Comments on: Poverty, part 2 http://www.pcmoldovann.com/archives/2005/09/08/poverty-part-2/ my life and times in Ukraine and Moldova Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:05:08 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Jim Spence http://www.pcmoldovann.com/archives/2005/09/08/poverty-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-55990 Jim Spence Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:41:43 +0000 http://www.pcmoldovann.com/?p=69#comment-55990 Hi While searching for Blogs about education grant applications I found your site Poverty, part 2. Thank you for the effort you have put in. Hi While searching for Blogs about education grant applications I found your site Poverty, part 2. Thank you for the effort you have put in.

]]> By: skippy dot net http://www.pcmoldovann.com/archives/2005/09/08/poverty-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-25940 skippy dot net Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:04:14 +0000 http://www.pcmoldovann.com/?p=69#comment-25940 [...] sister shared an interesting story about the construction of a well in Africa: There’s a story posted in the office now of a PCV in an African village where the women walked [...] [...] sister shared an interesting story about the construction of a well in Africa: There’s a story posted in the office now of a PCV in an African village where the women walked [...]

]]> By: Jenny Klein http://www.pcmoldovann.com/archives/2005/09/08/poverty-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-5213 Jenny Klein Sat, 10 Sep 2005 20:14:48 +0000 http://www.pcmoldovann.com/?p=69#comment-5213 Thanks for the great answers. Glad my email inspired you to explain these things. :) If you think about it culturally, they are asking you to go against your own American "quick fix" culture. So often here we use money to solve problems (just this morning my husband bought a laser printer at a garage sale for $15.00 so that he could do his black and white printing using that, which has much cheaper ink, and save money on the ink jet cartridges, which are much more expensive...). There you are using much harder to tap resources - motivation, innovation, dedication. No wonder it takes so long and is so hard! Jenny Thanks for the great answers. Glad my email inspired you to explain these things. :) If you think about it culturally, they are asking you to go against your own American “quick fix” culture. So often here we use money to solve problems (just this morning my husband bought a laser printer at a garage sale for $15.00 so that he could do his black and white printing using that, which has much cheaper ink, and save money on the ink jet cartridges, which are much more expensive…). There you are using much harder to tap resources – motivation, innovation, dedication. No wonder it takes so long and is so hard!

Jenny

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