Do know of other interesting blogs?
I am always looking for interesting links. For this section, I am interested in blogs or sites:
- by aid workers or development workers,
- from expats and adventurers living in or travelling through exotic places.
- promoting humanitarian activism, aid news, development issues...
- well written
- regularly updated
- appealing (aid blogs should contain pictures)
- inspiring
- be at least six months old
- preferably in English, as most of my audience reads English.
How can you forward me a blog, or remark?
Either drop me a note via peter (at) theroadtothehorizon (dot) org
or even easier: leave a comment in this post.
Thanks for helping in keeping this list up to date!
Peter
Peter. Flemish, European, aid worker, expeditioner, sailor, traveller, husband, father, friend, nutcase. Not necessarily in that order.
26 comments:
Hi,
an interesting Thailand Blog:
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We would be interested in a link exchange.
best regards
anuparp
Hi Anuparp,
will be watching your blog and see after a couple of months if the posts keep coming! With you the best of luck.
PS: there is something wrong with your template... The way I view it, your posts start only to show where the text in your side columns stops...
P.
Thanks for adding my blog, Owen Abroad (at www.owen.org/blog)
You've listed it as US. Actually I live in Ethiopia, in Addis Ababa.
You might also be interested in my development podcast, Development Drums:
http://developmentdrums.org
@Owen: thanks for the input. Thought to have seen in your 'about' section you were in the US..
Have corrected.
Hey, I was in Addis 3 weeks ago. we could have had a beer!
Will look at (listen to) your podcast asap...!
P.
Hi Peter
Love your site - I've put a link to it in my site.
Would like you to consider mine for inclusion in the expat blogs section.
www.hollisramblings.blogspot.com
I'm a Canadian - ex-Aid Worker but living and working in Ghana now for the past 12 years..
Hi Holli,
I will. You will see it in the next update.
Peter
Hi - love the blog - a real gem of a find. I am relatively new to blogging and would be thrilled to have my url included on your site. Keep up the good work - Paul,
http://headdowneyesopen.blogspot.com/
@Conneally
Will include it in my 'aidresources' chapter in the side column. You will see it in the next release!
P.
Thanks for the great site.
Here in Eastern Congo I don't get to talk to too many expats so it is fascinating to see such a collection of blogs from aid workers across the world. If you could add my blog, I'd appreciate it.
@Shona:
Glad to add your blog! Will be up in the next release of the aidblogs widget!!
There are not that many blogging aidworkers around, so I am always happy with 'a new discovery'!!
Can I add your blog to the list of http://www.aidworkers.net aidblogs too?
Hi,
I'm an aid worker currently in the Philippines, so here's some self promotion of my blog http://chasingcarly.blogspot.com
Cheers,
Carly.
@carla @amstravels
will add, thanks!
Hi fascinating blog - an inspiration to us all. Thought you might be interested in @learnasone (www.learnasone.org), which blogs about the schools it helps to fund.
Thanks Cueball! that blog looks interesting... will include it!
P
not really an aid worker, but occassional musings on Juba, Southern Sudan: rovingbandit.blogspot.com
@Lee: thanks! will include it in my expat blogroll...
Hi Peter:
We are a small nonprofit in rural Uganda working on poverty, health, and education issues. Our blog is updated by one of our staff members in Uganda.
www.ugandavillageproject.org
@uvp
thank you.
@The Team at Uganda Village Project
I had your blog already on my blogroll (http://delicious.com/nonprofitblogs) and updates are propagated through http://humanitariannews.org and http://nonprofitblogs.info
but I did not have your main site... I will include that one on my next update for the blogroll of the The Road to the Horizon!
thanks for the tip, and keep up the good work!
Peter
Please look up http://chhayapath.blogspot.com/
@Nisha: thanks... I will add your blog to the "aidblogs" list, next release!
Peter
Hi Peter, my blog is very new and I am trying to enlighten Nigerians and Africans in general about the wild polio virus. I also talk about various public health issues and the role individuals have to play in their immediate environments.
my blog is www.kickpolio.wordpress.com
Cheers,
Zainab
Hi Peter,
Still no word from you as regards my blog...will it be added to your next updated lists?
Thanks,
Zainab
@Zainab,
I am glad that you found inspiration in the #IFWF3 work. It is good to define the purpose of your blog as you did... More insights will follow as you go along...
One tip: if you take over articles from other blogs, then I'd suggest to only take over excerpts (not the whole article), and to certainly put a link back to the original article (e.g. "Read the full article", and then link back. Or "Original article published on..." and a link back)..
On list blogs in my list: blogs need to be at least 6 months old. So remind me in a couple of months, and I can include it..
Best of luck to you!
Peter
Thanks for the tip Peter...and yes, i will definitely remind you about the addition in a few months time..
Regards,
ZAINAB
I would be honored if you would include my blog in your blog roll. I'm a young American teaching in the south of France for the past three years. I realized that I could not settle for an ordinary life as soon as I moved to Europe, and have decided to make my life here. It has not been easy, but I'm finding that the sacrifices have been worth it. When I'm not teaching English and learning valuable life lessons, I'm either painting for traveling throughout Europe and North Africa.
http://jamienoelle.blogspot.fr/
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