I didn't see scavengers once help refugees, or even offer them water. But I did see one wade in & rip out the engine before the boat landed.
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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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@asteris that's precisely the point, today's mutual aid arise because of the situation combined by failing institutions & broken democraciesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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