Trying to persuade mostly illiterate, war-ravaged people growing poppies in the remote Afghanistan province of Helmand to embrace alternate sources of livelihood is one tough public affairs job.
This was epitomized by Holly Barnes Higgins, former contract public information officer for the US Agency for International Development (USAID). In the commentary section of the Sunday, February 4 edition of The Washington Post, she described the challenges she faced being an "infidel" in a highly religious place, a woman in a society ...