Everyone Is Without Borders…Even Your Mom
We live in a world where borders are decidedly uncool. Just look around. It seems like every profession out there is shedding its borders. Doctors, engineers, teachers, reporters, lawyers, sociologists, MBAs, librarians, chemists, mothers. That’s right – Mothers Without Borders.
I met some Mothers Without Borders volunteers when I was living in Zambia. The only information that I could really ascertain was that they were a religious-based organization who worked to improve the lives of orphans. Sounds great, but it really doesn’t say much about what it is they actually do. Perhaps this presentation can shed some light.
What do you think? Well, I see some Americans unloading some dirt. And some more Americans digging a hole. And look – some more Americans…umm…shovelling some more dirt.
I’ve got no doubt that the Mothers Without Borders have their hearts in the right place, but do you know what Zambia doesn’t need? Americans (or any Westerners for that matter) to come in and construct buildings. There are literally millions of Zambians who would be happy to do that job, and for a lot less than the price of a plane ticket from the US to Lusaka.
