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Habitat for Humanity Vietnam is about people. It’s about changing lives—about facing the fact of poverty and believing we can make a difference. For the people employed at Habitat Vietnam, for those who volunteer, those who donate and those whose … Continue reading
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For me Vietnam was more about the people than the place–more about the faces than the spaces. It was both about the folks helped by the NGOs that work there and about the friendships we formed along the way. It’s because of these … Continue reading
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I hope you will join me today in welcoming Sara to the blog in an official capacity. Regular readers will know that Sara is my partner—an amazing and accomplished person (of course, I’m not biased)—an architect by training, international aid … Continue reading
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Tooting my own horn isn’t a primary vice of mine. However, I’d love you to read a guest post I did for Jacquelin Cangro’s amazing and inspiring “Shine” series—a post I’m pretty proud of. About my partner Sara’s work responding to … Continue reading
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I’ll ask you to imagine for a minute— Imagine living in a camp in Port-au-Prince, camps where more than 630 thousand live in tents. Imagine living in a tent—not even a tent—a make shift shelter of tarps—tent-like, at best. Imagine living … Continue reading
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Every morning in Haiti we fought to get our car started. A little black Kia, capable of climbing some seriously steep Port-au-Prince streets, started, stalled, started and stalled again. If we revved the engine it would eventually, after a good … Continue reading
