According to the UN children’s agency (Unicef) across the globe, at least one-in-three children under-five are malnourished and not developing properly. Around 200 million children under-five are either undernourished or overweight, while one-in-three globally – and almost two-thirds of children between the fragile ages of six months to two years – are not fed food …
Unicef: “If children eat poorly, they live poorly” Read More »
They are running many projects including; carpentry workshop, fabrication and welding workshop, Bakery, cooking oil refinery and a farm. When the civil war broke out in 2017, they left Lomin and settled in Moyo. While in South Sudan, they run a number of projects to help the people in Lomin improve their livelihood. Not even …
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Julius Kambarage Nyerere was born in March of 1922 in the village of Butiama near Musoma on the shores of Lake Victoria. He was named Kambarage after an ancestral spirit who lived in the rain, and because it was raining very hard on the day of Julius’ birth. He took the name Julius at the …
One day in the long, long ago the hare was walking through the forest. He was a good farmer and was on his way to inspect his mealie lands. In those days he was like all the other creatures of the wilds: he had a long tapering tail, a well-formed nose and a strong, sturdy …
Due to their great biodiversity, tropical coral reefs are often likened to rainforests. They are indeed ecosystems of supreme relevance, In spite of their incalculable value to humanity, they are under threat all over the world. Apart from global warming, the main harm is caused by overfishing and pollution. For 450 million years, corals have …
The world is afire again, the flames heartbreakingly consume shrubs, trees and forests in Australia, Portugal, Brazil, and recently in California and Siberia and elsewhere too. The world community has reacted in protest to the hundreds of fires burning the Amazon rainforest. These are destroying the habitat of thousands of endangered species and the communities …
Reflection: Peace and Climate Justice is Needed to Save the Planet Read More »
For the first time, 17 representatives of the indigenous peoples participate at the Synod for the Pan-Amazon region. They represent 390 ethnic groups, and most of them have been directly involved in the long, in-depth pre-synodal consultation process. Yésica Patiachi Tayori is a bilingual teacher of the indigenous Harakbut people. She lives in the Apostolic …
Synod for the Pan-Amazon region: To meet indigenous leaders Read More »
“There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it. The road climbs seven miles into them, to Carisbrooke; and from there, if there is no mist, you look down on one of the fairest valleys of Africa.” …
Once upon a time it so happened that there was a Hippopotamus and an Elephant living in the same ancient forest, in the same ancient land which had been called home by all manner of bird and beast since a time beyond counting. Although they came from different families, the Hippo and the Elephant were …
That is what is now happening across the world and ever since that brave child Greta Thunberg, 16 years old, went on strike from school one Friday to sit in front of the parliament house in Sweden with her sign board calling for students to strike for the climate. Millions of people have joined her …
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