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An Apology
One of the things that is important to us here at Enough is to acknowledge when we make a mistake, and with the help of the blogosphere we often get some help in this regard. A recent blog post I wrote about distributing some basketball jerseys in the Djabal refugee camp in Chad was flagged by Alanna Shakih as violating some basic principles of good humanitarian practice. I agree. The t-shirt distribution was not well thought out, and I should have better consulted with area relief experts before undertaking something such as this. In hindsight, we should have worked more closely with our NGO counterparts to ensure a more organized and equitable distribution system or alternatively, we should not have distributed the jerseys. For that I apologize, and it is not a mistake we will make again.
Alanna was also quite tough on my word choices in the post and suggested that I was somehow dehumanizing the refugees. I recognize that my word choices in the blog post may have been poor, but I strongly reject the notion that I see the Darfuri refugees in Chad as anything but fellow humans. It has been almost 16 years since my family fled Sudan as refugees because of the North-South conflict, and I know full well the direct and lasting cost of war in Sudan. My past and my personal convictions have always pushed me to do more, not less for the people of Sudan. With that being said, we welcome constructive criticism, and will do better in the future.
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Thank you for this thoughtful response; I updated my blog post to include a link to it.
I could see this being a valuable classroom case for teaching students involved in international aid and development work.
After all, your situation is a tiny little microcosm of the bigger allocative dilemmas that are so common: We come to communities with the wrong resources in hand. We have too few of them, which can aggravate existing inequities. And despite bringing not enough of the wrong resources, we still need to walk away with nice cheery photo ops for the annual report to keep the funding agencies happy.
Basketball jerseys or food aid - same underlying structure to the problem. I think it would be a useful exercise in a classroom in a development studies course.
Bork,
I don't think this is a teacher moment for anyone. It is humiliating especially to me as an African.
Also I want to constructively call out the person who did this. I am guessing she is African because only Africans would view this in the way that she did--but she has repented. I hope it is genuine but it does say a lot about the way Africans think of each other
Stella, I know your heart, and it is beautiful!!
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