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Date Posted: 12:46:04 02/15/00 Tue
Author: Anonymous
Subject: I am tired of excuses.
In reply to: 's message, "Nonsustainable solution?" on 11:51:25 02/15/00 Tue

You comments are fine. I don't know the answers either but think about something here. When all those thousands of volunteers were there (myself being one of them several different times) why didn't the people pick up at least the basics of what we were trying teach them? I didn't go there to do anything "For" the people of PNG. I went there to teach them how to do it themselves. And while there I was always greeted with much appreciation for my time and services. We were constantly being monitored by government officials who were also there to learn. So after we left, how come everything was trashed and you went right back to the old ways of doing things? Some one stated in an earlier forum that one Peace Corps worker had told him by the time he had figgured out what was going on, his contract was up. That is true. On my first assignemnt to PNG I was brief about the projects of my predecessor. There was a several month gap between of his departure and my arrival. By the time I got there everything that he had accomplished had been undone and stripped. I had to start all over again. I raised so much hell with village leaders about the diappearence of 4,000 feet of irrigation pipe that my superiors threatened to tell the villagers to burn my ass at the stake if I didn't shut up. It took me the next nine months to beg and plead with suppliers in the US to replace the stolen pipe and the pumps. I finally got the new supplies and spent the next year setting it back up and showing the villagers how to use this equipment during the dry season. Didn't I just recently read that the people of PNG were suffering from a home grown food shortage because of a dought? What do you want to bet that some SOB stole all the equipment and other crap I had begged from others after I left and that damn flat hill top crop land is still as dry as a bone with all the water they would even need just 500 meters down a hill but no way to get it to the top?

Now tell me who's fault this is????

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