For the last eight years Kristina Cavit has worked with children from marginalised communities, who often face the effects of poverty, including trauma and abuse. After volunteering with Latin American not-for-profit Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH) following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, helping youth who had been orphaned and abandoned, she returned to Auckland, New Zealand and set up a local NPH office to facilitate fundraising in support of the umbrella group. Continue →
Cecilia Kinnear: Dar be or not dar be? Turkey asks the question
“There will be a military coup,” said my partner over six months ago. He was so right, he was so wrong. What is happening right now in Istanbul, this Sunday morning? The streets around me are calm; the odd helicopter overhead, the birds singing, the horns of passing tankers on the Bosphorus, men drinking coffee in the street below my window. All the clichés of a city still perceived as ‘oriental’ continue. But these things are just normal life to me – except the call to prayer, which sounds different now. Continue →
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