A selection of photos from the Leicester Caribbean Carnival which took place on August 4, 2012:
The drums and percussion accompanying the photos are from Sambando's performance at the carnival.
A playlist with more videos from the event -- including an interview with Dennis 'Sugar' Christopher, chair of the committee that organised the carnival -- is available here.
Friday, 10 August 2012
Wednesday, 28 December 2011
[Transcript] Leicester - Red Cross Refugee Service
Piotr Kuhiwczak is Project Worker with the British Red Cross' Refugee Services in Leicester.
In an interview with CivicLeicester, Kuhiwczak talked about how the Red Cross Refugee Service operates in Leicester. The interview took place on 16 December 2011, at an event organised by the Zimbabwe Association and the Zimbabwe Action in Solidarity (ZAS) Leicester Drop-in:
Piotr Kuhiwczak: My name is Piotr Kuhiwczak. I work for the Refugee Services of the Red Cross in Leicester, which is quite a big service compared to other services of a similar kind in the UK. And the reason for that is that Leicester is a dispersal city: that is, the Home Office sends asylum seekers to Leicester, puts them in accommodation, and they [asylum seekers] come up with all kinds of needs, which we help them to find answers to. So, the range of work we do is very wide - from helping people to get legal support, solicitors; helping with appeals when asylum seekers lose support, NASS support; to medical help; schools... it's the whole range of needs which everybody has got and all these problems, especially for people who come from overseas and they don't know how to operate within the system.
We also have got a large programme to alleviate destitution because a lot of asylum seekers, in between appeals, they end up either homeless or destitute. They have no food. So we have got a large programme of food distribution that is helping, supporting basic needs.
The service has been going for, I think the 10th year now and we don't see the needs decreasing. I would say the needs are increasing.
So, that's what we do.
Civic Leicester Community Network: And where in Leicester are you based?
PK: We are in Oadby, which is on the southern end of Leicester, down A6, London Road. Bus 31A can take anybody just nearly to our doorstep.
And we moved there because we had very small premises in the city centre. Now the building is large. We have got a large food store and we can do more things than we used to do.
CLCN: And if I want to find out more about the work you are doing, how do I go about it? How do I get in touch with you?
PK: You can come to us. You can call us on [0116]2710359. Make an appointment. Come and we shall explain to you in detail what we do. We shall give you examples of our work; show you our premises; introduce you to our volunteers, so you will be able to see the whole range of work we do.
CLCN: Thank you very much, Piotr.
PK: OK. Thank you.
In an interview with CivicLeicester, Kuhiwczak talked about how the Red Cross Refugee Service operates in Leicester. The interview took place on 16 December 2011, at an event organised by the Zimbabwe Association and the Zimbabwe Action in Solidarity (ZAS) Leicester Drop-in:
Piotr Kuhiwczak: My name is Piotr Kuhiwczak. I work for the Refugee Services of the Red Cross in Leicester, which is quite a big service compared to other services of a similar kind in the UK. And the reason for that is that Leicester is a dispersal city: that is, the Home Office sends asylum seekers to Leicester, puts them in accommodation, and they [asylum seekers] come up with all kinds of needs, which we help them to find answers to. So, the range of work we do is very wide - from helping people to get legal support, solicitors; helping with appeals when asylum seekers lose support, NASS support; to medical help; schools... it's the whole range of needs which everybody has got and all these problems, especially for people who come from overseas and they don't know how to operate within the system.
We also have got a large programme to alleviate destitution because a lot of asylum seekers, in between appeals, they end up either homeless or destitute. They have no food. So we have got a large programme of food distribution that is helping, supporting basic needs.
The service has been going for, I think the 10th year now and we don't see the needs decreasing. I would say the needs are increasing.
So, that's what we do.
Civic Leicester Community Network: And where in Leicester are you based?
PK: We are in Oadby, which is on the southern end of Leicester, down A6, London Road. Bus 31A can take anybody just nearly to our doorstep.
And we moved there because we had very small premises in the city centre. Now the building is large. We have got a large food store and we can do more things than we used to do.
CLCN: And if I want to find out more about the work you are doing, how do I go about it? How do I get in touch with you?
PK: You can come to us. You can call us on [0116]2710359. Make an appointment. Come and we shall explain to you in detail what we do. We shall give you examples of our work; show you our premises; introduce you to our volunteers, so you will be able to see the whole range of work we do.
CLCN: Thank you very much, Piotr.
PK: OK. Thank you.
Saturday, 26 November 2011
Libya: a non-mainstream media perspective
Dave Roberts, from the non-governmental organisation, Global Civilians for Peace in Libya, presented a non-mainstream media perspective of the conflict in Libya to Amnesty International's De Montfort University (DMU) branch on November 23, 2011 in the DMU's Hugh Aston Building.
Saturday, 20 December 2008
Monday, 15 September 2008
DW TV report on child labour
Today I watched a report on Deutsche Welle TV on child labour.
DW TV had billed it as a report on child slavery, but after watching it, I got the impression that the report was more about child labour than it was about child slavery.
Two DW TV reporters, Rebecca Gudisch and Tilo Gummel travelled to India posing as potential buyers and took video recordings which showed how some children are being taken from their families and are being made to work very long hours in stone quarries, with very little protective gear and for very little or no money at all. The report also shows how some families are working in the mines with their children.
None of the children who are featured in the report appear to be going to school or to have access to medical care.
On returning to Germany, the reporters confronted German wholesalers and companies that use paving stones imported from India. The reporters showed that children were involved in quarrying and processing the stones -- and most companies responded by cancelling the contracts they had with the Indian wholesalers and mines that supplied them.
Job done.
Excerpt the poverty -- which makes it possible for families to encourage their children to work very long hours for very little money -- remains. Also, I suspect that as the mines lose German contracts and revenue, this poverty will worsen for those families that work on the mines and who rely on the income that the mines provide.
DW TV had billed it as a report on child slavery, but after watching it, I got the impression that the report was more about child labour than it was about child slavery.
Two DW TV reporters, Rebecca Gudisch and Tilo Gummel travelled to India posing as potential buyers and took video recordings which showed how some children are being taken from their families and are being made to work very long hours in stone quarries, with very little protective gear and for very little or no money at all. The report also shows how some families are working in the mines with their children.
None of the children who are featured in the report appear to be going to school or to have access to medical care.
On returning to Germany, the reporters confronted German wholesalers and companies that use paving stones imported from India. The reporters showed that children were involved in quarrying and processing the stones -- and most companies responded by cancelling the contracts they had with the Indian wholesalers and mines that supplied them.
Job done.
Excerpt the poverty -- which makes it possible for families to encourage their children to work very long hours for very little money -- remains. Also, I suspect that as the mines lose German contracts and revenue, this poverty will worsen for those families that work on the mines and who rely on the income that the mines provide.
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