More voices coming soon….

Non-English versions of the survey coming soon Though I don’t have any firm numbers to go by, a quick scan of available data is that English is not the first language of most humanitarian aid workers.  While it is a fact of life that the default language of many (most?) organizations in the aid world industry is English (with French coming in a very strong second), of the over 300,000 aid and development workers globally I’ll repeat:  for most English is at best a second language. This fact is perhaps reflected in our data in that we have attracted a very small number of local aid workers:                                 Our main goal in taking on this project was to provide a space for more discussion about the lives and views of aid workers and so, toward … Continue reading More voices coming soon….