Give and Take: Refugee-Camp Simulation

Opinions are divided about an effort to get participants at this year’s World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, to empathize with impoverished refugees by offering them an opportunity to experience, if only for an hour or so, what it feels like to live in a refugee camp, cross a minefield, and face an attack by violent rebels, reports Give & Take, The Chronicle’s roundup of the best blog posts about the nonprofit world.

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