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Shantha Bloemen

Shantha Bloemen

Understanding Poor-Country Debt

How do poor countries finance their development?

Nov 18, 2018

Understanding Poor-Country Debt

Nov 18, 2018

Shantha Bloemen

A future stolen: Young and out of school

I lived in war-torn Liberia in 1997. At the time I moved there, a decade of civil war had decimated the public education system. The…

Oct 11, 2018

Oct 11, 2018

Shantha Bloemen

Why the electric mobility revolution should not bypass Africa’s rural women

When I was 23 and beginning a career in international development, I lived in a rural Zambian village. Like every other household there, I…

Oct 10, 2018

Why the electric mobility revolution should not bypass Africa’s rural women

Oct 10, 2018

Shantha Bloemen

REFLECTIONS ON CHINA, AFRICA & DEVELOPMENT

Being opaque and lack of transparency are common complaints about China’s foreign aid. The analysis often starts from the basis that there…

Aug 23, 2018

REFLECTIONS ON CHINA, AFRICA & DEVELOPMENT

Aug 23, 2018

Shantha Bloemen

Una McCauley — Memories from Monrovia

It was shortly after I arrived in Liberia in January 1997 as a UNV, that I first met Una McCauley. As the Save the Children Programme…

May 29, 2018

Una McCauley — Memories from Monrovia

May 29, 2018

Shantha Bloemen

The power of the bully

The report was laid out in front of me by the headmaster of my son’s school. A report by a teacher on his performance during two months of…

May 8, 2018

May 8, 2018

Shantha Bloemen

Challenging Charity Stereotypes

I was in one of the busiest central parts of the Sydney when I came across an image I had not seen in years: a poor African child with…

May 8, 2018

Challenging Charity Stereotypes

May 8, 2018

Shantha Bloemen

Farewell Robert & Grace Mugabe

Change finally comes in an unexpected way

Nov 15, 2017

Farewell Robert & Grace Mugabe

Nov 15, 2017

Shantha Bloemen

#FREE MARTHA — Another Zimbabwe must be possible

I keep on thinking of Martha O’Donovan, a 25-year-old American woman, spending another night in Harare’s notorious remand prison, an awful…

Nov 8, 2017

#FREE MARTHA — Another Zimbabwe must be possible

Nov 8, 2017

Shantha Bloemen

Sustaining structures of hope in rural Kenya: the challenge of funding community development

This last week, in my various tasks with the GFCF, I have been working with Wem Intergrated Health Services (or WEMIHS), a community based…

Oct 11, 2017

Sustaining structures of hope in rural Kenya: the challenge of funding community development

Oct 11, 2017

Shantha Bloemen

Shantha Bloemen

An international idealist who dreams of world peace. Worked in Africa and Asia. Interested in redefining stereotypes and people focused development.

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