Radar Readings

I’m spending a couple of days at a big development conference in Manchester. It’s called ‘Ten years of war against poverty – what have we learned?’ and it’s heaving – there are about 500 people here.

Many thanks to Madiha Shafi, Program Officer for our Girls Education programme in Pakistan, for sharing this documentary with us.
Millions of children, most of them girls, do not have access to quality education, particularly in developing nations.
This project, “Enhancing Girls Education in Remote Areas,” is funded by Dubai Cares, a non-profit organisation working worldwide to improve access to primary education for children in developing countries. The project is being carried out through Oxfam and its local partner Idara-e-Taleemo Agahi (ITA) in Pakistan.

First the good news: Marks & Spencer told us that it will use a method for paying workers a living wage that was developed by ActionAid and professor Doug Miller, a widely respected garment industry expert from the University of Northumbria.

The World Malaria Day “End Malaria” campaign was announced as a finalist in the OMMA Awards in the Charity/Non-Profit category, under the leadersh