http://missthunderstood.com The many and various Nicole Pasulka Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:56:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is inspired by a conversation I had a few days ago with my friend Daniel Zier about things to consider before actually going to Haiti. He brought up relevant concerns about danger. Daniel and many others are concerned that Haiti is a dangerous place to be right now. The question ... http://missthunderstood.com/2010/01/18/is-haiti-dangerous-for-aid-workers/ Thinking more about Haiti, when and if to go and with whom. I’ve been having a lot of conversations with folks and, like everyone else, am reading a whole bunch of shit on the Internet. Issues emerging seem to be finding a good organization to support either with money now ... http://missthunderstood.com/2010/01/18/investing-in-kinder-smarter-aid-organizations/ Maybe should have titled the post, "When to Go to Haiti" because though it sounds like workers are still struggling to find survivors and treat victims, aid organizations emphatically do not want me rushing in on the next boat from the DR. According to the comments in this Mercy Corp blog ... http://missthunderstood.com/2010/01/14/how-to-go-to-haiti/ I didn’t think long and hard and weigh a lot of factors before deciding that since I was interested in volunteering I should probably go to New Orleans. I think I made the right choice, but I was going on instinct. There's a vague sense across the country that the ... http://missthunderstood.com/2010/01/14/why-new-orleans/ I offer these statistics as a sort of framework and also because I've found it tricky to find reliable numbers on housing and homelessness in post-K NOLA. Most of the data comes from articles in the Times-Picayune and the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center. The GNOCDC aggregates findings of ... http://missthunderstood.com/2010/01/13/housing-and-homelessness-in-new-orleans/ Say you’re a recovering alcoholic who, after being a defendant in over 40 misdemeanor cases in the past 16 years, is in AA, holding a steady job and wants to give back to the community. You could mentor at-risk youth, help former inmates find employment, fundraise for a drug and ... http://missthunderstood.com/2010/01/04/guilty-of-orderly-conduct/ During my first week in New Orleans I met a woman named Maria Cicci while volunteering with Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans East. Maria ended up staying at my apartment for a week while she was in the city and when we weren’t working together in the Upper Ninth ... http://missthunderstood.com/2009/10/16/116/ One night last summer on the F Train to Manhattan, an attractive, gray-haired woman across from me was explaining to a friend why at 40 she’d quit her job as a lawyer to join the Peace Corp. “I just wanted to help people,” the woman said without irony or silliness. ... http://missthunderstood.com/2009/08/20/why-volunteer/