The Benghazi Diaries Part 2 – Onwards...

We attended the launch of a new organisation at the medical school in Benghazi. I was happy to see that in the lecture theatre there were around 100 female students, thereby cementing the role Libyan women have got at the moment and will have in the future in rebuilding Libyan society.

Our vision for Libya is RIGHT; delivering aid needs to go hand in hand with training. We cannot ignore the way organisations connect, network, manage the same way we cannot ignore people in need of food and water. The two actions don’t have to be mutually exclusive. With one hand we can feed the starving, while with the other hand we can strengthen the system and build local and regional infrastructures.

More time and resources need to be spent to ensure civil society in Libya has the training it requires.

To be continued...