Friday, February 10, 2006

What helkp the world gives to Uganda and its greatest human needs

I'd love to hear who you trust most in helping Uganda develop out of poverty and other crises. I've never been to Uganda but I have a youthful fcriend who spends most of his time thinking up twin projects between Sweden (his home) and Uganda (where he did a field project whilst at University)

My own nomination for deepest voice is Jon Snow of channel 4 tv. I don't often nominate media or famous people but Jon seems different. In his youth he did some sort of peace corps project in Uganda. Now about 30 years later, when there are world summits like the G8 meeting Blair hosted at Gleneagles in July 2006, Jon visits Uganda the previous week reporting the issues that the people of Uganda would like brought to the summit table. And some of them open up remarkably different conversations that the world's 8 most powerful men would deliberate - even when as Blair had decared this -and previously helped commission research for - was going to be Africa's summit.
If the internet's great gift to individual productivity and lifelong accomplishment is:
finding our own mentors through life and helping hi-trust people do likewise,

then the processes and choices of who we nominate as the most deeply caring and collaborative person about deep human contexts is important.

Let's rehearse this by discussing examples.