Dear Readers, The time has come to say goodbye as our blog What The Aid is coming to an end. But let us first recap the last weeks. The main goal of our blog was to raise awareness and encourage you, our readers, to reflect on our leading thread innovation …
I told them that a refugee is simply someone who is trying to make a home. (JJ Bola, 2018, 2:26) [20] In his poem, JJ Bola pictures refugees as simple and human as in that quote, contrary to how refugees are often represented in on- and offline mainstream media. As …
“I remember when we first stepped off the plane. Everything was foreign. Unfamiliar. Uninviting. Even the air in my lungs left me short of breath. We came here to find refuge. They called us refugees […]”. (JJ Bola, 2018) JJ Bola came as a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the …
In 2020, Anastasia Reesa Tomkin wrote this text about the white leadership of non profits, in which she states that non profits are over 80% white led. (83% to be exact.) Admittedly, that statistic is two years old by now, but it is hard to imagine that it would drastically …
Except for providing thought provoking content, a blog also needs to have a visual component. While discussing the visual aspect in the What the Aid collective, we were faced with dilemmas associated with sharing pictures online. Among other things, there are copyright issues, consent issues, ethical considerations, and the use …
