Afghanistan- Click This Title
If you read all the way to the bottom, and are anything like me, you will be heartbroken by the final comments. But on the other hand, the girl who comments second to last is teetering in the balance- she wants to become a doctor, and never misses class and even saves up her money to buy as many books as she can (hm, its just not the same as when I dump a bunch of money on used books but still have lots left over for shoes...)The one that gets me is that though the aid has gone up to $10.5 Billion- the women still go uneducated, scraping together what little they can, the politics still remain in shambles and corruption reigns.
So... tell me again, who's responsibility is it to take care/charge of dispersing that money...?
I know MEDA is working in Kabul with (mostly) women entrepreneurs. As I post photos from our rural clients on MEDA Trust and see the stories from my unknown counterpart there in Afghanistan, I can't help but pray for the day to come faster that the program- and others like it- is expanded to the rural areas, as MiCredito is doing here. We have a new branch opening in Esteli in April. I have learned so much about how microcredit works on the ground through this time here in Nicaragua. And while -obviously since I am still working here- I see the value in it, I know that microfinanace certainly cannot save the world from poverty and hardship (oh whaaat!). But there is a lot more hope in opportunity than without.
When you are done reading that, read this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi
posted by Kiki @ 1:22 p.m.
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waiting for weekend photossssssssssssssssssssssssss and tales of monkey tails and loungings on the beaches. and if you don't post within the hour then i will be left to believe that you are LYING LYING LYING about any of these adventures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kiki, we need your advice: What is the number one tactic or trick for getting a complacent westerner like myself to pack up my well-cultivated sense of irony and start caring about developing nations?
There's a quote in the Grinch that says he "solves world hunger-tells nooooo one." I don't wanna be that.
If i knew the answer to your question, I don't think I'd have a job where I do right now.
Believe me, I'd be ok with unemployment.
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