Archive for March, 2008
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
MCC Vietnam Projects
Mennonite Central Committee works exclusively with local development partners in Vietnam, rather than working alone. The theory behind this, and I believe it to be a good one, is that it’s better to build sustainable development capacity in a country than to move in, give money to particularly needy individuals, and move on.
But there is [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Vietnam by Brent
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Feng Shui, Einstein and Basketball
It seems I rarely post about the work I do (exceptions are here and here).
For the most part, I spend my days trying to decipher sentences like this one:
It was also recommended that 10 kinds of trees used for land evaluation should be used and land map adaptation 1:10,000 should be constructed with 18 kinds [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Vietnam by Brent
Monday, March 10th, 2008
Tết ở Việt Nam có vui không?
Rather than offer a formal apology for amount of time that has passed since I last posted here, I would point you toward my Flickr photostream, which is where most of my energy has been directed lately.
Translated roughly, the titular question of this post means, “Did you enjoy Tet in Vietnam?” (Literally, it would be, [...]
