Africa screams
Oct. 13th, 2006 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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singing_phoenix enters the homestretch of her sojourn in Kenya working for CDC's Global AIDS Program, I have been listening to a series of enlightening—and appalling—reports by National Public Radio's Jason Beaubien, who has spent the past four years in Africa reporting for NPR on the serious social and economic problems the sub-Saharan region faces. The entire series, which ran on NPR's Morning Edition program and concluded today, is available in streaming audio here.
I knew things were bad for the people there, but I had no idea they were this bad. And the really frustrating part is that some of the things we in the developed nations have been doing in a well-meaning attempt to help may actually be worsening the situation. Give it a listen...and if you have any ideas that might really help, post them here.
singing_phoenix enters the homestretch of her sojourn in Kenya working for CDC's Global AIDS Program, I have been listening to a series of enlightening—and appalling—reports by National Public Radio's Jason Beaubien, who has spent the past four years in Africa reporting for NPR on the serious social and economic problems the sub-Saharan region faces. The entire series, which ran on NPR's Morning Edition program and concluded today, is available in streaming audio here. I knew things were bad for the people there, but I had no idea they were this bad. And the really frustrating part is that some of the things we in the developed nations have been doing in a well-meaning attempt to help may actually be worsening the situation. Give it a listen...and if you have any ideas that might really help, post them here.
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Date: 2006-10-13 03:31 pm (UTC)