Today I ran my last few errands
around Maputo, including stopping by the Peace Corps office to say hi and bye.
One thing I think is funny. When I meet
Africans from other countries and tell them I live, they all comment on how bad
the drivers in Mozambique are, and how terrible the public transport here is
(as in, the cars are falling apart, and they shove a ridiculous number of
people in each vehicle). So apparently everyone really thinks we’re the worst!
When I was up in Inharrime I got to
meet Jasmin for lunch one day, and she had just returned from a REDES workshop
and was telling me about it. It made me smile inwardly, because I have realized
now that every single year the leadership of REDES and JUNTOS (the co-ed
equivalent) thinks they can do a better job than the previous year. I saw this
my first year when the leaders talked about their predecessors, I felt that
with confidence when Anna and I took over, I saw the changes our successors
made to our work, and I see them repeating the same mistakes this year. It’s
interesting because as long as leadership changes to a new group of PCVs on a
yearly basis, this will never change. And it’s a horrible business model, but
somehow through the perseverance and hard work of the PCVs and Mozambicans in
charge, these programs continue to do really wonderful things in Mozambique.
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