Barely a day goes by where a cause of some sort doesn’t call for our attention, action or cash. The immediacy and reach of the internet has intensified this, and – as Sarah and Hannah Spyksma discuss in this weblog – are contributing to a blurring of what we call and consume as news versus that we engage with as advocacy. Continue →
Category Archives: HUMANITARIAN
Q&A | Dr Martina Fuchs on delivering holistic humanitarian relief with RMF
In 2005 Dr Martina Fuchs, founder and CEO at Real Medicine Foundation (RMF), took her pediatric skills to Sri Lanka to assist in the relief efforts of the catastrophic 2004 Southeast Asian tsunami. What began as a one-person humanitarian response to deliver medical assistance quickly evolved into a broader reconceptualisation of humanitarian work in post-disaster settings. Continue →