Development assistance is never neutral, meaning that projects will always have consequences for the recipients, good or bad, intended or unintended. The fieldworkers who are planning or implementing development assistance are not neutral. Their lives, and the lives of their families, will to varying degrees be influenced by their work, depending on how close or distant their contact is with the intended target groups. This book offers you a chance to experience the joys, disappointments, surprises and risks for a social anthropologist who for 25 years worked with developoment assistance.