Care a lot and try hard
Joyce opened the backpack and dumped a heap of cash onto the table. A powerful odor of fish filled the room. She and Ben looked up at me: wide-eyed, fresh off the plane, first time in Senegal. “Don’t worry,” Ben deadpanned. “This is a totally legitimate company."
Mbour, Senegal, July 2018. I had just flown in from Myanmar, where I’d been working on conflict prevention, to interview for a job at Wave.