The monsoon rain finally arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal this week, on June 25. Some people cheered and laughed in the rain, before running for cover or bringing out their umbrellas. Over the next 4 month, 80-90% of the years “water supply” will arrive from the sky, since rainfall is the only source of water in [...]

HAITI | FALL 2008
Since 1804, when it became the world’s first black republic after a successful slave revolt, Haiti has seen few periods of stability. Today the small Caribbean nation faces the most significant challenges of any country in the Western Hemisphere. In this failed state severe poverty, endemic corruption, high unemployment, pervasive hunger, and [...]

While phrases such as ‘holocaust’, ‘a tidal wave of fire’ or ‘being at the center of a perfect fire-storm’ were bandied around in the small groups of traumatised residents clustered in what remained of their friends and neighbours houses after Australias most devastating bushfires, almost nothing could adequately describe the complete anihilation of the village [...]