Category: Non Profits
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From the Killing Fields to Kibera
It’s been a surreal couple of days. I went from New Years Eve in Seattle, Washington, watching a laser light show themed “outer space,” straight to the killing fields of central Cambodia, an area where Pol Pot’s troops devastated the population, killing roughly one fourth of Cambodia’s people. (Skulls left as testament of Khmer Rouge…
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JK Rowling and the power of imagination
I’ve realized something as of late. I’m not who I thought I was. I’ve always self-identified as ‘someone who cared.’ Someone who meant to do decent things in the world, and as such, I got jobs that loosely fit that description. I’ve worked, for the last 10 years, at organizations I thought did “good” things…
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Infidel and agency
I recently read the book “Infidel” by Ayaan Hirschi Ali – and it definitely puts my trip in a different perspective. I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again…I recognize that I’m insanely lucky to undergo a trip like the one I am taking. And, I’m not just lucky in that I currently have…
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Oxfam – It’s complicated
Oxfam, it’s complicated…People often said this at Oxfam, and simply put, it meant that the organization was, well, complicated. The inner workings of the organization, the day-to-day business of coordinating thousands of people in hundreds of places, all of whom were trying to do related, but different things – this made for a place that…
Sarah PecK 