Last Tuesday, 14 grassroots volunteers headed to Parliament with our southern advocate- Walter Nyika- to speak with their MPS about global undernutrition ahead of the ‘Nutrition for Growth’ event on June 8 th . This guest blog post about the day comes from Rob Green, the new group leader of our new RESULTS group in Cardiff.
It was my first time meeting the RESULTS team and my first time attending...
Today's blog comes from RESULTS volunteer Gillian Price; Gill is a long term member of our Stort Valley group. on Wednesday she attended a CAFOD organised lobby of Parliament to speak with MPs ahead of the June 8th Hunger Summit.
Tuberculosis (TB) and Undernutrition are two of our key issues at Results. Both have a devastating impact on the lives of the poor in developing countries, yet both have a worryingly low profile in the aid and development discourse in donor countries. They are also two issues that are closely intertwined.
We are pleased to annouce that the May focus call will take place on the 21st May at 7pm.
Following your fantastic efforts last year to raise the issue of disability and education around the London 2012 Paralympic Games, this months call will be an opportunity to discuss some of the latest updates on our advocacy on education and disability as well as what's coming up this year, including... Calling for DfID to prioritise children with disabilities in their education programmes The...
Yesterday, Jonathan Smith, epidemiologist and director of ‘They Go To Die’, received news that the only surviving miner in the film-Mr Mkoko-has been hospitalised with tuberculosis again.To find out more about Mr Mkoko’s condition and what you can do to help, have a read of this personal message from Jonathan Smith and share with your networks. Our thoughts and messages of support go out to Mr Mkoko and his family during this difficult time.
I have just been talking with my colleague Tom about the content of this blog. We were discussing the tone that so many Live Below the Line blogs take and we felt that they followed something of a formula: a description of the challenge; trepidation at the thought of five days without enough food; first day blues; caffeine withdrawal; mid-week slump; frustration at a lack of food options; end of week morale boost; reflection on the challenge; comments on how the challenge has changed the participants life.
Many discussions about microfinance begin with the same story. It’s the story of a Bangladeshi economics lecturer who had a novel but compelling idea, and how the organisation he created, the Grameen Bank, became one of the world’s foremost socially-oriented financial institutions. As you read this a new chapter is being written in this story, where the Bangladeshi government looks at loopholes in the Grameen’s founding statutes as a way to seize control of its finances. In doing so the...
Malaria and malnutrition are closely related, as malaria usually affect families that are both poor and malnourished. The months of the ‘hunger gap’, when malnutrition is at its peak, often coincides with the rainy season, when mosquitoes breed and the number of malaria cases shoots up. The diseases combine in a vicious circle: malnourished children have weak immune systems, so their bodies are less able to fight diseases such as malaria, while children sick with malaria are more likely to...
Todays guest blog post is brought to you by Endalkachew Demmiss , author of 'The Mystery of God’s will'.
In 2004, I was a bed-ridden multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patient and missed class for more than two years. Before 2008, the medications were not available in Ethiopia. During those days, patients like myself were isolated in small rooms, waiting for their death due to the lack of access to...
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