Peace Corps has been in Honduras for the past 50 years. For the past 50 years Honduras has also received aid from various other organizations, governments, and charitable groups. Why then is Honduras ranked the 3rd poorest country in the Western Hemisphere (after Haiti and Nicaragua) ? Why has it no[...]
Posts Tagged ‘donating’
Helping Haiti: Things to Consider
Originally published on the Idealist.org homepage, this post has three sections: Donations; Volunteering Locally to Support Efforts in Haiti; and Volunteering in Haiti. Idealist staff Jeremy MacKechnie, Amy Potthast, Erin Barnhart, Eric Fichtl, Scott Stadum, and Julia Smith contributed. The outpouri[...]
September 3rd, 2009 - 8:20 pm § in Around Town, Guatemala
Money, Money, Money
For every traveler or volunteer living in an impoverished country, the question of money donations arises. The sad-looking woman with her tiny baby and the plastic bowl for coins by her side on the street; the man with one leg and his hand out….these are the obvious ones, and each person dec[...]
