01/16/2017

A Tool Kit for the Donor Eager to Grasp All the Risks of Donation

Consider this insightful article on the dangers, risks associated with donor programs

SASHA KRAMER, an ecologist, was having success promoting greater sanitation in Haiti when she lost access to her nonprofit’s only composting site in Port-au-Prince: a dump that was being mismanaged.

Her group, SOIL, provides toilets to poor households. Each week, it sent representatives to empty the five-gallon buckets, bring the waste to the dump and turn it into compost, which was sold to farmers as fertilizer.

Nearly nine years into the work, though, the local dump fell into chaos when the private company managing it lost its contract. The government ceased to keep access roads clear and began burning trash to clear it.

Please click here to read the complete article from The New York Times.