A crash course in changing the world.
I chose to write about Jill Farrant. She is a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of Cape Town. I read a lot of stories about interesting projects and people. I chose Jill Farrant because with her research she is trying to solve one of the biggest plant problems in Africa - and therefore combining her profession with an approach to improve the biological situation.…
Added by Katrin Ziegler on April 29, 2012 at 9:30am — No Comments
"Don't fight culture"
- this one is definitely my favourite one.
Of course every tip is useful and to really change something you surely have to consider every single one of them. Nevertheless this statement stands out for me. I think one reason why a lot of development aid missions fail is because people do not understand what the foreign culture really is about. Altough to me it is one of the basic steps of changing something -…
ContinueAdded by Katrin Ziegler on April 26, 2012 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments
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