Best of 2008 - Aid agency blogs
Written by: AlertNet

A baby receives treatment for malnutrition at a Medecins Sans Frontieres facility for outpatients in Fajigole, Ethiopia. May 23, 2008.
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Aid worker blogs offer readers the unique perspectives of those providing relief in war zones and disasters. The best of these pieces include personal stories and anecdotes that illuminate the human cost of crises in a way that press releases can't. They highlight the complexities of delivering aid and connect the reader to affected communities. As 2008 draws to a close, we at AlertNet have collected together some of the gems of our aid worker blogs from the past year. We think that these quirky, insightful and informative pieces are some of the best.
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25 March 2008
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By Patrick Duplat (Refugees International)
11 April 2008
19 May 2008 Sri Lanka's forgotten displaced By Amjad Mohamed-Saleem (Muslim Aid)
24 June 2008 Rain and sadness in cyclone-ravaged Myanmar By Chris Northey (CARE International)
10 July 2008 The Baby in Tukul #3 By Lauralee Morris (MSF Canada)
21 July 2008 Georgians feed baby on grass as they flee tanks By Marie Cacace (Oxfam GB)
26 August 2008 A year's worth of mud in Gonaives By Donal Reilly (Catholic Relief Services)
13 October 2008 Aid workers have lost their sanctity in Afghanistan By Jake Phelan
28 October 2008 No Man's Land: Iraqi-Palestinians in Al Tanf Camp By Joel Charny (Refugees International)
18 November 2008
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31 Dec 2008 17:21:04 GMT
Some of the high lighted humanitarian blog of 2008 are best and I had the opportunity of giving my opinion regarding most of these. What is more important is many volunteers who take up this holy job of assisting helpless peoples are killed while helping others. International societies should take up these cases of killings of volunteer workers to an international court of law. Because in countries like Srilanka in the last three years many aids workers are killed by govt forces and its armed groups. A just trial or investigations for these killings are denied by the govt and most aid agencies are ordered out of the war zones and from places badly affected by natural calamities.