“Humanitarian aid work is more and more like firefighters. We are not the ones in charge of pursuing those causing the fire to stop them, we just jump from one emergency to the other, and that will not change things for good.” -40yr old female expat aid worker   Putting out fires with gasoline Just a short rant as I deal with my demented news feed. The need for a coordinated, well resourced aid sector is, arguably, more acute just now than at any other time in history. The latest news from the UN  reports 20 million people- mostly children- are in danger of famine and starvation right now. To be clear this is a human made disaster. War and famine ‘feed’ each other in a demented death spiral, continually, not just yet again. These humanitarian crises are human made but, as the female expat aid worker notes above, those in the sector are just … Continue reading Putting out fires with gasoline