Whither aid dollars? And who can help me find out?
This post is actually a request for help. I’m in Sierra Leone, with crap bandwidth and a lot of statistical information I want to…
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Things that are worth your time
Adam Hocschild’s article from Congo, about mining, which I blogged about earlier, is online. Read it. Amazing. “Africa to Appalachia,” Jayme Stone’s collaboration with…
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Creepiest Google searcher ever, and a confidentiality conundrum
Like a lot of bloggers, weird Google search terms will send people my way. I used the word “thighs” in a blog headline once,…
Read MoreFarm aid from space
This is the title of my newest Christian Science Monitor article, which is actually about weather-indexed insurance programs in sub-Saharan Africa. All kinds of…
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR — Farm Aid From Space
Dusty northern Kenya doesn’t look like a laboratory, but across its dry plains, cattle herders are pioneering a new way to fend off poverty…
Read MoreDoes charity work like carbon offsets?
First, let me just say that it sounds like carbon offsets are a guilt salve more than anything else. If you saw the piece…
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How an LA Gang Leader, Saved By Books, Uses Arts to Help Others
Poet Luis Rodriguez created Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural and bookstore to help save others. Luis Rodriguez is not particularly interested in genesis stories. This…
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How Charities Harness Social Media
Mr. Harrison is the founder of Charity: Water, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing clean water to impoverished villages in Africa. In January, he got…
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Manging More Change, Faster
Upset with how slow public-health initiatives moved in poor countries, Josh Ruxin decided to treat them like the private sector. Just weeks after the…
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The High Stakes of Asylum Cases
Emily Arnold-Fernandez’s first client was a Liberian teen who would be forced to go to war without her help. When Emily Arnold-Fernandez realized the…
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