{"id":1882,"date":"2011-10-28T16:21:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T14:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2011-10-29T11:06:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T09:06:40","slug":"absolutely-intercultural-147-charity-and-volunteering-mentality-and-charity-culture-mekong-quilts-in-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=1882","title":{"rendered":"absolutely intercultural 147 +++ charity and volunteering +++ mentality and charity culture +++ Mekong Quilts in Cambodia +++"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1882-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_147.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_147.mp3\">http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_147.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mekong-Quilts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1907\" title=\"Mekong Quilts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mekong-Quilts.jpg\" alt=\"Manager of Mekong Quilts\" width=\"336\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mekong-Quilts.jpg 336w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mekong-Quilts-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mekong-Quilts-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 85vw, 336px\" \/><\/a>Today our show will be all about <a title=\"&quot;charity&quot; on wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charity_%28practice%29\" target=\"_blank\">charity<\/a> and <a title=\"&quot;volunteering&quot; on wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volunteering#Volunteering_in_developing_countries\" target=\"_blank\">volunteering<\/a>. But is this all about being a good person and doing good deeds? We will talk to John Kaethler who volunteered in West Africa and admits that in his personal definition the word \u201ccharity\u201d has a rather negative connotation. We also meet Judi McAlpine and Sovannry Chan who both work for charities, Judi in Tanzania and Sovannry in Cambodia and who have dedicated their whole lives to charity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely modest<\/strong><br \/>\nA couple of days ago I sat down with <a title=\"John Kaethler's &quot;Global Transitions Program&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brocku.ca\/international-services\/globaltransitions\" target=\"_blank\">John Kaethler from Brock University<\/a> in Candada who told me that he had volunteered for two years as a development worker in Nigeria and again for two years in Papua New Guinea a long time ago. As a teacher and hospital help in West Africa he learned that if his activity was called \u201ccharity\u201d then HE was the one who was actually receiving it. The charity workers need to understand that THEY are the ones who are learning a lot and growing in the process\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely charitable<\/strong><br \/>\nLet us jump from Africa to Asia, and specifically Siem Reap to a very beautiful place in Cambodia which I visited with my wife for my 50th birthday. I walked into a shop because they had very beautiful handmade quilts in the shop window. But there was more to that shop as I found out from some British fellow shoppers. So, after admiring the beautiful handmade quilts I got interested in the \u201ccharity aspect of the shop called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/mekong-quilts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mekong Quilts<\/a>\u201d and asked the manager Sovannry for an interview and she was only too happy to talk about her work \u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely self-critical<\/strong><br \/>\nIn our last category I am coming back to John Kaethler and boldly asked him whether charity workers and volunteers sometimes need to step back a little and consider whether they are not just doing the charitable work for their own self-esteem.<\/p>\n<p>Our next show will be coming to you from <a href=\"http:\/\/annefox.eu\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Fox <\/a>in Denmark on 11 November.<\/p>\n<p>Until then \u2013<br \/>\nBleiben Sie absolut interkulturell!<\/p>\n<p>The host of this show is: <a title=\"Laurent Borgmann\" href=\"http:\/\/www.laurent-borgmann.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Laurent Borgmann<\/a><br \/>\nEditor: <a title=\"Social Media Design &amp; Beratung | Webdesign\" href=\"http:\/\/www.konzeptsinn.de\" target=\"_blank\">Karsten Kneese<\/a><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poddownico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" border=\"0\" \/> <a title=\"Download the show\" href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_147.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podfeedico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" border=\"0\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/absolutely-intercultural\" target=\"_blank\">Podcast-Feed<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podaboico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" border=\"0\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=137617215&amp;s\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes-Abo<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today our show will be all about charity and volunteering. But is this all about being a good person and doing good deeds? We will talk to John Kaethler who volunteered in West Africa and admits that in his personal definition the word \u201ccharity\u201d has a rather negative connotation. We also meet Judi McAlpine and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=1882\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;absolutely intercultural 147 +++ charity and volunteering +++ mentality and charity culture +++ Mekong Quilts in Cambodia +++&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1905,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions\/1905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}