Back in time

You know how when you go driving through small-town American on your way into town next to the nice welcome to wherever sign there is another one that says, we have Rotary International and the Lions Club and the Boy Scouts and whatever other organizations are active in town? Well, they have those signs in small-town Mali, too. Except instead of Rotary International and the Lions Club (actually, Rotary is represented) it is which countries and international aid organizations are keeping the village alive. Germans built our schools and Canadians put in out pumps and Norwegians are teaching in our schools and UNICEF is providing nutritional supplements. Because Mali sure isn’t building Mali.