#beyond charity

[halesmanifesto-blog]

“Didn’t expect everything to be so... loud,” she sighed, hovering at the edge of the festivities, depriving herself of the food despite her protesting stomach. As innocuous as the festivities were, the lack of urgency among the campers-- nope, residents, this was not Camp Half-Blood-- surprised her. 

[oxfamindia]

The Story Behind Beyond Charity (Oxfam India's 10 Year Journey)

This was a common question that was often thrown at me by colleagues, mostly, during the two years that I worked on my book.

For the book I visited some projects that I hadn't been to in the preceding three years as a research coordinator. One of them was the refugee camps set up after the Muzaffarnagar violence in 2013.