There is a poverty in Swaziland that is difficult to describe and it is a poverty unlike I have seen anywhere else in Africa. It is largely rural, pastoral and dots the countryside of a thousand hills. Today, I was with The Luke Commission, a mobile hospital – some would call it a clinic – [...]
Dedicated to the staff, partners, and beneficiaries of SAI/Servant Forge “Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death – you are with me.” That you are with me promise jumps off the page and seizes my heart and my head every time I read it. In my 63 years, I have certainly [...]
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In a DC neighborhood, I talked with a family facing homelessness because their benefits and assets had just run out. More recently, I visited a Tribal Community in Oklahoma, and a slum community in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Despite the complex arguments and battles over aid vs. development… I always come back to a simple image that continues to transform my thinking about how we address poverty.
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We are all familiar with the clichés of “show me the money” or in investigations related to property crime or corruption, “follow the money.” The point of these phrases is that there is an object that defines our behavior or actions. I must confess I am an unashamed and unabashed pursuer of money. Over the [...]
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