annual assembly

last week was DED's annual assembly, with 32 "development workers" , our official title, although i see me more as an advisor. but anyway....
we are a interesting mixture of old & young, of africa-frustrated & africa-loving, of dynamic & lazy, of practical & naive people. of course, in my water group we are the young, dynamic & practical ones!
The assembly took place in the oldest Hotel in Uganda: Massindi Hotel, where Audrey Hepburn stayed while shooting 'African Queen' and catched serious malaria. but it is really a nice place with good food.
and because we germans are so keen on rights & democracy, and the DED- founded in the early 70s- additionally especially loves participation and the theme of "we are all equal" (especially when it becomes to our salary), we had one day full of votings. in the end, we started voting if we can vote on this&that issue. or voting if we can "recommend" something, and vote that we start voting.... crazy...
the other day we had presentations about population growth and if development aid is really necessary, from an ugandan perspective. when i sum up ironically : development aid is unnecesary and just helps to corrupt the government, so withdraw all aid, and let the people starve&die, that will also slow down the high population growth of 3,2 % .