Emdad Rahman Living on the street can be all consuming. Help us erase homelessness… There was plenty of banter among the team and our homeless friends last night at Booth House. One Third Soup Kitchen partnered up with the Human ...
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Avocados are toast in US forest fires
FARMERS IN California were going to spend Christmas planning their avocado harvests early in the new year. Now they will be worrying over how they are going to keep their farms going, as wildfires so massive that they can be ...
Read More »Kaleigh Lau stars at Team Kaleigh 10k Challenge
Emdad Rahman ENCHANTING seven year old Kaleigh Lau was the star of the show at the first ever Team Kaleigh 10k Challenge in Redbridge. The community event, supported by the iconic Sikhs in the City Running Club, was organised to raise ...
Read More »Play For Rohingya raises thousands
Emdad Rahman THE PLAY FOR ROHINGYA tournament held at Newham Leisure Centre to raise money for over half a million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh was a huge success. Sixteen teams fought it out on the pitch to support a hugely important ...
Read More »Helping Ethiopia cope with drought
DROUGHT IS NOT just an absence of water. There are many ways a prolonged drought can set up a chain reaction which can see a community becoming dependent on aid and finding it hard to get its life going again. ...
Read More »Corbyn urges Tories not to take UK to war with Korea
DONALD TRUMP has been spending large parts of August getting mixed up about whether he is playing a macho video game or trying to run a country which is involved in most of the inter-state conflict in the world. It ...
Read More »Human Appeal issues Hajj Checklist
THE CHARITY Human Appeal has produced an “Ultimate Hajj Checklist” to help those making the sacred pilgrimage to Makkah this Dhul Hijjah to ensure that they are well prepared. The Checklist will help pilgrims avoid leaving anything important behind so ...
Read More »Syedpur Shaharpara win Union Cup 2017
Emdad Rahman SYEDPUR SHAHARPARA beat Asharkandi Eagles to win the Jagannathpur UK Union Cup 2017. A tense final against Shahinul Khan’s Asharkandi Eagles saw the game end in stalemate, which was not surprising considering both teams were playing their seventh ...
Read More »Can you help find Hackney robbers?
LAST WEEK SAW five nightime break-ins in homes in Hackney – which look like they were carried out by the same person. Fortunately, no one was physically injured during any of the incidents – but many of the victims have ...
Read More »Seeing out Ramadan with homeless friends
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 ...
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