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Hi, my name is Kimber Vradenburg, and I've been a humanitarian practitioner for over 20 years. I love this work, because it continually asks me to reflect, grow, give the best of myself and live in my integrity. Specifically, I love working with practitioners in the field serving their own communities. They are the people upon whom every humanitarian effort depends. They are also systemically undervalued. Over two decades I’ve worked with these incredible practitioners, meeting as people wit ...
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In this episode, we travel to North Sudan & South Sudan and to a centre for abandoned children... My work here with staff delved into long-held, unexplored beliefs that were impacting their work until such time as we created safe space to explore them. While it's possible to live incongruently, in the space between our beliefs, values and actions, …
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In this episode, I bring in narratives from Pakistan and Canada - within my family, even - to underline the complexities of helping from a number of perspectives. I take things down to the human level and connect the dots to wider humanitarian interventions and the skills needed to do this complex work well. Let us know if you're enjoying at www.ki…
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In this episode we head back in time to Sierra Leone to share some of the joys and complexities of working with local practitioners helping themselves and their communities travel the path from 12 years of civil conflict to peace and reconciliation. That path is at times as curved and sometimes seemingly impassable as the roads we travelled to reac…
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Local Issues, Local Solutions, Says Julius Kwami Tsatsu
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In this episode, we wrap up our 3 part series with Julius Kwami Tsatsu of Ghana. Julius shares his ingenuity in response to the lack of rain and his growing skill set; underlining yet another way he responds to local issues with local solutions. We discuss his new awareness about long-held beliefs and their impact on his work with communities as we…
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The Veneer of Beliefs & The Prevalence of Resilience
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In this episode, we explore the veneer of beliefs and the prevalence of resilience by looking back through the contexts we’ve discussed so far, from Ghana to Ethiopia, and bringing in a narrative from Rwanda to underline some of the key themes. This is the 5th episode, which I cheekily equate with the tricky 3rd album in music-industry-metaphor... …
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Beliefs, Values and Ethics, Oh My! Julius Kwami Tsatsu - Chapter 2
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In this Episode, we are again in Ghana with Julius Kwami Tsatsu as our guest. This is Chapter 2 of our juicy dialogue, where we delve into beliefs, values and ethics and the contradictions therein. I share parts of my own journey to discovering and utilizing beliefs and values in my cross-cultural humanitarian work, and Julius shares examples of ho…
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So Many Hats, Julius Kwami Tsatsu! - Chapter 1
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Well hello hello and welcome to Episode 3 of the EoA podcast. Or as they say in Ghana, mema wo akwaaba, which means, I welcome you! My name is Kimber and I am your host. You guessed it, today we are in beautiful Ghana, West Africa, and I have the great pleasure of introducing you to Julius Kwami Tsatsu. In this chapter, we’ll be laying the groundwo…
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In this episode... Why sharing human process-work is important, the role of social location in humanitarian practice and how 28 pastoralists-turned-health-workers made a difference to mothers and their babies in Southern Ethiopia... I would love to hear from you! If you have a comment, or a question, or a story to share, or you'd like to be a guest…
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Well, it couldn't get more perfectly imperfect than this! In this inaugural episode I reveal myself as the newbie podcaster I am, and, share the first sliver of perspective on my experiences doing humanitarian aid work in the field. We start in Malawi, finish in Ghana and along the way I honour the beautiful messiness created by the labyrinth of hu…
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Ethos of Aid is the podcast where we explore the beautiful, messy, human and social nature of humanitarian work in the field. A space for dialogue and learning about how best to do this work together. Find me at www.kimbervradenburg.com or on the Ethos of Aid Facebook page, or @kimbervradenburg on Instagram.…
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