Aaron Tait

Okay, so you went in with this really strong vision of thinking we're going to make the kind of transformation and the change that we believe is possible with all the best intentions in the world.

How did that play out in reality?

And how did they respond?

What do you mean you lost them?

Why?

What happened?

What were you apologising for?

What had you got wrong?

So it ended up being a success not in the way that you'd envisaged but in a way that was right for that community.

What did you and Caitlin end up deciding was the most effective way to try and support change in the developing world?

After your time in Africa, you left, you did further study, and then where did you put your energy?

So you and Caitlin put everything into building this NGO not-for-profit.

You'd gone in with the intention of doing good.

Did it have the effect for you personally that you wanted that work to do, Aaron, as well as the good it was doing in the wider world?

You've always been such a driven kind of person, it seems.

What's the motivation in your life now?

Your two boys are still young.

Do you talk about your military service with them at all?

Aaron, thank you so much for being my guest on Conversations.

Aaron Tate's memoir is called Far Horizons, A Journey from War to Peace.