(Excerpted from article in InterAction Monthly Developments, Jan/Feb 2012, pp. 17-18.) When disasters or crises strike and homes are lost, people don’t always wait for governments and international humanitarian agencies to lend a hand, but instead often rely on those close to them: family and friends. Hosting by family and friends is socially defined, self-selected, [...]
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Responding to the Crisis in the Sahel
Hopes and Challenges for the World’s Newest Country
Juba, Sudan: She sat in the shade of a transit tent at this port city on the White Nile, surrounded by her worldly possessions and eight children. A symbol of the hope and the challenges facing south Sudan as it moves towards independence on July 9, the woman arrived a week earlier by barge from [...]
USAID Assistance in Pakistan
By Mark Ward Day in and day out, the men and women of the United States Agency for International Development provide development assistance throughout the world, in environments that are not always safe. I have been in the Foreign Service with USAID for 24 years and currently have the honor of leading the Office of US Foreign Disaster [...]
