Humanitarian Relief

Provide clean water

Sheila Liaugminas | 04 April 2011

At the very least, we can do that.

The Ivory Coast is not so far away

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 March 2011

If you are a humanitarian, are there limits to relief efforts? With all the news lately reporting on the “international community” responding to the crisis in Libya (Yemen, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, the entire region..), the question arises: How can our concern about human crises be directed to some populations while ignoring others?

Japan’s disaster

Sheila Liaugminas | 12 March 2011

You can see a hurricane coming. But violent eruptions of nature like the back to back assaults of an 8.9 magnitude earthquake followed by a deadly tsunami just happen. With no warning. They are stunning in their randomness and fury and they are terrifying because of both. And because it could happen anywhere, anytime.