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Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Fight for All the People

Classroom I visited in rural Ethiopia, 2018
We are facing down the apocalypse. Today the administration attempted to cut all assistance (for things like Medicaid, school lunches, meals on wheels, education assistance) for vulnerable people he ostensibly has more reason to care about. If that's how the administration is willing to treat citizens (but for an emergency injunctive order because a consortium of States sued), what hope do vulnerable people in other countries have?  

Sunday, January 26, 2025

90 Days is Too Long to Wait

Children in front of a tailor's shop in a refugee camp 
Four days after I returned home from the Chicago Marathon, I left for Chad. For
security reasons, I didn't post about my trip while I was there, and I won't be sharing specifics of where I visited. Anything I share in this post reflects my own views, and not that of any organization I have worked for or met with.