by Emily Umbers | Dec 19, 2023 | General
‘Unknown’ by Akuch Kuol Anyieth Both Emily Umbers, AIDN’s Marketing & Operations Manager, and Anna Demant, AIDN Advisory Committee Member, recommend ‘Unknown’ by Akuch Kuol Anyieth – a compelling story about a young girl’s escape,...
by Hannah McNicol | Dec 3, 2023 | General
Earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria, Morocco and Afghanistan, floods in Libya, global conflict and humanitarian crises at a scale that defies words. For many, 2023 has left us feeling helpless, wondering what we can realistically do amidst unimaginable devastation and...
by Hannah McNicol | Dec 3, 2023 | General
Just last week I listened with interest as a group of young Cambodian women garment factory workers, living in an urban slum, explained how they were learning to use mobile phone banking to receive their wages and manage their money. For these women, mobile banking...
by Hannah McNicol | Dec 3, 2023 | General
Indonesia’s archipelago provinces are particularly vulnerable to earthquakes. These earthquakes are not only a threat to the lives of the communities in the region, disastrous for basic infrastructure and social services but can also have a devastating impact on...
by aidn_admin | Oct 26, 2023 | General
One in every six people on the planet lives with a disability. Eighty percent of people with disabilities live in developing countries, so that means at least 700 million are our neighbours here in the Indo-Pacific region. People with disabilities are among the...
by aidn_admin | Oct 26, 2023 | General
Over the last few months, two sobering statistics should have caught the attention of all working in the impact investing and international development sector. There is a US$4.2 trillion per year financing gap to achieve the SDGs in emerging markets There is a...
