One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot

It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have new products. Meanwhile, you have issues like clean water, literacy for girls, female empowerment. People flinch at the idea of marketing these because marketing sounds like something only companies do.

It's important not to demonize [Donald's] Trump voters.

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition

Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.