Aid

I remember sitting in a humid office in Goma, staring at a glossy brochure from a major NGO that detailed the “holistic community-building frameworks” required …

I’ve spent enough time in dusty Land Cruisers to know that most high-level briefings on how aid workers are protected are nothing more than expensive …

I spent nine years staring at dusty manifests in South Sudan and the DRC, and if there is one thing I learned, it is that …

I spent a decade watching people in Geneva and New York draft fifty-page frameworks on diplomacy, convinced that high-level summits were the key to getting …

I spent nine years in East and Central Africa watching people mistake a well-worded mission statement for actual progress. You’ll see glossy annual reports filled …

I remember sitting in a humid warehouse outside Goma, staring at a stack of empty crates while a radio report in the background boasted about …

I spent nine years in the back of Land Cruisers and standing in dusty warehouses across East Africa, and if there is one thing I’ve …

I remember sitting in a humid, windowless tent outside Goma, listening to the drone of a generator while three different agency heads argued over a …

I remember sitting in a humid, corrugated metal office in Goma, staring at a spreadsheet that claimed we had “optimized our strategic response framework.” Outside, …