ABSTRACT
The same applies to people working in other types of organisation's that have a global reach, such as multinational corporations. The difference for aid workers is the value they and the people back home who fund them place on the moral purpose of their job. In the 1970s, the bases of such networks were men's jobs in development. Development professionals have inherited from colonial times a pattern of home and social life that excludes contact with the people living in poverty they are there to help. Nevertheless, as in the past, all-encompassing aid practice that integrates home, social life and work continues to produce a contradiction of distance and engagement, creating a dissonance with the aim of aid practice to make this a better world. In Lusaka, capital of Zambia, which was Gastons next posting for the World Food Programme, we lived in a tree-lined street of civil service bungalows, rented furnished from the Government via the United Nations.
