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(EN) Aida sees an opportunity to localise development

(EN) Aida sees an opportunity to localise development

Released Monday, 1st June 2020
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(EN) Aida sees an opportunity to localise development

(EN) Aida sees an opportunity to localise development

(EN) Aida sees an opportunity to localise development

(EN) Aida sees an opportunity to localise development

Monday, 1st June 2020
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Hi! My name is Aida, and I am originally from Colombia. Right now I am doing an internship at the United Nations Organisation in Copenhagen, Denmark. Personally I think that the Coronavirus is giving us an opportunity, in my field, the aid industry, to focus on local people and local staff. In the development sector you see a lot of foreigners, usually from the Global North, going to the Global South to collaborate and support infrastructural, or educational projects, children rights etc.  Right now, this so-called crisis is allowing us to see how important the local staff is, which is another way of empowering the professionals, the people that have been working within and for the community. If COVID would not have taken place, things would remain business as usual. People go travel to work, and several times local people are not taken into account, because simply the foreigners have more skills or more experience. It is very important to support, assist and see with different eyes the way of how development works.  I also think that it is a great opportunity to see business as usual...not as usual. Meaning what? Meaning that the normal was wrong. That the way we were doing things is not the way we shall do. We were used to have some behaviours and beliefs that hurt the nature. And now you can see that a new normal is taking place with this Coronavirus. Perhaps there are a lot of opportunities. Of course, sadly, there are victims, people suffering. For example in my home country, a lot of people are starting to be hungry, because there are not enough jobs, there is not enough basic needs supply by the government. Of course, there is sadness around, there are victims, but this is an opportunity to learn, I believe.

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