“Look, if there are no seeds in two weeks you guys can just forget it, the assessments, everything, it’s as simple as that.” The US Agency for International Development (USAID) stepped in to help, but in a low-key way, without any US flags; working through Proximity, they quickly got seeds to 55,000 homes in 1,200 villages. It was an important success. A month later, Debbie Aung Din was invited to meet George Bush.
