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Working with a foreign NGO

June 6th, 2009

Over the last few months, my knowledge of Uganda has been penetrating closer and closer to the core of who I am. I still haven’t reconciled the fact that in America there is an abundance of opportunity. If you put your mind to something, there is a high probability that you can find a way to pull it off. In Uganda, there is less opportunity. The “opportunity” that I’m speaking of is primarily economic and academic. This poverty I see in Uganda is something that I think about on a regular basis.

But, when the criteria I use is God – things change. The playing field becomes level. When I think about the fact that God created and designed each person, I see that the value for every human being is equal. Then I think of the commands of Jesus – he has commanded all people to love Him and love their neighbor. When God speaks, he speaks to every human being equally. He speaks to the core of who they are – their heart and soul. He addresses humanity based on how he created them.

So how do I address the culture-shock that I feel when I see the poverty in Uganda while I live in the affluence of America? While understanding that the value of every person is the same in whatever nation they live in, I remember what Paul said in 2 Cor. – “…but that as a matter of fairness your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness.“

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