No shortage of dumb aid and dumb reporting

Actually it isn’t that hard to do good.  About the same as not being dumb.  FAVL is run by two PhDs… come and report on us, we dare you.  Whassa matter, Ouagadougou too scaaaary???? My ten year old can handle it, why can’t you?

Planet Money listeners were moved to donate some $3,000, which the principal of the school thought would be enough to build a school. A few months later, the money was gone, and all there was to show for it was .

We thought that would be the end of it. Then we heard from Tim Myers, a retired contractor from Colorado who decided to go to Haiti to build the school — and who realized, in 2011, that .

via Episode 460: It’s Hard To Do Good : Planet Money : NPR.

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Economist at Santa Clara University and Director of Friends of African Village Libraries.
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