All posts tagged poverty

Community builders and equations

Despite Melbourne being decidedly cooler than last weekend, fires still burn. The wider region has begun to respond, with Singapore promising the use of helicopters stationed in Queensland, a woman in Paris doing the legwork to track down a missing person in Melbourne and people in Uganda praying for the state of Victoria. (*Yes that [...]

Blog Action Day – Intentions

Apparently I have to credit Geoff for this idea… because it is his, but as I am married to the man – I technically still own at least some of the IP (What?) so I’m going to write about it anyway. My attitude to Blog Action Day is somewhat like my attitude toward poverty. In [...]

Poverty – the girl effect

Another video for you to watch today. It think I’ll let it speak for itself. The Girl Effect Website also, it is quite beautiful typographically (which is entirely not the point, but still interesting)

Engineers without Borders

My response to an interview in Dumbo Feather on Design Hub (A uni thing that could be written as a blog comment and I did it pretty quickly): Does Engineers without Borders Give a Damn? I was blown away by the impact of Engineers without Borders. I’ve heard a little about them through a friend [...]