The last entry

Well the time has come to say goodbye, for all our family. We prepare to head back to the US next Wednesday and though we will spend a couple days in Beijing living it up I do not expect we will have time to write to you all to tell you about it. That will have to wait until we can see you in the states. However, over the past couple days as I have met with the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, World Health Organization, American Center for Mongolian Studies, Peace Corps volunteers and the asst. director of the Mongolian Center for Health Development, where I am working, I am left with a feeling of immense responsibility. Nowhere is the mix of local understanding, intnerational funding and human capacity merged in Mongolia. In fact, the WHO directors were asking for my help in writing of the national application for the US Millenium Challenge Grant. They said they are afraid the American's coming here to write "Mongolia's" health sector application for funds will focus on urban needs and improving the technical capacity of treating the most advanced needs (to the richest patients) to keep them from going to Beijing for treatment. This is not what the coutry needs and though everyone knows that they appear helpless to stop it. So the real work will being now. I debate over whether to write this paper out of the goodness of my heart, knowing the time I would put in would go unappreciated and that I have ignored my family already all summer. Well, cest la vie, we will see. Take care y'all and for those who now have an overwhelming desire to know what is going on in Mongolia here is a great link to new site which will keep you up to date. See you back in the states, Bayartai Mongolia!:
http://www.moninfo.org/