Why I Am Glad I Did Not Give Up on International Volunteering
I have spent over half my life involved with international volunteering in some way. During that time I have experienced just about all the...
Foreign Aid FAQs – #4 “Overseas aid charities are fraudulent”
We’ve all been there – you’re walking down the high street and someone in a brightly coloured t-shirt stops you to ask for donations...
International Development is Under Attack: We need a new approach
In this article, our Communications Manager Mark Normington argues that the responses overseas aid charities have made to recent attacks from the right-wing press...
Crowdfunding NGOs: a recipe for success?
Ending all forms of malnutrition by 2030 was one of the main objectives adopted in the Sustainable Development Goals at the end of 2015....
The Make Poverty History Campaign- Did It Create a Generation of Global Citizens?
You may remember the Make Poverty History campaign largely as a result of the iconic white band, a representation of the Global Call to...
The Good Project by Monika Krause: Book Review
Monika Krause author of “The Good Project” argues that NGOs are incentivised to continually churn out “good projects”. That in reality, once you scratch...
WHO: are unpaid internships undermining helping those most in need?
The Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) stands out as a center of international cooperation to build health systems and combat disease. It achieves this...
Journalists and NGOs- working better together?
In this article, Lorraine Patch problematises the relationship between development agencies and media outlets, considering their differences, and exploring how they can work better together. ...
7 Apps Making The World A Better Place
In this age of constant connection, there are concerns about the implications of living a life constantly “plugged in.” We have never been so...
The Politics of Band Aid
Does the backlash against Band-Aid centre attention upon the politics of celebrity activism? Charlotte Fraser looks at the role it has in detracting attention away from broader, structural...
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India experiences the joy of giving
As the UK announces plans to halt its aid to India and NGOs draw funding out of rural areas to focus more on the...