Just curious if this is a religious outfit? It sounds interesting, are western students coming over to run programs that train grown men with families how to be highly successful? It sounds like an honest business.shitegeist wrote:With the outfit I work for we bring students or interns over here and we pay for everything, all expenses. People are expected to work hard, and if they don’t, they get sent home. I’ve never had to send anyone home except a couple times for dengue. For every barang there is a SEAsian: the one funds the other.
I know lots of outfits in Cambodia who work on a similar model to this, and a lot of highly successful people come out of these programs, and their families go far. Fun fact: in none of these families does the man of the house spend his time posting 30,000 pieces of fucking nonsense on the internet per year.
No wonder you're so bent out of shape, your outfit must often be compared to the numerous organizations funneling in large amounts of destined to be willfully misappropriated foreign aid.
I, for the record, am all for NGOs that are on the ground doing good work. I absolutely hate that those NGOs are better at helping people than they are at running overseas money funneling PR campaigns. I think its time to clean house. Cambodians can stand on there own now and although there will be adversarial opinions to this from both sides, tough.
You say "I know lots of outfits in Cambodia who work on a similar model to this". My question is why? Why are there lots of outfits in Cambodia paying to ship students over here for reasons I don't yet know. Surely, this isn't the answer to Cambodia's problems. "For every barang there is a SEAsian: the one funds the other." Where is this funding coming from if not through the means you deny?
That last question is rhetorical. I'm not suggesting your personal intentions are bad or people don't gain from it, the students or Cambodians, but can't you see how this Cambodia...
... can't coexist with the one that brought the NGOs here in the first place? The sooner this new presentation takes over the sooner there will be no place for the former.penisjokeforaname wrote:On the other hand it's nice to finally see the country presented in a similar light to Thailand and not as the mangled, lawless KR skeleton they claimed it was until the last few years or so.
Globalization, capitalism, colonialism, whatever. You work with real people, don't you want them to have the opportunity to evolve and find the personal value that you as a western person were born with?
I have never been or will be a tefler or a destitute pensioner, but I would certainly rather be either than a smug, condescending, pious man living a life knowingly playing a roll where I held my thumb over another.