Nairobi The ACORN Kenya community organizers, Sammy Ndirangu and David Musungu, met Judy Duncan, head organizer of ACORN Canada, Drummond Pike formerly of Tides and now colleague at Paladin Partners, and me just outside of the Korogocho mega-slum at 350,000 people, the 2nd largest in Nairobi after the more famous Kibera. We were to meet …
Category: Education
Education is Not Reducing Poverty
New Orleans Anytime there’s an article with a headline that claims there is “hope for the world’s poorest” and the author is someone as sturdy as New York Times columnist David Leonhardt, my fingers are crossed and my eyes are flying. In this case he was touting a new book and argument by a British …
Michelle’s Fitness Program and No School Lunches?
New Orleans Michelle Obama is doing a great high-profile job around children’s fitness and obesity. These are health issues that are critical in the community and deserve full support. But, how do we reconcile the fact that at the same time we’re reading about her initiatives here, we are also reading about children being dunned, …