... after having lived there for over two years, I remember how shocked I was when walking the supermarket isles and seeing the almost futile abundance of items. The different versions in which unnecessary items came was jaw-dropping… and sadness came to me when thinking of the handful of veggies displayed on a rice sack on the dirt floor in my town in Africa…

I feel strong enough to resist consumerism because I did not have my life driven by large companies and their race to profits while I was living in Africa… but I do catch myself slipping back into my old Western patterns every now and then and this is why I want to choose this goal, to have it on my list, visible and allow it to constantly remind me how nauseated I was about the injustice of economic disparaties between developed and developing countries and the power that large corporations have nowadays…