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As Director of D-TRAC in Thailand, I was regularly approached by donors wanting to fund aid agencies helping with the... View Article
Donations can be misused and ill-spent despite the best intentions of donors Deciding whether or not to donate and which... View Article
This posting is from a journal I kept as a Crisis Corps volunteer working on the tsunami recovery in Thailand.... View Article
Think about the most memorable photo in a recent advertisement from an aid agency. What emotion did that photo create?... View Article
Following the 2004 Southeast Asia tsunami, I was sent back to Thailand. I’d been a Peace Corps volunteer there in... View Article
“I wish my parents had died so I could get all this stuff too.” An aid worker overheard a student... View Article
Last week John W. Yettaw, an American, swam across a lake and into the compound of the Burmese Democracy leader... View Article
Menus vary according to local taste and preferences Craving beef I stopped by a McDonald’s in Indonesia looking for a... View Article
From the Kenyan newspaper the Daily Nation: Mosquito net manufactures are teaming up with the provincial administration and village elders... View Article
A report just released by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies titled Tsunami – Global... View Article
Sending donated items can undermine the local economy Recently the local news featured the story of an aid group seeking... View Article
The end of Ramadan means a celebrate for all those who do and do not celebrate. Our CIDI team is... View Article
Did you know that the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), comprising 189 National Societies, is the... View Article
We at USAID CIDI can’t decide if the summer heat is causing us to see mirages or if we are... View Article
In the aftermath of the hurricanes Ingrid and Manuel (September 2013) thousands of families in Mexico lost their houses, possessions... View Article