Note:  This is a beginning to the preface to Aid Worker Voices. Smiles came across her face as she was reading I have spent the last week or so traveling with a few students and colleagues from our university.  We are here doing our school’s version of ‘engaged learning’ which in our case ends up being a fairly thoughtful version of development-lite.  Having listened to the students and to my colleagues meeting and talking with community partners -in this case organized by Habitat for Humanity-International, Zambia- I can say with conviction that our whole party clearly understands that development work is infinitely messy, complicated on many political, cultural and interpersonal levels, almost necessarily moves at a glacial pace and, at the end of the day, you can never be certain that intended changes have ended up a net positive, all factors considered. As a layover break between my work in Zambia and … Continue reading Smiles came across her face as she was reading