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Aiding & Abetting
Episode 1 - Introducing Aiding & Abetting
Aiding & Abetting is a podcast from Karama exploring the uncomfortable realities, contradictions, and power dynamics behind modern humanitarian aid.
Hosted by Karama founder Tom Colley, the series goes beyond familiar charity narratives to ask deeper questions about who really holds power in the aid system, and whether the current model is fit for purpose.
Through conversations with aid workers, activists, researchers, and local responders, the podcast examines issues including localisation, mutual aid, donor politics, colonial legacies, and the future of humanitarian action.
Produced by Karama, a network supporting locally led mutual aid responses and advocating for more dignified and accountable humanitarian systems. Aiding & Abetting is for anyone who wants an honest insider’s view of how humanitarian aid actually works, and what meaningful alternatives could look like.
You can learn more about Karama’s work at:
www.karama.org.uk
You can also support the wider project through Karama’s crowdfunding campaign:
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2. Episode 2 - Who gets left behind?
44:20||Season 1, Ep. 2In this episode of Aiding & Abetting, we explore one of the humanitarian sector’s most persistent failures: the exclusion of disabled people and older people from humanitarian response.Despite years of commitments to inclusion, many humanitarian programmes remain inaccessible, fragmented, and designed around rigid sector-based systems rather than the realities of people’s lives. From inaccessible aid distributions to the failure to adapt services in meaningful ways, this episode examines why disabled people and older people continue to be left behind during crises.Host and Karama founder Tom Colley is joined by inclusion specialist Diana Tilly, who brings more than 40 years of experience working on disability and inclusion across humanitarian and development contexts.Together, they discuss the limitations of mainstream humanitarian approaches, the overlap between people’s needs, and what genuinely inclusive humanitarian action could look like in practice.Learn more about Karama and its work supporting locally led humanitarian responses at: www.karama.org.uk