Emdad Rahman “Helping one person might not change the world but it could change the world for one person.” HALF OF homeless people are afflicted with diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer or arthritis but do not receive any treatment. It’s a ...

Emdad Rahman SCINTILLA CC cricket star Ashraful Islam’s extraordinary achievements were celebrated at the Groundswell Homeless ceremony as the gifted opening batsman graduated as a Health Peer Advocate.  Islam and his fellow graduates have completed two months of training and ...

Emdad Rahman THE THINGS WE take for granted someone else is paying for.  We had a new team at Stratford City with my mate Mosh and nieces Mariah and Zahra and Nadia all clubbing together to support homeless friends. Nadia ...

Emdad Rahman A GRANT HAS BEEN awarded to a charity to expand services in London to support homeless people. The City Bridge Trust, the City of London Corporation’s charitable funded has bestowed £37,100 to Vision Care for Homeless People, a charity ...

Emdad Rahman We focus so much on the “homeless” part we forget the “people” bit… # TheWanderingLondoner TONIGHT AT THE soup kitchen we had a mixture of the kids and new volunteers stepping in, including Dr Mohammad Hassan from Queens Hospital, Romford, who ...

Emdad Rahman AN EAST END charity is appealing for help to support some of London’s most needy citizens. The Whitechapel based Human Relief Foundation (HRF) is calling on local residents to make generous donations of food as well as other essentials. These will ...

Emdad Rahman Addiction – stress – domestic violence – mental health – broken relationships – grief – unemployment – despair. These are all very real catalysts for homelessness. It’s easy to forget that the homeless are people, people who have ...

Emdad Rahman Kind hearted staff from Langdon Park School in Poplar joined youngsters from the local SPLASH Life Skills Project to feed homeless citizens who are staying at the local St Matthias Church and community centre. The meals were provided ...

Emdad Rahman This week we had a special guest as Tom Parmenter from Sky News joined us at the soup kitchen at Stratford City. Apparently Owen Smith thinks he could eradicate homelessness within five years if he was to come ...

Emdad Rahman “A third of homeless people have been refused work because of their living condition” – Shelter Tonight at Booth House I was joined by youth from the Splash Life Skills Project – better known as Amzy’s Angels. They ...