Somali militant group bans 3 aid agencies (shockingly, all agencies are Christian) (AP) More about the aid workers killed in Afghanistan (CNN) Huffington Post is sponsoring three blogs from women leaders in aid. Check out the posts by Melinda Gates on saving children and rotavirus, Mia Farrow on the value of education, and Susan Smith […]
Thanks to Mark Overmann at the Alliance for International Educational and Cultural Exchange for the summary of this important legislation: Reps. Rush Holt (D-NJ) and Paul Tonko (D-NY) introduced last Friday the Excellence and Innovation in Language Learning Act (HR 6036), a bill that would authorize $400 million in funding for FY 2011 for the […]
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Chris Blattman doesn’t think so. Read his reasons below: Aid is not a mythical goddess, walking through a barren field, greenery spouting in her wake. None of us, really believe such a thing, but we do approach charity as though rapid transformation is possible. It’s uplifting (well… less depressing) to remember a few things. 1. […]
(copyright Lee Lorenz and The New Yorker) This recent New Yorker cartoon reminded me of the old Wizard of Id strip that I referenced in my post on Nature’s Way.
Taliban fighters ambushed and killed a 10-member medical team, including six Americans (three of which were women), as they were returning from a trip to a remote northern area to provide eye care to villagers. The Taliban claimed that the aid workers were spies and preachers of Christianity. This attack is one of the deadliest […]
We all know the obvious culprits of the Western diet that can be harmful to our children’s health…the dreaded fast food, but could our diet actually harm children in the developing world even on a good day? According to new research from Italian scientists in the August 2-6 issue of the Proceedings of the National […]
My favorite of the development aid innovations I’ve come across: the Lifestraw! The Lifestraw is a simple looking device: essentially it’s a plastic tube, containing a powerful water filter. This filter is capable of killing bacterial and viral pathogens and filtering particles down to the size of 15 microns. The Lifestraw itself costs only about […]
The UAE and the Saudis have made a lot of news earlier this week with their steps to choke BlackBerry data services in their countries. Research in Motion (RIM), the makers of BlackBerry, came up with a particularly clever system for securing their devices. CEOs, as it turns out, don’t like the idea of anyone […]
Tom Engelhardt expands on the same point I made earlier this week about the hypocrisy of the Pentagon’s condemnations of WikiLeaks. Read Engelhardt’s post here. He ties the issue into the general media bias against U.S.-caused civilian casualties. For example, the highly emotional, attention-getting Time magazine cover, “What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan,” could easily […]
On April 6, 1994, President Juvénal Habyarimana of Rwanda was assassinated as his plane descended to Rwanda’s Kigali airport. It remains unclear who was responsible for the attack but everyone knows what happened next. Somewhat less well-known is France’s role in the training, arming, and supporting of the Hutu government and its violent paramilitary groups. […]
USAID is to be commended for creating and successfully implementing a program in Egypt that combines the best of development policy and US higher education resources. The LEAD Program (Leadership for Education and Developoment) anually selects two students from each of Egypt’s 27 governorates to attend the American University of Cairo. The scholarships are reserved […]
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