leafplant wrote:
Dude... how could you not be depressed. That is a seriously challenging situation to be in.
Are you at least making progress, doing good - that sort of thing? Try and find the positives otherwise the negatives will drown you.
It's just frustrating. One of the ten poorest countries of the world, people don't realize it, 95% of the people are farmers, 30% of their food is imported... Hell the last three months the only rice [the staple] I was able buy was USAID Pakistani rice. It's illegal to sell. But there's no other food. And the society is just used to the environment providing.
And s**t like "capacity building". Really? NGOs have been doing this for years. Have they really not built any capacity? Same with sensibilization.
OK, AIDS and Malaria are huge problems. But so are Chinkgunya and Dengue fever (and other STDs [Syphilis rate in my area was over 50%!] Malaria bed nets need to be retreated every two years. Are we going to finance this for eternity? Conservation groups replant with acacia. It's not endemic. It;s not invasive, it's good for wood and fuel, but it isn't supporting wildlife. In five years f*****g conversationalists on satellites see "OH! We have a 2 percent growth in rainforest!) get bonuses, and not realize that those trees are fuel woods that don't support local wildlife and will get down soon.
Yeah. Hahaha. I'm a bottle of optimism!
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