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Capturing Stories at the Starfish Community EXPO
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If you have some story of a collaboration or networking that you would like to share with the community, please contact me. If you are at the EXPO, we'll have one plan. If you are unable to make the EXPO, please contact me anyway.
Thanks!
Matt Wallace
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2010 Starfish Community Expo
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Posted 4 months, 1 week ago, updated 1 week ago
Please put the 2010 Starfish Community Expo on your calendar! The event will be:
September 16-18, 2010
Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
Many of you were at the first Expo in October 2009, and I think it was a really productive time of sharing good ideas and making key connections ...
Focused Networking
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Yazi was one of the participants at the 2009 Starfish Community Expo who traveled a significant distance to be a part of the Expo. In this clip, he talks about how inspiring it is to connect with others who are doing the same kind of community development.
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The Cost of Short Term Missions
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This is a very interesting article called The Cost of Short Term Missions. Although it was written a little over 10 years ago, the main idea presented still holds true. I truly believe that a simple understanding of this message will be
Camille Melki on Holistic Development
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Camille Melki of Heart for Lebanon talks about how partnering can increase the effectiveness of several separate projects.
As our friend Brian likes to say, partnering is messy. You have to give up a little bit of control, and you have to maintain a relationship, but it can also be
Drinking water
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Hi all,
Is there any working model for desalinating brackish water into clean drinking water? The communities in many parts of Sidoarjo, Indonesia have water wells that are not fit for consumption. They have to purchase drinking water from other sources. Any disaster outbreak will diminish their survival
Stories from Haiti
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Here is Junior Bataille talking about where he was when the earthquake first hit, and what it means for his country. Junior has been a key relationship for a lot of the Starfish Community teams that went to Haiti.
Junior definitely has a vision for rebuilding his country. I'd
Haiti Update from Hope Extended
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Posted 5 months, 1 week ago, updated 5 months, 1 week ago
John Seaman offers an update and some comments about their recent work in Haiti. I hope this will provide others with a little more insight into what's been going on and some "Lessons Learned" for future reference.
Thanks to John and Hope Extended for their work with the IDRN ...
Connections in Haiti
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In this interview, Wayne Graham talks about his interest in Haiti, one that began on a very personal level. Wayne was instrumental in connecting HISG, IMR, and HELP International with a very capable partner in Port Au Prince who helped make a lot of our efforts a reality.
Wayne talks
US Haiti Ambassador Report: One Month Later
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Below is a video link that is not particularly compelling video, and it's obviously US Government-centric. However, the "one month later" assessments continue and this might be of interest to some as it's not processed through the standard "big media" outlets.
I challenge the Starfish Community people involved ...
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