Publication

This paper explores the reality of aid-supported development in Zambia from three different perspectives of people working there. It sheds light on a fundamental paradox of the aid business: huge donor efforts, much good and massive unfulfilled need. The essay also explores the paradox of three peoples' lives – a HIV-positive Zambian volunteer health worker, a young US aid worker and a bureaucrat from the UK Department for International Development – and their belief in fighting injustice and suffering, and knowing there are significant limits to what they can do.