RE: Change is the Only Constant

[Natalie Dickinson]

Hey Dave

Sorry I've been so long sending you this email, I've been a bit harrassed recently and seemingly incapable of remembering to do anything I say I'm going to do!! Anyway, I've attached my review paper for your enjoyment :-) Also, here's the URL for that Millenium Villages website I was telling you about on the phone.
http://www.millenniumvillages.org/

I'm going to be in Malawi for 3 weeks now, yey!!! I'll be around from the 5th to the 26th November. Let me know what your plans are during this time, so we can arrange to spend some time together doing work-related things. I'd like to visit the projects with you and see what's going on, and anything else that you think it would be good for me to see/do.

Hope all's good with you, and i'll see you soon :-)))))

Nat xxx

PS. If you don't have adobe acrobat reader let me know and i'll send you a Word version of it

> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:21:54 -0700
> Subject: Change is the Only Constant
> From: boNGO...@gmail.com
> To: bongo-w...@googlegroups.com
>
>
> Muli Bwanji boNGO fans and supporters!
>
> As we all can see, the world is changing faster than ever and
> humanity's past mistakes are apparently catching up with us. Only in
> times of crisis, such as the current one of global finance, do the
> world's wealthiest realize that we are working with a very broken
> system. No longer can one ask the question: what is best for me? To
> answer this question, we must first ask what is best for everyone, and
> the answer holds our personal salvation as well as that of our planet,
> in addition to humanity's survival.
>
> This is in strong contrast to the trends our lives are pursuing--
> towards a society of independant individuals. We must admit, however,
> that our fates as individuals are wholly dependant on the survival of
> collective humanity, and that of the planet.
>
> As we have realized in the past decade, there are many negative
> effects on 'developing' cultures from the aid they receive, resulting
> in a growing gap between the global development extremes: the rich
> still get richer as the poor get poorer. We have always known at boNGO
> that education is the key element to positive cultural change, and
> that the rich have as much, if not more, knowledge to learn from the
> poor as they have to offer them. I honestly believe that rural
> Malawians are better prepared for a sustainable future than most
> urbanites around the world. They are at least much better prepared to
> feed themselves!
>
> We are in an age of technology where the minds of humans are connected
> across the planet. Social and professional networking websites allow
> humanity as a whole to align a common vision to answer our penultimate
> questions. The biggest challenge to creating this vision is allowing
> the 'poor and undeveloped' cultures of the world access to the
> discussion. As technology expands ever rapidly it is an inevitability
> that the global population will be connected via the internet, without
> exception.
>
> I look forward to the day when we have a true global democracy, and on
> that note if you ever have the opportunity to vote please please
> please share in the decisions that affect you, me, and all of
> humanity!
>
> Peace, love, hope, truth, and happiness for all of us,
>
> David Leflar
> Managing Director
> boNGO Worldwide
>