Archive for 'food aid'
During the last few months, I've been working away at my desk job in London, as well as making a couple of monitoring visits to Zambia & Madagascar. As a keen cyclist, I was interested to meet the Zambikes social business in Lusaka, who've been building high quality bikes in Zambia, including a Zambulance and a Zamcart - bicycle-propelled medical transport and a heavy load [...]
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 money was raised: poor publicity, bad organisation, and, of course, the date was wrong. On [...]
24 years ago, Irish singer Bob Geldof co-wrote 'Do they know it's Christmas?' to raise money for those affected by the famine in Ethiopia. The song has been re-released twice since then, each time with a new line-up of artists.
As a teenager in 1984, I bought the record and sang the lyrics with a hairbrush microphone in front of [...]
I assume that if you have internet access (and perhaps own a computer) then you've probably eaten without thinking, as many of us do every day. There's nothing wrong with that.
I'm writing this as we mark World Food Day. Living in Ethiopia - which has over 6 million people relying on emergency food aid - World [...]
