Support Born Free which investigates to stop the bushmeat trade to help African animals, placing rescued apes in sanctuaries. Image by Arti Chauhan. ‘Helping developing countries’ sounds a bit patronising, doesn’t it? Some people in Africa for instance are extremely angry at images portrayed of people with begging bowls, and also of westerners sending all their…
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what we can learn from Quakers
DolceLoca You likely know that Quakers (often described as ‘western Buddhists’) don’t say much, but hold meetings at local Friends Meetings Houses, are mostly vegetarian, pacifist and campaign for environment issues, animal welfare, world peace and prison reform. But is that it? Not at all! In fact, there is a lot in our barmpot consumerist…
do you need a daily newspaper?
Millions of people buy a daily newspaper, but to be truthful, it likely does not do most people much good. Most newspapers are not news (they are just biased printings of gossip, adverts and more adverts, along with results of racing (has welfare issues) and and perhaps the TV schedules, fake horoscopes and a bit…
volunteer to help with a befriending service
Barbara Peirson The Silver Line is a wonderful free telephone service run by charity Age Co, where volunteers provide friendship and conversation 24 hours a day (7 days a week) to anyone over 55 who is feeling isolated or lonely. A wonderful way for nonstop chatterboxes to help their community, many people (especially if they…
how to prevent all kinds of bullying
Bullying is rife these days, both in schools (and even worse online, which we never had to deal with). Then we have workplace bullying, media bullying (Caroline Flack etc) and people even like to watch TV programmes where people bully each other. There’s a general kind of nastiness about all those programs (Big Brother, I’m…