The blog “Africa is a country” has a good interview with Hussein Kurji, the creator of a Kenyan mockumentary of aid NGOs. The show is called Samaritans and it chronicles the daily travails of working at an NGO called Aid for Aid. Like Seinfeld was a “show about nothing,” this NGO is an organization that “does nothing.”
Here’s Kurji talking about one of the stories of Season 1 that sounds particularly funny: “The major story arc of Season 1 is that Aid for Aid is about to apply for the largest grant that the Nairobi field office has ever applied for. In Episode 2, their first task is to come up with an acronym before figuring out what the grant’s about.”
My favorite part of the interview though was when the blog asked him for the craziest story he’s heard about an NGO.
He replies: “I heard from someone…
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