You have got to give the person her due. She has empowered village folks to make sure that things get done in the village.
If she is a Mao sympathiser, then that is a real shame. You could do the things she did without being infected by the communist germ. Otherwise, I think she has done a little bit for the village.
You can be a volunteer too. I had mooted an "ADOPT YOUR VILLAGE" idea before.
We need more and more people like her to go to villages and raise the standard of living. To raise level of the basic amenities of people there and to increase their technology awareness.
We need to demonstrate to them how to use technology to solve their problems and make their lives better. We need to help them tune into the outside world.
If she is filling their heads with Marxist crap then that is shameful.
The knee-jerk reaction of the left against technological collaboration with the west is a shameful and ignorant attitude. An educated villager in India would actually support such a deal.
Everything from Fiber Optics to prosthetics has made great advances in the US. It would be a shame not to tap into this.
BTW check out this site: http://www.namastesolar.com
We need All Village oriented NGOs to be technology oriented instead of ideology oriented.
