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Blind for 24 Hours

By Shawn Bell

A student doctor ‘went blind’ for 24 hours to raise awareness of, and money to combat, childhood blindness in the developing world. »

Development aid, Africa and the world is a bit more complex than that

By Farah Ahamed

This is written in response to Maddy Fry’s “Getting aid where it’s needed”, which I felt was inaccurate and misleading on many counts and written by a person who has no idea “about the current complexity reality of development aid”. Having worked in Africa all my life, and specifically in the development sector for nearly... »

Getting aid where it’s needed

By Maddy Fry

There’s no escaping from the fact that aid-giving is one of the most polarized issues in current geopolitics. The debate on development aid being so polarized, between those who believe that all aid given to the Third World is a waste and those who believe that more, not less giving, is the answer. There... »

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