poverty alleviation

How to make a sandwich in 5 steps?

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

One of the “fun” things I get to do as a parent of primary schools aged kids is help them with their homework.  Recently we did “Procedures” – you know, a set of steps which, when followed in order, produce the desired outcome. That’s where the sandwich came from; ham and cheese as it happens. [...] 

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A man, a fish farm and hope in West Papua #2 #EIC

Friday, November 11th, 2011

By Rob Floyd – Associate Director, Relief & Development Unit. Rob also blogs here on Development in Real Life. This blog is 2 of 16 on gift ideas from our catalogue and the actual project involved RD03 – Throw out a line: Fishing nets for a fish farmer Over to Rob… Give a man a [...] 

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Celebrities and band-aid solutions

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

t’s easy to purchase any kind of product or wear a brightly coloured wrist band when ‘proceeds go to charity’. It easy to find ourselves moved by graphic images of deprived children and then support an orphanage. I’ve done that too! But then I went to uni and as I started to learn more about the issues and the context around poverty, I began to ask more questions.  

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