Aid Worker Voices - Paperback

by Tom Arcaro (Author)

In 2014, a sociologist from Elon University and professional humanitarian teamed up to study the aid industry. Through a census-style online survey that was among the first of its kind, over 1,000 aid and development professionals shared their views and opinions on a wide range of topics related to their experiences as the core of the aid industry's workforce. This book is the analysis of those 1,000+ responses. As the title suggests, this represents the voices of humanitarian aid and development workers around the globe - a diverse array of individuals with deep, intense and equally diverse feelings on what it means to be part of today's humanitarian workforce. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the global aid and development industry better.

Author Biography

Tom Arcaro is a sociologist at Elon University and is the founding director of the Periclean Scholars program. His passion for development work began in 1990 with the first of what would be many visits to the Comprehensive Rural Health Project in Jamkhed, India. The seeds for what would eventually become the Periclean Scholars program were planted during that first visit. He lives with his wife and children in Burlington, North Carolina.