“Sometimes it feels like you’re being swallowed up, pulled under by a rip tide. The enormity of need. The limits of what we can do. Boyd said it was hard to show up at someone’s home, ask if he could help, and realize that, sometimes, he couldn’t. I remember him—walking across a dirt path to the garden where he grows vegetables for the orphans; Gordon striding across a school yard to see a new water pump; Joy walking down the hall to meet some government officials. They put one foot in front of the other.”
— DEVELOPMENT AID AND ITS CRITICISMS
About Lindsay
Lindsay Morgan is a writer, editor and analyst who has worked primarily in the field of international development. Lindsay was born in San Diego, California, studied history as an undergraduate, and politics at the University of Durham in the UK as a graduate student.
Lindsay has authored numerous reports about aid programs and conducted field research in many countries, including Burundi, Indonesia, Kenya, Uganda, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, and Tanzania. She was based for many years in Washington, DC, where she worked for the Center for Global Development, a think tank, and an international development consultancy. She also resided in Dar es Salaam, where she wrote stories about World Bank health programs across sub-Saharan Africa.