11/04/2025
Excerpt from our Newsletter Editorial – April 2025🌺
Cracks in the Wall, Cracks in the World
I’ve just returned from Bangkok, where I was meant to attend Southeast Asia Blockchain Week—an event that was ultimately cancelled due to an earthquake. I stayed with a friend on the 22nd floor of a building I often return to. But this time, something was different.
Deep cracks lined the hallway walls—a stark, visual reminder of how fragile we are as human beings, and how powerful and unforgiving nature can be.
It takes just one event to shift the course of things—to alter lives in ways that feel immediate and irreversible.
We’ve seen it firsthand in the countries where we work:
🌺In the Philippines, where years of infrastructure and investment are wiped away by a single typhoon.
🌺In Ethiopia, where drought and conflict fuel migration across an already-scorched land—pushing more children into displacement, vulnerability, and risk.
🌺In Pakistan, where recurring floods have reversed hard-won progress—contributing once again to a rise in child marriages in villages where it had nearly been eradicated.
And now in Myanmar, where our resilient team continues to support organisations working with those most affected by crisis, displacement, and conflict—often women and children, navigating impossible circumstances in the aftermath of the earthquake with quiet strength.
It often feels like the world is unraveling—slipping backwards.
Leadership across the globe is increasingly shaped by narcissism, bullying, and a dangerous lack of empathy. This isn’t new. But we forget—especially when the headlines fade and daily life resumes.
For me, the world has never felt more vulnerable. And those already on the margins—the most fragile, the most exposed—have never felt more left behind. It’s not easy to hold that sight.
But this reflection is not just about fear.
It’s a call to remember what matters.
To stay awake.
To keep showing up.
To honour the cracks—and find the strength to build again.
Not just walls, but systems that hold people with dignity, compassion, and care.
With hope, 🌺
Dr. Anita Ramsak
ARSIC Social Impact Consulting
