I first want to say a big thank you to everyone who attended last night's dinner. The generosity out of the goodness of everyone's heart is enormously appreciated. After the dinner, when I began to do some of my social sustainability homework, I found that the topics I was studying were hitting me harder than usual. We have so much support from our community, a kind of support the people in Humla do not have. Its important that we understand how privileged we are to even be going on this trip. I think we should make an effort to think about and do some reading on privilege. Its definitely a hard topic to talk about, but its valuable to be aware of when we are coming from so much privilege and going into a community that has so little. Even though we are trying to help, we still have so much more than they do. It can be a really difficult thing to deal with.
For clarification, when I say privilege, I mean things like resources and rights... health, so on.
Think about it, Look at the picture below,
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