Of money and projects

One group of farmers that I’ve been working with abused the funds we gave them for their project. Blatant stealing by the only two male group members out of 7.

I won’t go into details. But there’s been a lot of complications and the big showdown is on Monday. I wonder how it’ll turn out.

If you ask me, there were a lot of things wrong with how the project developed in the first place. But it still doesn’t make me feel less sad at the fact that it has to turn out this way.

As much as I hate to generalize, I really think there is a culture of ‘corruption’ or abusing of power here. It goes from the very bottom to the very top. There is a sense of entitlement, that it’s ‘natural’ to abuse your power once you have it. No one should hold any grudges because, hey, if you were in my position, you would have done the same thing.

Sometimes, well most of the time, it’s a little bit more than mind boggling.

I’ll write more updates once the showdown on Monday happens and the verdict is out.