The term "Ya Basta" ("Enough! Stop!") has been used to capture the frustration of teachers who are being required (through political leveraging) to implement the intervention program labeled as EGRA (formerly Early Grade Reading Assessment and now Early Grade Reading Activity) in schools in their countries. Historically, the Spanish phrase "Ya Basta" arose as an expression of resistance against continued forms of racial and ethnic oppression both in the Latino community in the United States and across Latin America. This expression embodies the intentions behind this brief, although concerns reach far beyond Latin America into all corners of the world. Yes, there is a problem, and the problem today is EGRA. The truth is that the international aid enterprise profits from these kinds of endeavors regardless of the content, the outcomes, or the collateral damage. This brief proposes an alternative approach to economic assistance that humanizes the effort to work collaboratively as partners around literacy development. This brief frames the International Literacy Association's vision for a future around some of the things the donor communities must stop doing and a new direction to take that will move us forward on a new path.