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...Everyone was so supportive of our efforts because the idea behind it is very meaningful,” Shi said...
...Development here seems to happen in enclaves—in the national parks, in secure mining areas, in fancy hotels for tourists. And even if these institutions really were meant to serve Tanzanians, as I said, there is a lot of power in the idea of defining what is better for other people...
...newcomer here, I shy away from the idea of helping or defining because I have no right to think I know what Tanzanians need or to think that I could provide it. Yet even though I am conscientious of this dynamic, I may never be able to completely escape the value system I grew up with, which has its own definition of poorness and its own call to action. Even the guilt I feel when my home-stay mama spends all day cleaning the house is itself a value statement. Guilt is an unconscious way of defining what I think...
...should be straight forward that studying abroad is for studying, but when your home-stay brother asks you for money to pay his school fees or your neighbor can’t afford malaria medicine, the line is suddenly blurred. It gets back to the idea of power and privilege...
...original idea of a CPR and first aid training day was to provide low-cost classes on a small scale, according to Natasa Kovacevic ’10, co-president of the Harvard Friends of the American Red Cross...