Tag: community development

Leading while in the Muddled Middle: Lessons from International Development Leadership

January 5, 2015

Written by Matthew Will. This post was originally found on LinkedIn and is reposted with the author’s permission. International development leadership is a mix of creating movements, managing people and budgets, and casting a constant vision of what a new reality could be. It is a world of emergence. The development leader is in what Michael […]

Counseling Refugee Children

October 6, 2014

“What are some feelings that a boy or girl your age might have?” My question is met with blank stares from twenty six- to eight-year-old first graders at the church’s small school for Syrian refugee children. This is our fourth group counseling session since I began volunteering at the school. I ask the question again in another way. […]

Compassion

August 25, 2014

Today’s post is written by Mike Sohm. When “compassion” is part of your name and identity, it speaks to what drives and motivates you as an organization. Compassion is not something you can fake or sustain long term on your own. It is revealed in response to something external to ourselves, and it often results in […]

The Gibeonite Policy

August 18, 2014

Today’s post is a guest post by Dianna Ullrich, who serves as an occupational therapist with CAMA in Kosovo. Read her original post here. If you have lived in a developing or recovering country as a westerner, you no doubt have experienced a plethora of requests. Requests come from people at the street lights asking […]

Ebola Confirmed Near Hope Clinic

August 4, 2014

Cases of the Ebola virus have now been confirmed in N’Zérékoré, the provincial capital located just a few miles from Hope Clinic in southern Guinea. While no cases have been seen at Hope Clinic itself, staff are now implementing higher-level precautions. In addition, Eau de la Vie (the non-government organization that CAMA helped launch and which now […]