Categories for Good Intentions
In a recent Huffington Post article, Drew Barrymore urged readers to give to the World Food Program to help end... View Article
“Hit the ground running” As a Crisis Corps Volunteer (part of the US Peace Corps) I was sent back to... View Article
Upon posting the article 5 questions to ask before donating goods overseas it was suggested to me that we should... View Article
In the past month I have seen three different aid agencies request donated goods to send overseas. This is always... View Article
“Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” and “beggars can’t be choosers” are platitudes I hear when I talk... View Article
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