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Blog: Ruminating on the Radio: Advice for International Volunteers & Aid Workers

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Megan Schiebe of Travel Volunteer Search interviews Jennifer Lentfer of how-matters.org on blogtalkradio’s Global Humanitarian Discussions. You can listen to the 14-minute interview via the links below:

Some paraphrased quotes from the interview:

“Our individual learning process of how we develop our role or calling as helpers is one of the most important parts of our effectiveness.”

“How do we struggle with the fact that helping is hard and that there aren’t any simple solutions to helping the poor?”

Blog: Spotting Community Ownership

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The term “community-based” has been eroded. Just like “rights-based programming,” or “participation,” or “capacity building,” it has become over-used and thus less understood in the development sector.

Blog: The Carpenters and the Rude Man

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My foot braked as my eyes beheld the sight. As I drove through a quiet, tree-lined street in Lilongwe’s residential Area 3, fifty to sixty men carried a large, wooden A-frame above their heads, obviously for a large building under construction.