Philip Gibbs

It is better to give then to lend, and it costs about the same.

It's better to give than to lend and it costs about the same.

We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.