Nairobi I opened my current issue of National Geographic on the plane between Detroit and Amsterdam. The cover was about Jamestown, which didn’t hold much interest for me frankly, but what a surprise to find a feature about the giant Dharavi slum in Mumbai, which we had recently visited and discussed. The piece by Mark …
Category: ACORN
Burger King for Hurricane Recovery
New Orleans We need your help in seeing if we can get some money for the ACORN Institute Hurricane Rebuilding and Recovery Fund. I’m not going to tell you for the gazillionth time how much we have been doing, but it’s a truckload, and you can access all of that by hitting www.acorn.org and then any …
Last Day in Delhi
Delhi Everything changes and we are part of it, but just not enough changes fast enough and sometimes it is not the right things that are changing. We ran around Delhi on the last day in a schizophrenic rush of contradictions. How else can I describe a morning spent in Bawana, one of the large …