![]() But we also see the alcohol-fueled parties and fleeting romances, the burnouts and self-doubt, and the struggle to do good in places that have long endured suffering. We watch as she manages a 24,000-person camp in Darfur, collects evidence for the Charles Taylor trial in Sierra Leone, and contributes to the massive aid effort to clean up a shattered Haiti. In this honest and irreverent memoir, she introduces readers to the realities of life as an aid worker. It was messy, chaotic, and difficult-but she was hooked. But the world that she encountered in the field was dramatically different than anything she could have imagined. ![]() ![]() Jessica Alexander arrived in Rwanda in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide as an idealistic intern, eager to contribute to the work of the international humanitarian aid community. ![]()
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