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Accountability in the disaster-relief world

Hello from Dubai, where I’m on a long layover on my way home from my 13th deployment for ShelterBox. I want to take some time to tell you a little bit about something I don’t think a lot of folks…

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When Your People are Hurting: Part II

Part II: Far In 2012, I went to Peru with ShelterBox. In the state we were working in, pocket communities needed shelter after their homes had come down in mudslides. And in 2011, in Arkansas, a community needed help after…

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When Your People Are Hurting: Part I

Part I: Near In the summer of 1999, I was living in New York and pursuing the beginnings of a dream career. That same summer, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake jilted my home country of Taiwan. It was big enough to…

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HELLO THERE I KNOW I HAVE BEEN GONE A LONGGGG TIME

HELLO THERE I KNOW I HAVE BEEN GONE A LONGGGG TIME

Hello! I have missed you guys. Well. I have not really been gone. I have been dutifully sending out a monthly newsletter. You can see a sample and sign up to get it here. But I actually do have something…

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Shelter, Warmth, Dignity–and Education

Hello. Two Fridays ago I returned from Haiti, where ShelterBox, the disaster-relief agency I volunteer for, is helping the nation to recover from Hurricane Matthew. As always, there are many different things I saw and people I met that left me…

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#45daysof, or Adam Kimble in Claremont

This weekend we had visitors. They were unexpected and joyous and dashed about our house, a little group of sleek-headed, very effective, very friendly otters. (I have established this week that otters are not naturally friendly. They are cute for the…

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All Your Creature Comforts are Relative

Last month we went back to Malawi, for a check-up on how beneficiaries of ShelterBox’s kit are doing, and for an overview of how the country is recovering. I appreciate the ShelterBox deployments in part because they give me perspectives…

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Humanitarian Work: Why We Do It, and Why That Matters

In the waiting room of the Blantyre airport, a man asked what I was doing in Malawi. I told him, briefly, and then returned the favor: What is he doing in Malawi? Ah, he says, he’s helping a friend to…

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Smugness is ugly. And useless.

There’s a BMW spot out there that chaps my hide every time I hear it. The guy’s voice is rich, and vaguely cultured, but also incredibly self-satisfied. It talks about how BMW has been “first” in bla bla bla etcetera…

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hodge-podge brain dump

1. I just had a brainfart and tried to go to the blogger platform to add this post. As much as I love the flexibility this platform allows me, I think I really miss the user interface of blogger. Hm….

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