What gets me about this is the totally crazy perspective they have which makes them think that this is an experience to be highlighted.
The rest of 'the world' would think it was either crazy or despicable.
Recently I heard an almost identical account from the totally opposite perspective. A young African woman was on a platform, in front of a large gathering of church people. The interview with her was included in an item on some church missionary work in Africa. The girl was one of their success stories. She had become attached to the mission project (a water project I think) attended the school that they had set up for the locals, shown great promise in her education, been flown out to the UK where she had gone through university and now was going back to her country where she was going to continue the work that she had benefitted from.
THAT seemed to be something worth praising.
It also seemed to have a point.