Times of transition and uncertainty are inevitable. The ideal way of getting through these times is through a balance between acceptance of this inevitability, and taking responsibility and action for getting past it- based on strong vision for the future. Right now is hungry season in Malawi. The time of year between the rainy and [...]
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Get Your Focus Straight and Orchestrate Fate
Posted in Development Thoughts, Engineers Without Borders Work, Updates, tagged Africa, Human Development, Malawi, Poverty on February 14, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Respect to My Blogging Brothers and Sisters from EWB
Posted in Development Thoughts, Engineers Without Borders Work, Updates, tagged Africa, International Development, Malawi, Travel on January 18, 2012 | 2 Comments »
If you have your own blog, you probably know that you can choose to see all the statistics from the traffic that comes to your website. It’s pretty interesting to look at all the available stuff, like what types of internet searches have led people to your site, or even where in the world the [...]
What Have I Accomplished in Malawi?
Posted in Development Thoughts, Engineers Without Borders Work, Updates, tagged Africa, Human Development, International Development, Malawi on January 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
(This is the third part in a series of posts around a single story and event. The previous part is here) “In 2010, millions of Kwacha worth of funds went missing from a Water and Sanitation project in Malawi.”… …“The police had been informed, arrests made, lawyers hired, legal proceedings set in place, and District [...]
6 Months of My Work Completely Lost?
Posted in Engineers Without Borders Work, Updates, tagged Africa, Human Development, International Development, Malawi on December 15, 2011 | 5 Comments »
(This is the first in a series of posts around a single story and event) In 2010, millions of Kwacha worth of funds went missing from a Water and Sanitation project in Malawi. The project funds were supposed to be used by the local government to improve the lives of rural Malawians, at the same [...]
Projectized Sustainability
Posted in Development Thoughts, Engineers Without Borders Work, tagged Human Development, International Development, Poverty, Sustainability on November 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A big buzzword in the development world for the past several decades has been “sustainability”. It’s the basic concept that the effects of an initiative to improve the lives of people in developing countries will last long after the initial money for that initiative has dried up, and after all the people who thought it [...]
"Give me money!": The Battle Against Handouts
Posted in Development Thoughts, Engineers Without Borders Work, tagged International Development, Poverty on November 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Imagine a place where there have been decades and billions of dollars spent on trying to bring people out of poverty. Where the money donated in good-will by millions of people from developed nations is spent, and where thousands of people have traveled from across the world to give their assistance, without asking for any [...]
The only thing certain, is uncertainty.
Posted in Development Thoughts, Engineers Without Borders Work, Updates, tagged Africa, International Development, Malawi, Travel on June 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What is development work like? The answer to this question is from my very limited experience and perspective, but I thought it would be an appropriate time to tackle it. An appropriate time because after several delays and uncertainties, I’m finally in the District of Kasungu, where my official longer-term placement will be. It’s seems [...]
So what am I doing here?
Posted in Engineers Without Borders Work, tagged Africa, International Development, Malawi, Travel on March 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A pretty important question to ask myself while I’m here, and of course a question that a lot of people probably have for me. This first week I’ve pretty much just been a special kind of tourist, so at this point I can only really talk about what other EWB people are doing here. In [...]
