Paul D. Coverdell World Wise Schools - Culture Matters

No Legs

"From the reports on file, it was obvious that we hadn't accomplished anything at all after ten years of Peace Corps running the community center in Sedhiou. We had a library with no books, a milk program with no milk, and a pre-school with no education taking place. As I looked around the region, other foreign aid programs were no better. There was an agricultural college with no students, no materials, and no instructors-of which the town officials were very proud! There was a Taiwanese agricultural mission to teach advanced farming methods, totally ignored by the farmers."

-PCV Senegal

Why do you think such projects don't get off the ground?

How would you approach a community project in order to get a different result?

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