First off, I can do it - this is a definite plus. Right now I'm really only doing digital stuff, but I think I'll be able to build up my confidence as a worker, and probably manage... okay. But I am very happy that the instructions and goals are clear. If I know what I'm trying to do, and I know the resources at my disposal, then it's just a matter of optimizing a complex system, no different from, say, winning at MTG.
Second, it seems to be right up my alley, in terms of what SGS teaches. My organization promotes a healthy relationship between African governments and their expatriate diasporas. So all those Tanzanians living abroad send back remittences in their mail... but AfricaRecruit steps in and has the government make a formal process they can do it. How is this useful? Well, if it is properly processed, then you have paperwork of past payments, so if you want to apply for a loan, then you can show your income is steady... including the remittance payments you might be recieving. It also promotes reversing the brain-drain - instead of all the smart people leaving the country to find opprotunities in first world countries, those same people are being attracted back to use their western-trained skills in their country. Or to invest in their former state's industries. All kinds of cool stuff, and exactly the dynamic that SGS is striving to describe.
Third, it's doing a good thing. I am not a fan of giving to charity. I see these people with signs of how your 5 dollars can save a life in Africa, and I don't really care. In fact, I resent such organizations.
Why? Because they are giving people fish, rather than teaching them how to fish. (Metaphorically.)
Don't buy medicines for sick Africans, build a healthcare system that will provide for them and their children and each generation there on. Don't buy food for someone - invest in Africa argriculture. Don't see a disaster happen on the news and send money - invest in disaster prevention/mitigation/recovery governmental organizations. Invest in African companies, invest in African schools, invest in sustainable industries (Avoid mining/drilling, though).
That's what AfricaRecruit is doing - it works with the Diaspora and African governments to help build capacity via foreign direct investment, skill-placement (a very related organization is FindaJobinAfrica.com - they are across the table from where I sit), and mutual assistance. And building capacity is what will bring Africa into the first world, not aid.
I am proud to work for AfricaRecruit, even if I am doing grunt labor.
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