I didn't see that show but I will see if I can find it online.

I do know that 'helping' many of these mountain (or isolated) communities is difficult on many different levels. It may be hard to understand but there is a pride in many communities that resists outsiders' efforts to change things even for the better. I am familiar only with the hill communities of Virginia but I would guess that the same suspicion and resentment figures also in other areas.

Not that I think there aren't ways around it.

I never served in the Peace Corps but it seems to me that they must have found ways. Maybe the Peace Corps is a beginning step.