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16/05/2013
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
IF – Religious lobby of parliament 15 May 2013
This event was billed in development circles as ‘The 500 nuns lobby’. On the 15th May, 250 religious, priests...
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15/05/2013
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.
Credit: UNITAID
It has long been known that there is an association between TB and...
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15/05/2013
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...
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13/05/2013
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...
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09/05/2013
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...
