1etiURDy8
Beyond Aid Narratives
🌍 Are you passionate about ethical volunteering? Do you want to move beyond traditional aid narratives and truly understand the impact of international volunteering? Our Beyond Aid Narratives Virtual Experience is designed to challenge outdated models of engagement and promote ethical, community-centered approaches.
Join our interactive virtual experience, where we unpack the power dynamics in international volunteering, explore the impact of the White Savior Complex, and equip participants with the knowledge to engage in ethical and responsible global work. Whether you're a student, a professional, or part of an NGO, this experience will help you rethink your role in global development.
LPFDev Resource Corner
📝Article: Aid may be inherently racist and colonial, but altruism is not — that’s a cause for hope
✍🏾Blog: A call for proposals, but only if you are from the “right part” of the world
📚Books: The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy
🛠️Toolkit: African Philanthropy Forum - Volume 1 Toolkit for African Philanthropists
🎧Podcasts: Shifting the Power: Decolonizing Aid and Development
💻Webinar: How to be Anti-Racist in Aid
📢 To see more resources, check out our Resource Database
Featured
JOBS & VOLUNTEERING
Systemic Justice Roster - Europe | Remote | Ongoing
Membership Engagement Lead - Alliance for Feminist Movements | Flexible, Remote | US $72,267.00 | 11 April 2025
Administrative, Finance, and Logistics Officer - African Futures Lab | Nairobi, Kenya | 4 May 2025
Executive Director - Systemic Justice | Europe | €85,000 to €100,000 | 5 May 2025
EVENTS
A Historical Imagination of the Future: Reparations, Restitution, and Black Women Across Africa and Its Diasporas: 10 April 2025
Synergi Abolition in Practice sessions: 14 April 2025 - This is a free, monthly, online, peer-led space for Black People and People of Colour * working toward mental health justice, racial justice, and abolition—whether through activism, advocacy, peer support, or community care. Grounded in intentional peer support principles, it’s a space for connection, reflection, and learning outside of harmful systems.
Black Lives Matter UK Festival: 19 July 2025- Black Lives Matter UK is preparing for our second Festival of Collective Liberation on Saturday 19th July. You can watch a video and read about last year’s festival here.
TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
Tackling inequality & oppression: Social Justice Collective - Move beyond EDI and towards anti-oppression in these facilitated and self led learning programmes to build an understanding of systems of oppression and privilege, to analyse how power operates in your organisation, and to set tangible commitments towards creating social justice.
ORGANISATION TO FOLLOW
Aid Re-imagined’s mission is to help usher the evolution of aid towards justice and effectiveness. It will do so through deep, radical, and evidence-based reflection and research. And its approach is unafraid to venture beyond the realm of development and humanitarianism, using insights from philosophy, economics, politics, anthropology and sociology, as well as management.
NEWS
Three experts on racial justice explain why reparations matter by Amnesty International UK
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