My client is a humanitarian NGO which has a couple of projects in Latvia. For this particular assignment gifts were collected (mostly food) all over Sweden and then driven over to Latvia. These gifts were then repacked in to banana boxes (as you can see in the last slide) handed out to the poorest families out on the countryside with the aid of Latvian social service.
It’s hard to describe all the emotions that a trip like this steers up. These families live in a totally sanitarian, economical, and social misery which was heartbreaking to experience. The most disturbing thing of all is that this is happening so close to home. It’s just about an hours flight away from Stockholm and our flat screen TVs and stuffed fridges…
