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Tea Time for change: the most important cuppa of the year!
On June 9th, 131 MPs sat down over a cup of tea with their constituents in Westminster. The lobbyists were calling for commitments on aid, transparency and the Robin Hood Tax.
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TAGS: 165.Aid, 267.Campaigning news, 175.Climate change and environment, 263.News, 28.Robin Hood Tax
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Tell the UK government: "Don't water down the Bribery Act"
On Monday, Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke signalled that the implementation of the Bribery Act would be put on hold due to lobbying by the business community.
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Taking children, particularly girls, out of school in order to work is one way poor families try to cope with financial hardship. Even if there are no school fees, many struggle to afford the necessary pencils, paper, shoes and clothes
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Market stall quadruples family income
Caritas Bangladesh has been working with women in Sobeda market in the Khulna region of Bangladesh to improve their livelihoods and income generation for over three years.
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Press release: CAFOD warns Government as 1,000 day countdown begins
Catholic aid agency CAFOD will tell the Government and the United Nations on Good Friday that urgent action is required to agree a new global plan to tackle poverty. Good Friday marks exactly 1,000 days until the start of 2015, when the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agreed a decade ago are due to expire.
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TAGS: 177.Millennium Development Goals, 328.Press release
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Cambodia: Help starts from love
Meet Phalla and her family, whose committment to helping children with no family and no home is helping to pioneer the way for others – with the support of CAFOD partner Maryknoll
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Haiti: new homes that will withstand disasters
Like millions of others, Celina Traesil lost everything in the earthquake that devastated Haiti two years ago. Today, thanks to you, she’s about to move into her new home.
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Sareth is deputy village chief in a Cambodian community where the empowerment of women ensures its development stays in the hands of the local people
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Kenya: Drought hits Cattle Mountains
“Food aid has ensured our survival," says Le Patina Lentokoko. "But the food is limited... The drought will continue, but if there is no rain by September, people will die.”
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Learning lessons about HIV and health
The Mutomo clinic tackles HIV in Kenya, but the struggle for food and basic healthcare affects patients' ability to take life-saving drugs, as Paul Kwaluma discovered
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