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Bringing hope for children in West Africa

Posted by: Anita Tiessen, Posted on: 11 June 2012 - Categories: Africa, Development Debates, Health, Nutrition

Since December last year, UNICEF has been warning of a looming food crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa, where more than one million very young children will suffer from life-threatening malnutrition this year. I've just returned from a visit …

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It's raining again…

Posted by: Carrie, Posted on: 7 February 2011 - Categories: Afghanistan

As I walked to work today, two of my colleagues stopped me to comment on the rain. Not that unusual you’re probably thinking. In London, as I walk to work, the rain is more likely to solicit a quick one-liner …

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The event that flopped

Posted by: Martin Leach, Posted on: 22 October 2009 - Categories: Africa, Humanitarian

Have you ever organised an event that flopped? In 1985 I was working for an international development NGO, and I organised a young people's fund raising event in a park in West London. It failed; few people came and even less …

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