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The Battle of Baturagi: Welcome to My Muddy, Misguided Mission

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They called it a “welcome tour.” I called it a sneak preview of my impending mental breakdown. My first one-week mission to Simeulue was supposedly to “get briefed” on the projects I’d be handling — but let’s be honest, it was really just an orientation to chaos, remote island-style. Nothing says warm island hospitality like

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From Cheap Labor to Red Cross Delegate: My Mud Road Journey

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Back From Pakistan After returning from Pakistan in late 2001, fresh off the great donkey-powered escape across the mountains (yes, that story), I was immediately thrown back into the thick of it. Assigned as a flying Water & Habitat (WatHab) engineer, I was responsible for restoring bombed-out water networks in five provinces — Jalalabad, Kandahar,

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