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Talk to Us, Not About Us

Caroline Elliot | Posted 03.02.2013 | UK
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Caroline Elliot

This week saw the opening of the 6th Africities Summit in Dakar, Senegal with the aspiration of contributing "to the emergence of Africa of the people". Yet it is the people themselves who are all too often absent from such gatherings of the great and the good.

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Ashley Jensen's Save the Children Diary - Delhi, India, September 2011

Ashley Jensen | Posted 18.01.2012 | UK
Read More: Birth, India, Health Workers, Ashley Jensen, Slums, Childcare, Extras, Pregnancy, Motherhood, Save the Children, Infant Mortality, Mothers, UK Impact, UK News
Ashley Jensen

There is absolutely nothing that can prepare you for entering the Sanjay colony slum in Delhi. I had never been to India before, let alone one of the largest, most renowned slums in the north east of Delhi.

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