Spring is Coming

Recently, I’ve found it very easy to get angry about what I see going on around the world, and increasingly in my own country. At the same time, I’ve been finding it difficult to see how I’m channelling that anger into anything truly productive. I’ve been reading the news, signing the petitions, tweeting far more than usual,

The Olympic Stretch

In contrast to what I spoke about in my last blog, some of the work I did towards the end of the trip was more related to raising awareness in the general public than doing grassroots work. A lot of the work we’d been doing had been looking towards the Olympics, so it was great to stay on a bit longer and see how it took shape.

Generation of Hope

The official Tearfund part of our time in Brazil is drawing to a close today, and so much has happened since I last wrote that I’m going to have to write a couple of posts to cover it…

I’ll start with our little trip out of the city into a town called Magé

Welcome to Rio

It’s now been 2 weeks since my last post, and I’m aware that a new one is well overdue…

Broken Dreams and (Red) City Lights

We pulled into a petrol station to park, and then walked down a short dusty track which took us to Hell on Earth – as described by the women and girls who work there.

Chocolate Priorities

“She NEEDS to sort out her priorities…”

I feel this quote, one of my favourites from the Harry Potter series (because of the way only Ron Weasley could say it), could be applicable to something that’s been in the media recently. My friend sent me an article about Christians complaining that the word ‘Easter’ had been removed from the packaging of Cadbury’s Easter eggs.

Countdown to Rio 2016

Without wanting to be clichéd, I’m pretty excited for 2016. It holds three and a half months in France, the accomplishment of my year abroad, the beginning of final year… and also three months in Brazil, which some of you already know about. I’m really excited to finally be able to write a post about this