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Foreign Aid Workers Live Like Kings in Rwanda?

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Posted by: CareTaker on July 5, 2007 Under: Africa, Editor's Pick, Rwanda



Does your impression of foreign aid workers in Africa resonate with that of the Rwanda-based francophone blogger Les aventures du Civiliste Guillaum? His  – conveyed via a post titled:”ONG, etc…” – has been translated into English on Global Voices titled – Rwanda: foreign aid workers who live like kings. Excerpt:

In Rwanda, we have some friends who work in NGOs or at the United Nations. They live more or less like kings, removed from the population, they spend most of the day at the office…But how can they hope to understand the reality that the people you want to help when they themselves live in this way?

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