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| The Road to the Horizon |
| Short stories about life as a humanitarian aid worker, about expeditions and sailing, travelling to remote places, about war, ambushes and sceneries. But mostly about enjoying the road more than reaching the destination. |
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| Happy 2012 everyone. Now start changing the world, will you? |
| 2011-12-31 14:39:44 |
Since we kicked off our Kiva microfinance project "Change Starts Here" in November 2008, our Kiva Lending Team has already funded over 1,500 projects, for a total value of US$54,000. Check out our project score card on our Have Impact! blog.
In 2011, I had a wide range of sponsors for the blogs I manage. After deducting the running costs for my blogs, I want to invest the left-over funds in our microfinance project "Change Starts Here" . Seems like a good way to start 2012 off on a good...
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| Looking for a job as an aidworker? Here is a good start! |
| 2011-12-24 03:20:00 |
Ever since I wrote the post on "How to become an aidworker", I get mail from people asking for advice. Most struggle with getting into "the system", which is indeed the hardest part: "getting through that solid iron gate".
Part of the problem is that people don't know where to look for vacancies. Job announcements in the aid and nonprofit sector are spread in many different places. I tried to change that, and built an aggregator. AidJobs collecting job vacancies in the international aid...
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| Teased bull frog eats finger |
| 2011-12-24 02:15:30 |
An African bull frog is trying to catch ants on an smartphone screen. Kinda funny.
Is even more funny when he takes revenge..
Discovered via AllTop
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| Where the hell is Matt? |
| 2011-12-16 11:03:59 |
This is really sweet.
From his website:
Matt is a 35-year-old deadbeat from Connecticut who used to think
that all he ever wanted to do in life was make and play videogames. Matt
achieved this goal pretty early and enjoyed it for a while, but
eventually realized there might be other stuff he was missing out on. In
February of 2003, he quit his job in Brisbane, Australia and used the
money he'd saved to wander around Asia until it ran out. He made this
site so he could keep...
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| The UN debate of the day: Where is the 7 billionth baby born? |
| 2011-10-31 09:42:10 |
From our UN-correspondent: In 1999, the UN decided the 6 billionth (is it 6 billionth or 6th billion or 6th billionth?) human being would be born in Sarajevo (picture). The fact that the Balkan area was still recovering from a nasty war, made that decision easy.
For months now, the UN member states have been debating when and where the 7 billionth member of our human community was to be born.
The US veto'd any country which had more than 10% of muslim population, forgetting that would not...
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| Video: Wear your seat belt |
| 2011-10-25 12:52:32 |
Amazing what emotional impact a good video clip can make, no?
PS: Updated the post. Video fixed.
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| The status of the world, according to the Global Hunger Index 2011 |
| 2011-10-12 07:28:10 |
IFPRI (The International Food Policy Research Institute) just published its 6th annual Global Hunger Index. If you want an overview of the state of the world, related to poverty, hunger, and overall development achievements, I think this is a must-read.
The Index combines three equally weighted indicators into one score:
the proportion of people who are undernourished,
the proportion of children under five who are underweight, and
the under-five child mortality rate.
The 2011...
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| Steve Jobs: Lessons on life |
| 2011-10-07 07:31:29 |
Steve Jobs (RIP) talking about his lessons on life, to young Stanford University graduates.
About dropping out to drop in at college, about the trust that one day the dots in your life will connect. About to love doing what you do. About not loosing the limited time you have on Earth, by living someone else's life.
Truly inspiring. Reminded me of Randy Pausch's Last Lecture.
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| Calling on the good and willing |
| 2011-08-24 21:35:21 |
After 17 years in the field, working in front line humanitarian emergency response, of which 15 years in food aid relief, I took a sabbatical break. Taking a distance allowed me to discover an other side of the humanitarian work, something more longer term, but with no less impact: agricultural development.
Over the past sabbatical year, I had the opportunity to work with a team at CGIAR, mostly on social media related projects. That work brought me to the field, talking to farmers about...
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