Surfers take DIY foreign aid to Papua New Guinea

A couple of weeks back, Matador CEO Ross Borden sent me a link to a Nick Kristof article in The New York Times Magazine: DIY Foreign Aid Revolution.

The premise of a article was this: [I]ts not usually presidents as well as United Nations officials who thinly slice away at global challenges. Passionate individuals with great ideas can do a same, generally in a age of a Internet as well as social media.

Though Kristof said this revolution [is] so distant unnamed because it is only beginning, we could easily think of a dozen people we know by Matador whove been part of this revolution for a while.

Like Zack Parker.

1. While in Papua New Guinea surfing in 2007, Zack noticed which H2O as well as sanitation infrastructure were limited as well as caused serious health problems, together with death. Zack as well as his friend, Taylor, started articulate with locals about sanitation as well as health issues; soon, Walu International was formed.

2. The idea of Walu International is to work with residents of PNGs coastal communities to rise locally-based solutions to a stream sanitation problems. In a short film, Wheres Walu?, a singular male expresses how grateful he is for a organization, observant no normal foreign assist has ever reached his community.

3. Though he used to outlay his time seeking for perfect surf, Zacks right away fired up by getting a word out about Walu International as well as seeking support for a projects a appropriation in PNG.

4. Dave Algoso, writing for Foreign Policy, argued, Nick Kristof is wrong. Amateurs are not a future of foreign aid. Its true which DIY foreign assist has a risks. But suspicion by well, groups like Walu International may be able to fill vicious gaps stream assist as well as development projects only cant reach.

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