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2021 became the year of new things. Which may mean more new things lie ahead! How so? There’s a ‘circularity’ to change, which in your head and mine goes something like this: When we tackle new challenges, our brains help to make them ‘normal’ for us by creating new neural pathways. These help us adapt […]
What were you doing, ten years ago? In 2011, what was your life like? The news of that year was dominated by the riots in response to Mark Duggan’s death across the UK; the occupy Wall Street movement began; and across the Middle East, protests erupted in what was known as the ‘Arab Spring’. In […]
All We Can stands together with colleagues across the European Commission on Mission, and the European Methodist Council, in support of the appeal from the United Methodist Church in Poland regarding the crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border. The crisis, which has been unfolding since the start of November, has seen men, women and children travel […]
All We Can’s Director of Public Engagement, Steve Adams, reflects on the team’s experience at COP26 – and explores what this means for our local partners around the world. It was wonderful for its variety, but disappointing for its lack of diversity. Many, many, many people groups most affected by the issues discussed were absent. […]
As COP26 approaches, we hear from Mollie Pugmire – one of the Climate Justice for All team. In this blog, she shares what the team are doing in the run-up to COP26 – and how British Methodists can have their say. Climate Justice for All (CJ4A) is a youth-led Methodist campaign to mobilise the global […]
On the morning of 14 August (local time) a devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. A few days later, Tropical Depression Grace made landfall in Haiti, causing further damage and destruction. Just over one month on, the Haitian Civil Protection have reported that an estimated 2,189 people are known to have died, over 12,200 people […]
Covid-19 has thrown into sharp focus the many injustices which shape our world today. Vaccine inequality, gender injustice and youth unemployment have all risen sharply as a result of the pandemic – and so there has never been a better time for organisations to come together to tackle these challenges. That is why, from 1 […]
A powerful earthquake that struck Haiti’s Southern Peninsula on Saturday morning has claimed more than a thousand lives, with the death toll still climbing. Many more have been injured. All We Can and the Methodist Church in Britain have launched a Joint Appeal, after together assessing the likely response needs. Graeme Hodge, All We Can […]
In April 2021, India was in the grips of the very worst of Covid-19 – and the world watched in horror as devastating statistics dominated the headlines. At the peak of its second wave of the virus, India recorded more than 414,000 new confirmed cases and over 3,900 deaths in a single day. At the […]
Today marks a little known awareness day – World Youth Skills Day. In 2014, the UN General Assembly declared 15 July a celebration of the importance of ‘equipping young people with the skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship.’ As an estimated one in six young people globally are out of work due to the […]