Essay: How non-profits abroad can fill gaps when the US Government cuts off foreign aid

In an article first published on The Conversation, SUSAN APPE, a scholar of foreign aid, looks at the disruption to US aid and how locally based organisations can respond and adapt…
Community

Are we losing the ability to live in community? PICTURE: Kylie Lugo/Unsplash Once we were forced to live together. Small houses, large families. You had to make it work, there was no-where else to go. Now we don’t join communities. We look for people who are the same as us online, and hang out with them. […]
UN halts some programs in Afghanistan after ban on women aid workers

United Nations Reuters The United Nations said on Wednesday that some “time-critical” programs in Afghanistan have temporarily stopped and warned many other activities will also likely need to be paused because of a ban by the Taliban-led administration on women aid workers. UN aid chief Martin Griffiths, the heads of UN agencies and several aid […]
“God have mercy”: Tigray residents describe life under siege

CARA ANNA, of Associated Press, reports on life inside a war zone…