Party Political Broadcast for East Africa Appeal

05 Oct 2011 at 16:18

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Tonight there is a Conservative broadcast pushing the ongoing East Africa Appeal.  The Tories have ditched there political broadcast in favour of charity appeal.

The Prime Minister and ministers will use allocated airtime to appeal for donations to charities working for East African famine relief.

Oxfam’s Humanitarian Director Jane Cocking said:

“This is a timely reminder that the crisis in East Africa is continuing to push people beyond their ability to cope. With months to go before the next harvest, and increasing conflict, we are still seeing thousands of people flee their homes in search of aid.

“The world’s largest refugee camp in the world, Dadaab, will soon reach 500,000, close to the size of the city of Manchester — as the Conservatives gather there, people continue to flee the famine in Somalia for Dadaab every day. They arrive hungry, weak and in need of emergency aid.

“Oxfam has so far raised more than £7 million for the people of Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia and reached more than 2 million people with aid. But our response is still significantly underfunded and the crisis is only getting worse in parts of the region. People will need help for years to come in order to recover from the worst emergency in the world today.”

 

Three Filthy Cities – New York | London | Paris

21 Apr 2011 at 07:03

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“I absolutely loved filthy cities! Informative and accurate with great cgis!”

Dan Snow must have been relieved to reach the end of the recent BBC TV series: filthy cities, which has seen him faced with more unspeakable cocktails of undiluted nastiness over three programmes than most historians would care to experience in a lifetime.

In the final episode he waded through the squalor of New York as it would have been at the height of the Industrial Revolution, when thousands of migrants arrived every day from Europe. There were mountains of filth in the streets and the immigrants were crammed together in tenement slums infested with cockroaches. And yet the building of the Croton Aqueduct, the development of sewage plants and the discovery of electricity meant that New York became a gleaming monument to modernity in less than a century.

To celebrate the conclusion of the short series of Filthy Cities the BBC have produced a short compilation of Dirty Words and Filthy Phrases which I’d like to share…

Throughout the series historian Dan Snow took the travelogue in a whole new direction – with extraordinary, hands-on demos and state of the art CGI – he delved deep into the murky past in gruesome detail during defining periods in history.

More like this please!

Scrap for Charity – Give A Car

14 Mar 2011 at 19:40

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Give a car for charity

Guest post from Daniel who works for the innovative organisation that donates  proceeds of scrap cars to charity writes:

Cancel out your climate debt with Giveacar

Do you ever feel guilty, being a car owner? Are you one of those car owners who rarely drives, whose vehicle spends far more time sitting on a driveway than with the engine running? Especially with the recent stratospheric rises in petrol and car insurance, coupled with improving public transport infrastructure in urban areas; owning a car seems to be interpretable in one of two ways.

Either owning a car is irresponsible for the environment, especially in situations where perhaps it’s more logical not to own a car; or car owners are unfairly maligned, all tarred with the same brush, all portrayed as people who just don’t care about the state of the world.

Since January 2010, Giveacar has raised over £250,000 for a collective group of over 300 charities.

I don’t think either statement is true, for the record, but both of them have their points. There are some living situations where the price of public transport (even notwithstanding the steep rise in train fares in the UK) falls far below what it would cost to run and maintain a car. However, owning a car doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re environmentally and socially irresponsible. There are ways of driving which can help; such as, for example, changing gears when between 1500 and 2500 RPM can save up to 15% on your fuel.

Have you ever thought about donating your car?

However, there is another way to regain your balance with the environment. Have you ever thought about donating your car?

Modelled on similar US ideas such as CharityCar.us, Giveacar is an innovative social enterprise that facilitates scrap car donation. One simple phone call is required; and Giveacar will arrange collection of your vehicle at no cost to you. Depending on the age and condition, it will either be sold to a car salvage auction or scrapped. The proceeds will be donated to a charity of your choice after the subtraction of a small administration fee.

Since January 2010, Giveacar has raised over £250,000 for a collective group of over 300 charities.

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