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July 2016

  • Syrian refugees and migrants walk in a field to cross the border between Greece and F.Y.R. of Macedonia

    Secret aid worker
    Secret aid worker: 'the field' is not a lab where you can experiment without consequence

  • OFFICE SPACE, Stephen Root, 1999

    Secret aid worker
    Secret aid worker: consultants aren't the problem, it's the people who hire us

June 2016

  • Woman on phone

    Secret aid worker
    Secret aid worker: 'It's time to talk about the dark side of development comms'

  • Displaced people in South Sudan

    Secret aid worker
    Secret aid worker: my bra stopped me from running into the path of gunfire

May 2016

  • Group of white, middle-aged men in suits seated at a round conference table

    Secret aid worker
    Secret aid worker: 'It is time to pass the UN leadership baton to a new generation'

    The humanitarian sector needs to replace its leaders who struggle in a time of professionalism, mass communications and cost efficiency
  • Mortar board on ground

    Secret aid worker
    Secret aid worker: I'm sick of job rejections - is humanitarian work only for the elite?

    I thought a job in NGO fundraising was my route into the aid world. A year later, I’m back on the job market feeling disillusioned
  • Man behind bars in silhouette

    Secret aid worker
    Secret aid worker: I regret not speaking out for my LGBT colleagues

    If I was outed, I could fly out of the country tomorrow, but for my national colleagues this is not an option. How can I mobilise that guilt to action?

April 2016

  • Kids push aid truck in Iraq

    Secret aid worker
    Secret aid worker: can only the childless and unattached manage the work we do?

  • Land Rover

    Secret aid worker
    Secret aid worker: who will save the white saviours from themselves?

  • Earthquake hits Indian Kashmir<br>epa05252586 A Kashmiri man captures pictures with his mobile phone of a house damaged by an earthquake in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 10 April 2016. A 6.6 magnitude earthquake jolted Indian Kashmir in the afternoon forcing people out of their homes, however, there was no immediate report of loss of lives.  EPA/FAROOQ KHAN

    Reshaping humanitarian action
    10 of the best humanitarians to follow on social media

  • Remains of hospital after it was hit by a U.S. airstrike in Kunduz, Afghanistan

    Secret aid worker
    Secret aid worker: what should doctors do when we witness human rights abuses?

March 2016

  • People riding on British pound banknotes in sky above city.

    Secret aid worker
    Secret aid worker: Why do expats earn more than the rest of us?

    I’m a well-educated national aid worker who negotiated my salary up, but it’s still a fraction of my expatriate colleagues’ pay
  • Can aid workers be likened to Hannibal and his motley crew?

    Secret aid worker
    Secret aid worker: no matter where we work, we are all part of The A-Team

    The spotlight is often on the humanitarians fighting Ebola or getting aid into Syria. Aren’t those working in under-the-radar disasters heroes too?
    • Secret aid worker
      Secret aid worker: My child has a life-limiting illness, was I right to go back to work?

    • Secret aid worker
      Secret aid worker: buzzwords are killing development

    • Secret aid worker
      Secret aid worker: why I hide my Israeli identity

February 2016

  • Syrian refugees interviewed for resettlement

    Secret aid worker
    Secret aid worker: I hate calling refugees to tell them they're not getting resettled

    What would you do if a family’s future lay in your hands?

January 2016

  • Close up of African boy raising hand

    Secret aid worker
    Secret aid worker: 'I was the obscure African girl in a room full of white faces’

    The room still falls silent when I speak but it no longer bothers me as I’m here to make a difference, not be a nodding head

December 2015

  • Community educators for the Centre for Liberian Assistance

    Your NGO heroes of 2015

  • Family portrait illustration.

    Confessions of a humanitarian
    Confessions of a humanitarian: My New Year’s resolution? Saving the world of course

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