A Thousand Hills to Heaven Reflection
Today we are bombarded and taken hostage by our own lives and social media. We forget about the other 7 billion people in the world. Sometimes, we must take a step back and consider the lives of others. We need to hear about real-life heroes. Most of these heroes work in the trenches to make the world a better place. The book A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope, and a Restaurant in Rwanda , by Josh Ruxin does just that by bringing to life the healing of a nation devastated by a genocide and crippling poverty. I had very little background knowledge as I began this semester long journey. I knew about the Rwandan genocide from watching Hotel Rwanda in AP Human Geography in 9th grade. The movie gave me …show more content…
After thinking about this rule, I struggled more and more with it. What constitutes too high a standard or too low a standard? In another book I read, Monique and the Mango Rains, a woman in the Peace Corps saw what the tradition of a birthing house in Mali looked like. A concrete birthing table, no rubber gloves, and very little medicine. Does this constitute as a tradition/culture or unsafe/ unsanitary methods? Or like we discussed in class, is genital mutilation tradition or cruel? I think that standards should be raised to the level of developed nations, but that change should come about gradually as the aid workers explain why the level needs to be that …show more content…
I find this rule hard to believe. Both of our guest speakers said that they had very little involvement with the government. The same rings true in the book Kisses from Katie, as she never mentions the Ugandan government. I wonder if this rule could be revised to say something like: you cannot effectively fix the entire country’s poverty problem if the government is hopelessly corrupt. The only time this rule applies is if the funding goes directly to the government to then disperse to the people. Other than that, which I don’t think is overly common, there should be little money changing with the government. Although I believe that it is important to have government involvement, I think it is more important to take care of the people in need rather than the government officials. Even in America, there are people taking care of the homeless and poor without explicit consent or funding from the
Today we are bombarded and taken hostage by our own lives and social media. We forget about the other 7 billion people in the world. Sometimes, we must take a step back and consider the lives of others. We need to hear about real-life heroes. Most of these heroes work in the trenches to make the world a better place. The book A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope, and a Restaurant in Rwanda , by Josh Ruxin does just that by bringing to life the healing of a nation devastated by a genocide and crippling poverty. I had very little background knowledge as I began this semester long journey. I knew about the Rwandan genocide from watching Hotel Rwanda in AP Human Geography in 9th grade. The movie gave me …show more content…
After thinking about this rule, I struggled more and more with it. What constitutes too high a standard or too low a standard? In another book I read, Monique and the Mango Rains, a woman in the Peace Corps saw what the tradition of a birthing house in Mali looked like. A concrete birthing table, no rubber gloves, and very little medicine. Does this constitute as a tradition/culture or unsafe/ unsanitary methods? Or like we discussed in class, is genital mutilation tradition or cruel? I think that standards should be raised to the level of developed nations, but that change should come about gradually as the aid workers explain why the level needs to be that …show more content…
I find this rule hard to believe. Both of our guest speakers said that they had very little involvement with the government. The same rings true in the book Kisses from Katie, as she never mentions the Ugandan government. I wonder if this rule could be revised to say something like: you cannot effectively fix the entire country’s poverty problem if the government is hopelessly corrupt. The only time this rule applies is if the funding goes directly to the government to then disperse to the people. Other than that, which I don’t think is overly common, there should be little money changing with the government. Although I believe that it is important to have government involvement, I think it is more important to take care of the people in need rather than the government officials. Even in America, there are people taking care of the homeless and poor without explicit consent or funding from the