The World from PRX

Tracking Charity

Amy Costello is a former Africa correspondent for PRI’s The World. She also hosts Tiny Spark, a podcast that investigates the business of doing good.
K. Subramania is one of Essmart’s first dealers in rural India. He bought a solar-powered light from Essmart, and since then he's sold at least 300 of them to his customers.
Development
A start-up in India treats the poor as discerning customers, not aid recipients
Nigerian pupils work on OLPC computers in Abuja, Nigeria, in May, 2007.
Development & Education
Let’s talk: How can technology change the lives of people in poverty?
Eduardo Tamaniz Diego
Development & Education
Impoverished kids love the soccer ball that powers a lamp — until it breaks
Development & Education
Are volunteer programs empowering — or exploitative?
Volunteer Health Worker
Health & Medicine
Thousands of health workers in Senegal receive no pay. Is that fair?
Relief supplies for Haiyan victims
Environment
Read these 3 tips before you offer help to the victims of Typhoon Haiyan
Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS Shoes.
Development & Education
TOMS Shoes rethinks its ‘buy one, give one’ model of helping the needy
Jennifer Hemsley, adoptive mother.
Development & Education
International Adoption: When Altruism Becomes Industry
Development & Education
What to Consider When You Are Considering Donating
Development & Education
Discussion: How Do You Know a Good Charity When You See It?
Dorothy Kalema holds up her bed net with large holes.
Health & Medicine
Bed Nets for Malaria: Losing the Arms Race?
Health & Medicine
Reporting on Malaria: An Ethical Choice, and Photographs Untaken
Development & Education
A Global Investigation into “Doing Good”
A boy waits for medical attention in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after 2010 earthquake.
Health & Medicine
Haiti Medical Volunteers: Learning from Mistakes
Development & Education
TOMS Shoes: Does Buy-One-Give-One Work?