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Don't Try This Abroad

Today, read this: a most fantastic discussion about the Kristof “Do-It-Yourself” Foreign aid op-ed that came out recently. Do you agree with the criticisms raised in this piece? Or are you solidly on Team Kristof?

 

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Keena Seyfarth

Keena Seyfarth is a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, getting a combination Masters degree in International Health and Humanitarian Assistance at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and International Development and International Economics at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. She has lived much of her life in rural Africa, and traveled extensively through southern and eastern Africa. She recently returned from six months in Ethiopia, where she worked for the public hospital system.