At 7.15am, over a breakfast of beans, sliced bread and wild honey, the TV in the parish dining room is blaring out KerryGold adverts for dairy products that “make you healthy every day”, interspersed with 15-minute intervals of images of men or women working out in gyms.
Rather encouraging and at odds what we would be [...]
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May 19, 2009
Congo: Friends in high places
May 15, 2009
Congo: Thousands of miners could face poverty
Inside the headquarters of Caritas Bunia in northern DR Congo, 12 of us sat round an enormous table in the fading light.
Representatives of CAFOD, Caritas, Congolese environmental charity Ocean, local civil society network CdC and academics from South Africa had gathered to discuss the present and future social and environmental impacts of the AngloGold Ashanti [...]
November 7, 2008
Philippines: I feel their fears
The people of Macambol are apprehensive of a future that is dominated by mining.
They see a picture that does not include them, an image of their revered mountain whose beauty is marred by the sight of ugly and alien-looking mining equipment drilling holes into its fragile body.
They wince at the thought of trees felled in [...]
October 31, 2008
“Don’t destroy our community!”
A crisp autumn morning in central London: traffic thunders along busy roads as smart-suited executives jostle past slow-moving groups of tourists.
Macambol, the Philippines: fisherman land their catch along the sweeping shores of Pujada Bay as children play in the clear water.
Worlds apart. But solidarity shown by CAFOD supporters brought these two different worlds closer last [...]
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