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All We Can has worked with local organisations in Cameroon for 15 years. Now, as its local partners in the country graduate, All We Can’s Programmes and Partnerships Officer reflects on the impact that working together in partnership has had. ‘All We Can is exceptional in their approach and way they work with partners; in […]
Continue readingThe definition of ‘freedom’ is ‘the power or right to act, speak or think as one wants’; in other words, freedom of choice, freedom of speech, or freedom of movement. Relatively speaking, most of us in the UK are fortunate to have access to freedom, and more often than not, take it for granted. It […]
Continue reading‘Every person’s potential fulfilled.’ Today, we celebrate World Children’s Day. This day has deep significance as it marks when the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989). The rights of children matter. It is an easy statement to agree […]
Continue readingDisaster Risk Reduction – the ways in which we can work with local communities to identify and reduce vulnerability, and find solutions that prevent or mitigate the negative impact of both natural and man-made hazards on human life and assets – is a fundamental component of Sustainable Development. A ‘natural disaster’ is not a natural […]
Continue readingToday, on World Teachers’ Day, we celebrate and thank teachers around the world – be they in classrooms, communities or churches. The teachers in my life are some of the most precious people to me, because they helped challenge me to become who I am today. Their words still echo down the years motivating me […]
Continue reading‘Angela, join in and work alongside your aunt! One finger can’t kill lice!’ I can still remember my grandmother, Gogo Lisnet telling me in my mother tongue. I had been watching my aunt Ines (she wasn’t that much older than me) struggle to winnow maize for the mill. My grandmother seemed to have an adage […]
Continue readingIn the first of a series of blogs on All We Can’s values, Chief Executive Graeme Hodge talks about love songs and life-changing work. If given the category of love songs and power ballads, most of us on a Zoom quiz would probably do fairly well at naming at least a few songs and their lyrics. […]
Continue readingHandwashing, social distancing and regular updates have become a part of our everyday lives here in the UK. At the time of writing, Zimbabwe has 885 confirmed cases and 9 deaths from coronavirus. While these numbers seem low, the things we take for granted in our attempts to reduce the spread of coronavirus in the […]
Continue readingIf you’d asked me as I sipped hot chocolate with my family at Christmas, how I would be spending the majority of 2020, living in lockdown during a global pandemic would’ve been the last thing on my mind. As some parts of the world begin trying to recover from the feeling of having the rug […]
Continue readingSince its origins over 80 years ago, helping young Jewish boys forced to flee annexed Austria during the 1930s, All We Can has been committed to supporting refugees. For the past few years, All We Can has been working in both Syrian Refugee Camps in Jordan and the Rohingya Refugee Camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. […]
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