Protected: Looking Back on Haiti – II: Failure or Success?
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View ArticleProtected: Looking Back on Haiti: VI – Innovation and moving forward
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View ArticleCurse, Drink, Shag
Most actual, working aid workers I know personally sort of sneer at the whole premise of Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling memoir, Eat, Pray, Love. It’s the story of a newly single former housewife who...
View ArticleProtected: Where’s the baby?
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View ArticleiPod
I’m sure that someone at Microsoft can articulate a very convincing case for why the Zune is a “better” device than the iPod. Maybe it has some awesome obscure feature or function. Maybe its’ battery...
View ArticleDear Students – 1: Motivation
Dear Students, I know you’re reading. I know that some of you have instructors who make you comment on aid blogs as part of your class work. And so I’m going do a short series of posts just for you....
View ArticleWanting what you’ve got
Taking a sabbatical from sabbatical only long enough to re-publish this previous post. Here’s the digitally remastered version of It’s Wanting What You’ve Got, published on the old version of Tales...
View ArticleThe arse-end of nowhere
Some days I think NGOs are the bane of the aid world. * * * Back when I was first starting my career in humanitarian work, I spent what felt at the time like an eternity living in and going to some of...
View ArticleCalling All Aid Bloggers
I’m going to try something new, here at Tales From the Hood. Mark your calendars, because starting on Monday, 19 September, I will begin what I hope will become a recurring tradition of throwing a...
View ArticleAll I Wanna Do
Day three of this week’s Tales From the Hood rock ‘n’ roll marathon. Here’s the third tune in the playlist: This ain’t no disco It ain’t no country club either This is LA! Articles like this one used...
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