Further to my post on “Enough Food for Everyone IF” Campaign:
There was the recent news that the UK will now deliver on the promise made in 1970:
“Back in 1970 rich countries promised to give 0.7% of their national incomes as aid. But until today, the UK never has”.
See my post above for the full update…
Here is the Thank you video:
On Sunday 3rd March I flew across the Atlantic to spend a month working in Falls Church, Virginia. The day before we had enjoyed a pleasant visit to Victoria Park, seeing the burgeoning signs of Spring appearing.
The fine weather continued into Sunday and rarified atmosphere was evident at an altitude of 37,000 feet. The flight wasn’t too crowded, I had a window seat. These are a couple of photos I captured from my seat overlooking the aircraft wing.
This is the 1st post I’ve created using the WordPress app on my Google Nexus tablet and the gesture based keyboard – (which is proving a fairly rapid method of input for touch only).
This is a great video, giving an insight into the thoughts and approaches from some the Wikipedia contributors.
Wikipedia is one of the great internet phenomena and a fantastic example of community collaboration, and volunteerism. It demonstrates our desire as a species to bring sense and order to our world, and to describe and document almost every aspect of our existence in our surroundings and to one another.
My eldest daughter took part in Sign2Sing 2013 this afternoon (Wednesday 6th February 2013).
On Wednesday February 6th 2013
at 2.45pm schools throughout the
UK and in other parts of the world
will sign2sing for SignHealth
and try to break a world record!
Here’s the video of the song with signing animation.
I’ll post an update to see, if the record was achieved.
Tearfund have followed up their campaign around World Food Day (16th October), with supporting the IF Campaign.
This focuses on opportunity of the UK hosting the G8 summit in June of 2013, and therefore the opportunity the UK has to influence the world’s richest nations to bringing an end to world hunger.
Have a look at these videos to learn more.
Find out more about this here:
We’ve Won!
Today Chancellor George Osborne kept his promise to increase the aid budget. Let’s give God thanks that we’ve got here at last.
Back in 1970 rich countries promised to give 0.7% of their national incomes as aid. But until today, the UK never has. So this is a great victory for the Enough Food for Everyone IF campaign, working hard this year to win the battle in hard times and against real opposition.
It’s also a great victory for all of us who’ve prayed and spoken out about this for many years. Thank you for your commitment and your faith.
We know we’ll need to monitor the aid to make sure it’s spent well. And we know aid’s only a first step towards the end of hunger – we want the government and G8 to keep the promise on climate finance and take action on tax, transparency, and land grabs.
We’ll see over the next week what the government does in the Finance Bill to help cut tax dodging in poor countries. There’s a lot more to do.
But today is a day to celebrate and tell your friends. Our voices and our prayers are powerful. We’ve helped hungry people to feed themselves, we’ve helped thirsty people get clean water to drink, we’ve helped people with HIV get care and treatment, we’ve given children an education, we’ve freed women from walking miles to fetch water.
Thank you for all you’ve done to get this promise kept.
Thank you.
The Campaigns Team.P.S. Have you seen the Enough Food IF Thank You video? Please do share it with your friends and family.
I posted this post with a photo taken by NASA showing the country under snow in the Winter of 2010.
Here is another NASA satellite image of UK taken in January 2013.
This snow coverage wasn’t as comprehensive as the Winter of 2010, or as cold. Interestingly location of Manchester is fairly noticeable as a ‘snow’ free spot amongst the snow in the English countryside. Also most of the coasts remained snow free.
This is a great short video from Tearfund, with some thoughtful comments on how to do Christmas differently.
Are you thinking of doing Christmas differently this year?
Are you “weaving in rhythms of justice…”?
