Staying Whole: How Humanitarian Aid Workers and International Development Practitioners Thrive in Port-au-Prince, HaitiCoder, Katherine E
Aid work is also unlike any other profession in that it is often very difficult to get your foot in the door. Since aid agencies’ work is global, they have truly international workforces; one competes for one’s job with intelligent, skilled, and well-motivated people from all over the ...
The way humanitarian aid workers are perceived has recently attracted increased attention, mainly because of the emergence of new elements in crisis contexts that challenge the very foundations of humanitarian action, and of growing difficulties in accessing populations in conflict zones.1 Different studie...
Lesson learned: always make it a priority to get a local phone asap as circumstances change but also, good to remind oneself of what life without internet looks like. I got more reading and work (familiarising myself with downloaded documents) done over two days with a much better focus th...
local corruption, coupled with that ofWestern energy firms such as Halliburton, the involvement of politicians like Dick Cheney, and complicity of banks like HSBC, alongside theexpanding influence of China, has led to the concentration of much of Nigeria’s resource wealth flowing to a select few...
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ACS has been delivering humanitarian aid to the places that need it most for more than 30 years. Ben Dinsdale explains how we’re able to respond so quickly.
Gupta says, researchers should focus on the types of AI that can make the biggest humanitarian impact. “How do we shift the focus of AI as a field to these immensely hard problems?” he asks. “[These are], in my opinion, much harder than—for example—generating new text or new ima...
Muslims around the world were celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday, marking the end of the Islamic holy month with prayers, family reunions, and sweet treats. But the celebrations were overshadowed by the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and Israel’s expected offensive in the city...