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Does Diane Abbott speak for me?

IdaHorner — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:00:40 +0000

Pin It An almighty race row broke out yesterday following a tweet by Diane Abbott MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington. The tweet said “White people love playing divide and rule and we should not play their game”. This was part of an exchange between her and journalist Bim Adewunmi you can follow the [...]

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All they want for Xmas is a Toilet of their own

IdaHorner — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Pin It Having access to a toilet is something that we in the West take for granted as Angela explained on WORLD TOILET DAY. The lack of access to sanitation including a toilet has implications for at least 2.6 Billion folk in the developing world Mark Tran explains in The Guardian, Sanitation related diseases such [...]

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Lets talk about Food #bad11

IdaHorner — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:00:05 +0000

Pin It It is world food day and the theme for BLOG ACTION DAY 2011 is food. Over at Ethnic Supplies blog I have asked the question What are the poor doing to secure their food? It would appear that the odds are stacked against them, they pay more for food, in Africa folk are losing [...]

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Troy Davis- Wots his name?

IdaHorner — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:00:53 +0000

Up until Tuesday20th September 2011 I had never heard of Troy Davis but he had made it into the news bulletin of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. The news headline went along the lines- black man on death row for killing a white man following which they gave the names of both the deceased and [...]

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Australia PM’s attempts to sell refugees to Malaysia thwarted by courts

IdaHorner — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:30:50 +0000

Pin It The Reith Lecture of 2009 was delivered by Professor Sandel and his subject was a NEW FORM OF CITIZENSHIP. Of the 4 lectures, I was especially interested by lecture 3 entitled MARKETS AND MORALS if you have time to listen, here is the link. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kt7sh. In this lecture Prof Sandel asks some interesting [...]

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Confessions of a horse lover: et tu, Hombré

SuzanStMaur — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:00:00 +0000

Pin It “Oh you little *********,” I shouted as the stallion’s jaws snapped shut around my shoulder blade for the umpteenth time that evening – each time, in fact, that I walked past his box pushing a barrow as I mucked the horses out. I tried tiptoeing, I tried crawling along so my head was [...]

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Catching up Princess and Perfect

IdaHorner — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 09:00:42 +0000

Pin It I sometimes can’t quite believe my luck! Once or twice a year I get to visit Princess and Perfect at their school in SW Uganda. At the recent visit June 2011, I got a hug from Princess, Perfect is a little shy. Temperatures are normally very low in this part of Uganda especially [...]

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Let Them Help Themselves Out of Poverty

IdaHorner — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:00:00 +0000

Pin It I took up Nikki’s 30 day blogging challenge . The task I am currently working on requires us to answer questions that people ask us the most about our work. I have mostly undertaken the tasks on my own blog ethnicsupplies.org but I decided to do this task twice both on this blog [...]

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Beat the Panda, educate a village…

Special Guest — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:00:03 +0000

Pin It Beat the Panda, save a village sounds like the stuff superheroes do. A note from the Ed. We all know about web marketing, social media and small businesses. But how do you make it all convert? How does it slot together and what does that have to do with a small village in [...]

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Is the Starbucks boss crying foul or really rooting for coffee farmers?

IdaHorner — Thu, 12 May 2011 09:00:22 +0000

Pin It Today 11th May 2011 the news has been full of one thing that is close to my heart- the true value of what producers in the developing world earn for their hard work. The price of coffee is at its highest in 34 years and whilst this should be good news for the [...]

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