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Notes from the field

A friend, in a letter from Mozambique, writes about 2 years of life in Rwanda, Zambia, and Malawi:
I have been silent for close to 340 days. This is not that I did not want to share, but I think it is because I felt that I had nothing worth sharing. When you live in a place for a number of years, the strange becomes normal, the amazing becomes ordinary, and the unusual becomes common place.

Meeting after meeting I met people who themselves were passionate for development and the benefit of people in their own countries and communities:
  • a man in Northern Malawi who had operated a food security program in 5 districts for 8 years without any funding

  • a husband and wife couple in Central Malawi who had given up civil servant jobs in the early 1980’s to start a community based farming project and have transformed their valley from a dry, infertile wasteland to a 20 hectare oasis;

  • a group of gentlemen in central Zambia who were in the process of setting up a small corn grinding mill and vegetable garden to generate money to run several development projects in their community
And these stories represent only a small sample of people I came into contact with.

How could I not love this place?

How could I not have hope for the future?
You can read more about his work here.

August 9, 2007 | 11:08 AM Comments  0 comments

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