Derek Lowstuter offers some good insights

I appreciate Derek Lowstuter’s use of the term “Majority World country” in describing Ethiopia because those of us in the United States, who consume a disproportionate share of the world’s resources, need the reminder that we are the minority.
His story also illustrates what can be gained when we let people help us. It’s been said that if we want to make a friend, we should let that person help us!
He and his wife also show how patronizing a seller can increase that seller’s appeal to other buyers, as was the case with the trans woman they bought eggs from.

His insights reverse the usual relationship of power: Majority World reverses our notion of who's central and who's peripheral; accepting help reverses the Peace Corps Volunteer-as-helper relationship; and buying eggs from the trans woman turns an act of patronizing in the commercial sense into an act of affirmation. Of course, he also illustrates the qualities of an effective Peace Corps Volunteer.