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[tagalanao]

Originally Posted by wilked aka Khun Deng

My dearest hope and the goal of our involvement there is to help create stable economic development and convince everyone (local and AFP) that a government responsive to the needs of its people is a must regardless of who's in charge.
Dan

Dan, next time you come around here, we should get in touch. As a journalist, I also get to talk to a lot of Moro officials and ordinary folks. Way back, I did some series of articles for my former paper (Phil. Daily Inquirer) on the peace efforts and the attempt of international donors, like your USAID, to improve the lot of the Moros. Last year, an Italian development agency asked me to do their sort of end project report here in Lanao del Norte. They showed me sample publications, complete with graphs and tables, but we found them boring. So I suggested we do it the jouralistic way, like a magazine. I did both photos and text. This was my output, PDF file compressed in Zip ...

http://www.timonera.com/pix/movimondo.zip

BobT