Nichole Baker: Part 2, on “voluntourism” and the two weeks in Haiti that changed her life

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🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Nichole Baker returns to the show to talk about her rocky introduction to international charity work while on a trip to Haiti in 2016. Tasked with setting up a pathology lab and teaching local pathology students in Cap Haitïen, she arrived to discover that her students were on strike, her translator didn’t speak English, and the lab had no electricity or running water. Nichole talks about this rude awakening to the realities of foreign aid work, where many organizations are ignorant of the co...

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0:00.0	I kind of was just sitting there thinking, holy crap, this nonprofit got this huge grant,
0:08.7	and it basically is just going to contribute to the trash of Haiti. And not only was I seeing
0:15.9	what happens when an organization doesn't do the research necessary to run sustainable practices
0:22.6	in a developing country, I was contributing to possibly harming the people I was becoming
0:28.6	close to, and that was making me sick.
0:33.7	It's showtime, everybody.
0:36.1	Showtime!
0:41.3	You've been living in a dream world, Neo. This is the world as it exists today.
0:45.3	Life moves pretty fast.
0:49.3	You don't stop and look around once in a while. You could miss it.
0:53.3	Listen, we're talking about practice. You don't stop and look around once in a while. You could miss it.
0:58.0	Listen, we talk about practice. Repeat on the dude's room.
1:00.0	Donnie, you're out of your element.
1:02.0	I see you think this has nothing to do with you.
1:05.0	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
1:09.0	This is the adventure stash with Payson McAlvin. Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
1:14.0	This is the adventure stash with Payson McAlvin.
1:17.8	Hello and welcome back to the show.
1:24.0	Welcome back to our little mini four-part series with my girlfriend, Nicole Baker.
1:28.8	Understandably, many of you all will think that is weird, having my girlfriend on the podcast here as a guest, but I hope that those of you that actually listen to the episodes
1:33.5	will come to understand why I not only felt the need to have her on the show at all, but to have a
1:40.2	four-part series, no less. The truth of the matter is she is one of the most impressive
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