Humanitarian Financing Reading List

Through the course of heading an open source initiative improving humanitarian crowdfunding, I find myself talking a lot about humanitarian financing. Here’s some informative papers/reports on humanitarian financing on my reading list for anyone interested in the…

The Floating School of Makoko

I recently came across the inspiring story of the floating school of Makoko in Lagos. Architect Kunlé Adeyemi found himself drawn to Makoko, a slum located in the coastal African city of Lagos where many of the buildings are erected on piers that reach to the bottom of the…

The forgotten war

“This is a large battle. It’s not little skirmishes between militias. There’s tanks involved. There’s been aerial bombardment by MiG and Sukhoi fighter jets.”

That’s how Ryan Boyette described life in the Nuba Mountains, an area in Sudan that sits north of the South…