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I anticipation mumeelewa heading. Nimeandika yuen badala ya (capital) missive U na N kimaksudi coz huku kuna bots husorora hizi topics.
So, nimekuwa nikifanya kazi yuen kwa miaka sita sasa but conscionable resigned past month. Half of it was arsenic a unpaid portion in, internship and the different fractional afloat employment. I joined due to the fact that I wanted to "change the world" "make impact" arsenic was genuinely passionate astir philanthropy. Endless meetings successful luxurious hotels, paid for with abdominous per diems, the taxable is ever the same. Carefully crafted ngo statements that raises your anticipation of being portion of thing bigger than yourself, and "changing Africa." They hype you up astir "making a difference" but spell up and cull each proposals that really lick problems. They dependable "raise awareness" and "express concerns" astir problems but bash not privation to really lick them.
I worked nether task connected aboriginal gestation successful West Pokot and wrote a probe connection connected factual and tangible solutions similar gathering dorms successful a adjacent girls' schoolhouse truthful arsenic to connection a unafraid acquisition opportunity. We did a batch of sensitizing the community, particularly elders, and managed to really get the enactment of the community. Surprisingly, the elders were supportive and consenting to connection land, 20 acres. They besides were consenting to connection labor. for free, for constructing classes and dorms. With escaped onshore and labour the outgo was amounting to astir 10 cardinal for a boarding installation for astir 800 students.
Given the large talks astir feminism girls and women rights and everything, I expected it to sail through. Shock connected me. I was met with endless revisions, meetings, and "recommendations" to alteration the extremity and deliverables truthful arsenic to "secure funding." I was sent to contiguous the connection to countless panels, which were to past contiguous it to donors. (Yep, they didn't person wealth for the project, but were gathering successful Sarova weekly, burning astatine slightest 3 cardinal each meeting.) The said suggestions changed the origin of the connection from really delivering a tangible solutions. It changed into an 'awareness campaign' that made sound and delivered nary tangible solutions. In the end, I was angry, frustrated, felt fooled, drained and disillusioned. Ooh, and the gaslighting! If you are idealistic, ambitious and acrophobic with results. and propulsion excessively had you get gaslighted and deliberately sidelined. It reaches a constituent wherever they virtually crook you into a laughing stalk and mock your proposals, to intentionally propulsion you away.
All done the nonsense, they kept talking astir "making impact" portion deliberately ignoring tangible solutions. People grin astatine you enthusiastically, repeating the aforesaid buzzwords. It rapidly becomes a toxic enactment situation afloat of intelligence and affectional torture that you extremity up physically exhausted, if not going mad. Behind each this façade is simply a deep-sited racism, spite for achromatic radical and immoderate ideas that is not from a achromatic person, hypocrisy, to outright fraud. The enactment is simply a machine, and determination are radical strategically assigned definite roles to support it moving the mode it does, springiness an content of a morganatic philanthropic organization, but really doing nothing! There are radical who really bash not work, can't beryllium fired but clasp precise strategical roles.
And the blatant corruption. I saw with my ain 2 eyes wealth being re-routed backmost overseas done dubious subcontracting companies and concealed offshore companies. This is not questioned nor talked about. You're expected to sing the opus of "making impact" portion smiling.
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