Last week I received another of the emergency calls, whether I could not donate blood, rhesus negative, for an old woman waiting for surgery at a hospital in the north of Lima. The son of the patient would also pick me up and bring you back home. Of course, I said - if I only ever with my blood, which can do good, how should I as refuse? On Thursday
waretet punctually scrap heap looking car with a driver for me - José was called the son of the patient, who was with his siblings for days in search of rhesus negative blood donors. "A single nephew had the same blood type, and because a tattoo they have not accepted him. I could have beaten him at the moment," says José of the effort to raise matching blood donor. And because of the car I should not worry me, that would have us Request by e. His last brand new car had been stolen from him, because he would rather go for the junk box.
But not assume I will tell. But from our drive North Lima. A traffic jam after another offered us an opportunity to exchange our experiences. I was so German, "said José. He also got to know German when he was in the 80 years he worked in the personnel department of the city of Lima. At that time, the left Alfonso Barrantes was mayor. But back to the Germans. A William and somebody else, very nice friendly people. For the German development aid they had advised the city to organize the new waste management Lima. I am surprised that, I had never heard. With the waste Lima makes her a lot today. And, honestly, the project has achieved anything, let me ask my chauffeur. Jose looked a little embarrassed moreover, as he wrestles with whether he wants to tell me the truth or they would prefer to gloss over, because he did not insult me. "So to be honest, it was all for naught. At first, the aid workers very involved, wanted to change many things. But when they saw that they got stuck in the decrepit administrative structures, have their activities more and more in the hotels in the chic district Miraflores has shifted. "round tables and cocktails, where you talked about waste management and poverty reduction would then replace the actual work on the community. Among the events will be the secretaries had been sent to someone from the City attended.
But that was twenty years ago, then he is also considered a Communist. Like his mother, who now needs the blood. She was a seamstress in a factory and committed union member. He, José, had long renounced communism and believe in the free market. I should but only the offer in the department stores look to sprout in the slums now out of the ground. The have it in the 80 years he was not given. Whether it himself for even better to do? No, he does not have much of it, but just need time to develop that would have come.
