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The Guardian Media group in the UK has launched a three-year development project with Amref, to improve the lives of the 25,000 inhabitants of Katine, a village district in Uganda. Katine is one of the poorest villages in the deprived district of Soroti in north-eastern Uganda. The poverty that exists is beyond the control of the hard-working resilient, warm and friendly people who live there. AMREF is partnering with the Guardian, Observer newspaper, Panos Eastern Africa, Barclays and 25,000 people living in Katine sub-county to help improve their lives.
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A new online collection of oral testimonies gathered from communities in Zambia and Pakistan powerfully convey, in their own words, the reality of poverty and its daily oppressions. Published for International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (October 17), the testimonies,
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Efforts to reduce poverty in low-income countries will not succeed unless all policy actors pay more attention to the mass media, says international development agency Panos London. In its latest report, Making poverty the story: time to involve the media in poverty reduction.
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The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) and the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) have launched the second edition of the WASH Media Awards. The 2007/2008 edition solicits print, electronic and broadcast media submissions on water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
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A new online collection of oral testimonies gathered from communities in Zambia and Pakistan powerfully convey, in their own words, the reality of poverty and its daily oppressions. Published for International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (October 17), the testimonies,
ww.panos.org.uk/livingwithpoverty, show that poverty has different faces in the two countries – in Zambia, for example, food insecurity and the human and economic costs of HIV and AIDS preoccupy the narrators. In Pakistan, the narrators living in squatter settlements face continual insecurity and describe the various survival strategies they employ to meet their basic needs. Nevertheless, a number of underlying concerns are common to the different communities, such as the frustration of battling against entrenched power structures, and indifference and corruption among those meant to be representing their interests. Whoever comes here make tall promises, but nobody ever helped us. We just hope that after listening to our conversation through you, the government might help us - may pay heed to our voice. – Fatima, Pakistan Lack of voice is just one way that poverty reinforces poverty, as these stories vividly illustrate. Fishing families around Manchar Lake in Pakistan, for example – whose livelihoods have been devastated by man-made pollution of the lake – find themselves locked into debt as a means of survival. Local traders buy their catch, often for less than market value; the same traders lend them money at high interest rates. Panos London’s head of oral testimony, Siobhan Warrington, says, “The value of these testimonies is that they are driven by what the narrators want to talk about. As a result they highlight not only the daily hardships of poverty but tell us what people actually living in poverty think needs to be done. These are the real voices that policy-makers should be listening to.” The testimonies, and photographs can be freely reproduced but please credit Panos London and send an email letting us know to
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These collections were gathered in collaboration with, Panos Pakistan, Shirkat Gah, Panos Southern Africa and the Choma Youth Development Organisation |
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