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Leading a Short Term Trip: My 2 cents
The Short Term Trip… It’s how we all got started. A big majority of people in the humanitarian/non-profit/NGO world got their start by following some sort of burning to get involved, some desire to help, some passion to be there for those marginalized and crushed by poverty. In every case that first two weeks in the third-world, changed [...]
Continue ReadingThe Most Important “L” of All: Local Ownership
On my first trip to Africa I was excited. Excited to experience the mystical continent, travel all over the place, and make a difference! So we got some basic training on how to build bio-sand water filters and off we went to east Africa. We arrived in Kenya and promptly went to sourcing all the [...]
Continue ReadingThe Three L’s
Humanitarian development is hard because development is about not about projects, it’s about people. At GHNI we run a rural village development program called TCD. About three quarters of the program is coaching, the other quarter is demonstrating simple projects and ideas that people in a village can take and run with and teach to their neighbors. If [...]
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