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Even in the most rural areas, we find modest houses full of satellite dishes. While most would consider this a remote village where poverty is extreme, these people still manage to have certain necessities. There is always the discussion about poor families spending money on weddings, tv, and sugared food in stead of healthy meals, clean water, or other preventative health measures. Development professionals find that living a well-rounded life is also important for these communities.
Yep. Even in North America, there is an ascribed (and false) assumption that people who are poor don’t get to have nice things, or frivolous things - if they do, they’re either wasteful or not really poor. But poverty ain’t simple, people aren’t rational beings, and poor people don’t deserve satellite tv or Jolly Ranchers any less than the rest of us. That’s a viewpoint that always gets our goat. (Not to mention pot, meet kettle.)
(Source: hiptipico)
This is an incredibly brave TEDx talk by David Damberger from Engineers Without Borders Canada about the nature of aid and the importance of recognizing, publicizing, and learning from aid failure. Dave now works for Ethical Ocean, but here he discusses his experience overseas and EWB’s current work in Malawi to illustrate some of the idiotic failures happening in international development and how they can be avoided.
This is important.
(Source: ted.com)
- From a series of 11 tweets by novelist Teju Cole on the #firstworldproblems meme
HT @SolarSister via The Atlantic
(via tumblingfromthecave)
(Source: The Atlantic, via professorbutterscotch)
Trade between the two countries is modest, totalling just under $15 million in 2010. Canadian exports (primarily used clothing) were worth just over $11 million, while imported Ugandan goods (primarily vanilla beans, coffee, tea and cobalt) totalled $3.7 million.
For anyone who had questions about the impact of second hand clothing on recipient countries, the fact that the majority of Canada’s exports to Uganda are used clothing is telling in many ways.
Emphasis added.
HT @TMSRuge
Telling and effed-up. New rallying cry: “trade, not SWEDOW.”
A telling example of the inequality in global trade relationships.
(Source: canadainternational.gc.ca, via professorbutterscotch)
Engineers Without Borders CEO George Roter’s TEDx talk on ‘Redefining Poverty.’ We like the emphasis on using both your head and your heart to connect to a problem.
(Source: youtube.com)
Scott Gilmore of PDT (via tumblingfromthecave)
Preach, bossman.
(Source: buildingmarkets.org, via tumblingfromthecave)
