The Power of Communication: How sign language connected a father to his deaf son
Deaf Child Worldwide (DCW) is the international arm of the National Deaf Children’s Society,the UK's leading international charity for deaf children in developing countries. DCW works with partners in low- ...
Read More Drug Fight Malawi: Taking Action Against Substance Abuse
Drug Fight Malawi (DFM) is a project that works with young people, particularly secondary school pupils, in Malawi. It has been endorsed by the Ministry of Education which has provided ...
Read More LIDC Director Shares Her Summer Reading Recommendations
Summer holidays are here, and what better way to spend the days than reading some books that allow you to see the world through different lenses. Whether you spend your ...
Read More LIDC in conversation with Persia Educational Foundation – Films from Iranian Women: Women, Life, Freedom –
Ahead of a festival of films by Iranian women co-curated by the Persian Educational Foundation (PEF) and Film Buzz in June 2023, Human Rights Academic and Advocate, Dr Tahirih Danesh ...
Read More COP27 will be remembered as a failure – here’s what went wrong
Mark Maslin, UCL; Priti Parikh, UCL; Richard Taylor, UCL, and Simon Chin-Yee, UCL Billed as “Africa’s COP”, the 27th UN climate change summit (otherwise known as COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, ...
Read More Coral Warriors: On a Mission to Save Mumbai’s Marine Life
Meet Vidhi Bubna, Founder of Coral Warriors, India’s first scuba diving project. We met Scuba Diver and City, University of London student Vidhi recently. We were impressed and ...
Read More Lost in Lockdown: The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on ‘deaf education’ in Low and Middle-Income countries
By Joanna Clark, Director of Deaf Child Worldwide Of the few deaf children who make it to school, many drop out early. Very few make it to secondary school, let ...
Read More Should Sustainability Sciences be ‘Decolonised’?
Lyla Mehta, Principal Investigator, TAPESTRY project* The 18th-century German forester, Hans Carl von Carlowitz coined the term ‘sustainability’ in an environmental context to prescribe how forests should be managed on a ...
Read More Future Leaders podcast: Episode 5 – Frances Leach
We had a great time talking to Frances Leach, the dynamic young Media Officer with CAFOD - the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development. We caught up with Frances just as ...
Read More Inspiring Women: LIDC in conversation with Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, Mayor of Freetown
LIDC recently had the opportunity to talk to the dynamic Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE. She has received numerous plaudits for her work advocating for and empowering fellow Sierra Leoneans. In 2015, ...
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