Category: UN Goals
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UN16 – Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions : Laos
Some of you will know that I like to base my trips around the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This time, it is Goal No 16. The mission statement is this: “to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels”.…
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UN13 : Climate Action : Chile
It’s a long flight from Turkey to Chile. Routing through Sao Paulo you are a minimum 20 hours travelling or if you get it wrong 30 hours. Yet this is a country I have always wanted to visit. The land of Isabella Allende, the Andes, Chilean Patagonia and the Atacama Desert. How can a country…
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UN14 : Life below water : Madagascar
A few people have asked me if I will continue the blog after I return from Namibia. I have been overwhelmed by the positive comments received and my web provider has given me data that, to date, my 34 posts have been read 1430 times by 305 different people. I don’t know that many people!…
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UN15 – Life on land : Namibia
On 22nd September 23 I start a 4 week project working with EHRA, a Namibian registered non profit organisation. They work to conserve the last desert dwelling elephants. The remaining numbers of elephants in Africa as a whole are disputed, but the EHRA estimate that an elephant is killed every 15 minutes – namely to…
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What nettles to grasp now?
My next dream is to do some work in the field of Social Anthropology. With seemingly few links between this, and the fashion textile business that I have just left I need to go in to a period of re-education. Sitting alongside this is a plan to undertake a project on each of the 17…
