The Onion on Aid volunteers

The Onion is of course the funniest news website out there. This hilarious story I’m Totally Gonna Get Laid On This Humanitarian Mission To Uganda I think hits closer to home than probably most readers would suspect.

I am convinced that most of the people doing aid work are in it for either their own personal gain (not necessarily monitary) and that helping people comes a distant second.

My Peace Corps paperwork is all filled out, and my big transatlantic flight is only a few days away. Forget the boring office jobs and dead nightlife of suburban Schaumburg, Illinois, where the streets are empty by, like, 11 o’clock. Soon thereafter, a two-year dry spell will come to an end.