HeyJaredDispatches from Alice in DevelopmentLand
Wry, whimsical dispatches from the frontlines of aid and social change. Alice reports from DevelopmentLand, where good intentions meet polite absurdity.
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- Sep 21, 2026
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- Sep 7, 2026
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Requiem ~ Alive and Unfinished (opens the original)
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Dear ReadersLast we spoke I had come to the end of the tale of my time in DevelopmentLand with my unscheduled return to my home after unintentionally running headlong into a bullet aimed at Mama Njeri. Thankfully my White Rabbit friend, now a fulltime apprentice compostologist with Mzee Joseph, can still visit on occasion and bring me news of what is happening there.This is next dispatch looks back on my time there, an attempt to answer some of the questions I was pursuing in my quest to try to
The Misadventures of Alice in DevelopmentLand... now a book (opens the original)
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Dear Alice in DevelopmentLand subscribersAlice’s Dispatches from the grubby end of international aid and philanthropy has now become a book, with fairly substantial reworking and an added last Dispatch.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1032" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1iyT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimage
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