Music and dance are the basis for a collaborative creative youth project on migration, featuring groups in Colombus OH, and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
What can development work learn from fiction written by African authors? More than just a good story, Akin Ajayi argues
Laura Beltrán Villamizar set up NATIVE as a visual storytelling agency with a specific mission — ensuring that the best voices are able to tell important stories about our increasingly diverse world.
We are experiencing the most profound refugee crisis in living memory. But we remain largely unaware of its true origins: environmental exploitation, forced resettlement, artificial resentments stoked into conflict. Fighting environmental oppression can provide an entry point for addressing profound challenges across societies.
Climate change in India has created waves of internal migration, with a devastating impact on rural communities—particularly the most vulnerable members, women and children. Rachel Gerber and Jacob Sztokman describe the cycle of deprivation and marginalization that this led to —a prompt, should one be needed, for more assertive steps to protect the environment.
Homelessness, already a significant challenge in urban areas has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Homelessness is often accompanied by poor health, which together feeds a cycle of vulnerability and increased pressure on health care resources. Street Medicine, taking adapted healthcare services to the homeless, provides a bridge between the street and hospitals—improving outcomes and strengthening service delivery to a vulnerable population.
Music and dance are the basis for a collaborative creative youth project on migration, featuring groups in Colombus OH, and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
What can development work learn from fiction written by African authors? More than just a good story, Akin Ajayi argues
Published in 1958, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart has long been heralded as an inaugural moment in African fiction writing. This is true, but only up to a point. At the same time, a statement intended as praise misses a more important lesson that fiction writing from across the continent of Africa offers the wider world—then and now, for post-colonialists of the time and for development agencies and specialists today.
Laura Beltrán Villamizar set up NATIVE as a visual storytelling agency with a specific mission — ensuring that the best voices are able to tell important stories about our increasingly diverse world.
We are experiencing the most profound refugee crisis in living memory. But we remain largely unaware of its true origins: environmental exploitation, forced resettlement, artificial resentments stoked into conflict. Fighting environmental oppression can provide an entry point for addressing profound challenges across societies.
Tackling urban inequalities requires a plural approach, drawing from community knowledge and experiences. But it can sometimes be a challenge even to harness this resource. Kali Silverman presents the “Ladder of Participation” as a means of shaping a sustainable and practical response to social problems.
Climate change in India has created waves of internal migration, with a devastating impact on rural communities—particularly the most vulnerable members, women and children. Rachel Gerber and Jacob Sztokman describe the cycle of deprivation and marginalization that this led to —a prompt, should one be needed, for more assertive steps to protect the environment.
