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Louise Finan is our regional communications officer based in Kenya. Louise will be blogging as she travels through Africa.

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Climate change and Tanzania

Posted by Isla Gilmore on 05 Nov 2009 | 0 comments
Unless you’re a devoted environmentalist it can be confusing keeping up with all the forums, summits and conferences dedicated to the reduction of climate change.

At the Coalface of Climate Change

Posted by Caroline Hickson on 03 Nov 2009 | 0 comments
Recently I was privileged to spend a few days in the company of a remarkable man. I first met Kenny Matampash in Kenya in May. A member of the pastoralist Maasai people, he runs a local NGO – Neighbours Initiative Alliance – that provides support to his fellow Maasai.

Changing attitudes in rural Tanzania

Posted by Isla Gilmore on 29 Oct 2009 | 1 comment
I meet a woman in one of the poorest villages in Tanzania. Her name is Fatuma Ismail. She is the same age as me, 30, and has five children. She is a widow with nobody to turn to for support.

Kenya’s drought: media coverage

Posted by Louise Finan on 27 Oct 2009 | 0 comments
Many parts of Kenya have now been without rain for three years.

Aid workers released

Posted by Naoise Kavanagh on 19 Oct 2009 | 0 comments
Yesterday, GOAL aid workers Sharon Commins and Hilda Kawuki were released, having been kidnapped and held captive for 107 days. Sharon Commins is to return home to Ireland  today. 

Women of Concern launched in Cork

Posted by Gail Williams on 15 Oct 2009 | 0 comments
First Dublin, and now Cork! We recently launched our Women of Concern group in Cork City in the hospitality suite of the Heineken Brewery.
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