Activists prioritize women/children+escort & elderly/infirm but some always left to walk in the sun, on dirt roads. Tourist rides help a lot
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Allos Anthropos solidarity activists cooked 2,500 portions for refugees in Moria yday https://twitter.com/asteris/status/634683790758125569 … https://www.facebook.com/konpol64/posts/917343538300672 …
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Helping thousands of refugees feels like a mountain, until you see people like Eric, Melinda, Konstantinos reduce it to a molehill every day
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It's not a question of what if, but of capacity. Formal institutions are systematically failing their missionhttps://twitter.com/benborges_/status/636289787083816960 …
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To be scalable, direct aid networks must be efficient at attracting key competences & load-bearing (ie. protecting core people from burnout)
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Conversely, the aid system squanders too many resources on admin overhead to match effectiveness of direct aid networks. Evident in Lesvos
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If groups of people save lives, feed/clothe thousands, improve their conditions, the aid system is obliged to explain why it failed to do so
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In plainspeak: strutting out T-shirts for photo opps while your org fails to materially address a crisis (whereas people don't) is noticed
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The most effective activists I met in Lesvos are unselfconscious, at least use their image sparingly, focusing on effectiveness. Unlike orgs
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If the org success yardstick hinging on brand awareness worked, we'd see better conditions for refugees where logos fly. This isn't the case
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Again, in plainspeak: a group of people dug drainage at Moria. A group of people cleaned the toilets in Kara Tepe that day orgs took selfies
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