On my sixth birthday, I remember being surrounded by gifts that could make me feel like a princess. Then the next thing I remember is my parents giving me a photo of a girl named Jasmine. He wore a red robe wrapped around his thin, dark-skinned body. My parents explained to me that she was born in Bangladesh on the same day I was born, but because her parents were too poor to give her a birthday present. When I asked why they were too poor, my parents replied that it was because of a cyclone that had destroyed her home and community, so they suggested a brilliant idea to help her; we became his sponsor family through World Vision. Since then, every birthday, my parents and I would go shopping for my gift and his gift, which made me feel good because I was helping someone, but I always wondered why his family was still poor and not still had a home after all these years since the disaster? Humanitarian aid. It “represents a commitment to support vulnerable host populations who have experienced a sudden emergency, requiring ongoing assistance to maintain or improve their quality of life” (Kopinak 2013). When I first learned about humanitarian aid, I believed it was the most meaningful thing to do because I could find a personal connection with Jasmine. However, in this course, I could find multiple reasons why Jasmine's family continued to suffer. When Sara Manos spoke about her adventurous experience in Africa, motivated by her passionate heart to help the “poor” Africans, I felt deep sympathy. Becoming an aid worker has been my lifelong dream, so when Sara cynically called humanitarian aid “The broken aid machine,” I was shocked. Although humanitarian aid aims at a universal goal: protecting relationships with the local grassroots while seeking a good balance between their roles. As ImageCat and Gem presented the effectiveness of their teamwork, I saw hope in the collaboration that can be achieved by different aspects of society such as businesses, governments, scholars and NGOs to save more lives. This course has covered the downsides and even dark sides of the disaster response industry, but now I am more confident than before. Since we have diagnosed the root of the failure of our humanitarian machine, we can now treat it and improve the system. The responsibility of humanitarian works is to help victims or survivors to be able to hope again. If we cannot find hope in our fragility, how can we help those in need to hope? As long as disasters occur, humanitarian works will not be completed and will be continuously criticized. But they will never stop bringing hope to those who need it.