Blog Post: A world most will never see ›
Topics: Urban, Marginalized Groups, Health, Food/Nutrition
Most of us in wealthy nations are used to a world of consumption - we rarely see where what we purchase is produced.
Blog Post: More happiness and laughter ›
I feel a bit odd talking so much about happiness but, honestly, that's what I'm feeling here in Banda Aceh.
Blog Post: Today is sweet ›
Banda Aceh's miraculous recovery was driven by things as small and sweet as a cake.
Blog Post: Taste test in North Jakarta ›
Topics: Urban, Health, Food/Nutrition, Children
Early this morning, I visited a couple food carts in North Jakarta, ate some healthy food and ended up being a pretty good billboard.
Blog Post: Urban fish tales ›
Topics: Water/Sanitation, Urban, Health, Food/Nutrition, Environment, Climate Change
Where there is water, men will fish. But I never imagined I'd see lines cast smack dab in the middle of Jakarta, a megapolitan city of at least 8.5 million people.
Blog Post: Fourteen ways the world changed today ›
Today, our 14 workshop students presented their photographs and written stories to the group. I am awed by what I saw and heard.
Blog Post: Exploring Jakarta's hidden city ›
Topics: Water/Sanitation, Urban, Marginalized Groups, Livelihoods, Environment, Displacement, Citizen Involvement
Today we brought more than a dozen Mercy Corps staff to Penjaringan, Jakarta's biggest slum — to continue the writing and photography training we began yesterday.
Blog Post: Storytelling 101 ›
Topics: Urban
After enduring more than 20 hours of flights to reach Jakarta, we taught a full day's worth of classes on writing and photography to 15 staff at the Mercy Corps office here.
Blog Post: Memories and departure ›
Topics: Emergencies, Displacement
The first time that Indonesia really came into my consciousness was the early morning of December 26, 2004. Almost five years later, I'm on my way to Jakarta, Indonesia's capital.
Addressing the Impact of Climate Change in Indonesian Slums ›
Topics: Climate Change, Urban
Mercy Corps, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Urban and Regional Development Institute (URDI) today announced a partnership to address the potentially dire effects that climate change will have on the poorest people in Indonesia’s cities.
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