Once, long ago, I was training in the Peace Corps to teach English as a foreign language in lovely Afghanistan (I never went). Anyhow we were expected to be ‘jacks of all trades’ and one thing were trained to do was administer small pox vaccinations (which will tell you how long ago it was).
Two things I remember.
We were told that our biggest obstacle to any success in any endeavor would be the mullah. He would be against anything we did to bring Afghans out of the 7th century.
Women volunteers were considered especially valuable because only they could see, touch, talk to, vaccinate, or even refer to Afghan women. But even they had to tread very carefully.
But then again, all cultures are really equal and the more diverse we get, the stronger we are!