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The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions — And Broken Toilets

Peter DiCampo

March 19, 2018 |

Bright Magazine |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Kenya

In order to create a larger role for aid recipients in conversations about how success and failure are defined for international aid, the What Went Wrong project was founded. People use mobile phones to contact the journalists about a failed aid project, and the journalists gather information about the project, publish reports on social media, and share their findings with the people who originally reported.

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