Dear editor,

I enjoy helping the needy and the deprived, but I do not envy aid workers in the troubled Somalia. Recently, an engineer working for the UN in Somalia died in the latest of a series of assassination-style killings of aid workers.

This is the order of the day - death. I would rather go to serve in other countries where my services would meet the needy without necessarily endangering my life.

In any case, I would be more useful if I lived longer to serve the unfortunate people in troubled environments of the world.

I am so sorry for the aid workers and their families, but pray for them and praise their work and determination to take some succor to the suffering, ordinary people of the region.

Rwamagana