Loneliness, isolation and mental health issues are some of the side effects the UK government lock down measures to help stop the spread of the deadly COVID 19 pandemic has brought to millions of people across the country. “This is the first call I am receiving in over five months now”, a 64 year old […]
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Whether in Africa or when they travel abroad, a large number of Africans are deeply religious. They go to church regularly-sometimes four times a week, pray fervently and still belief life without God or a guiding spirit is fruitless. Africans across the UK like those in the USA or anywhere else across the globe still
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Posted on Youtube on thursday July 23 2020, the song “Bye and Bye” composed byformer teacher turned domestic worker Lucy Turay, 27, has had more than twothousand views. The first eight lines of the song explain the direcircumstances, Lucy and 33 other Sierra Leonean girls/women now findthemselves in Beirut, the capital of troubled Lebanon. They are unable to leave, with nopapers,
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The day couldn’t have been more perfect and symbolic. July 24 2020, the day the government extended the use of face masks in England to help reduce the spread of the corona virus. Citizen Outreach chose this date to again give out free face masks to hundreds of residents of Toxteth L8 in Liverpool. Initially
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Citizen Outreach Coalition (COC) joined hundreds of other charities fighting COVID-19 on Saturday July 11 2020 when it distributed close to 1000 face masks. This happened in Lodge Lane, the “High Street’ of Toxteth, an inner city neighbourhood in Liverpool inhabited mainly by Black and minority ethnic people. Funding for the project was made possible
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Not surprisingly, religion (and not businesses) are one of the fastest growing African led sectors in the UK. Religion including Christianity, Islam is growing fastest across Africa. Some scholars think this is because some Africans, unable or unwilling to face some of the challenges of everyday living, run to churches looking for miracles that oftentimes,
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Close to 10.000 face masks have been freely distributed at various points across Cameroons’ capital Yaounde in a move to stop the rapid spread of the deadly Corona Virus in the central African state. As of Tuesday May 19 2019, Cameroon had recorded 3529 infections with 140 deaths, a figure that has alarmed frontline health
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With close to a million people displaced from their homes, some living in bushes and others in neighbouring Nigeria, Citizen Outreach Coalition-Cameroon (COC-Cameroon) has extended a helping hand to some of them in Bamenda, the North West regional capital. The aid was administered with help from Bamenda based organisation Youth Outreach Programme with Funding from
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More Liverpool and other sports enthusiast joined us on day five of our year long project codenamed “Kick CardioVascular Diseases out of Merseyside”. Football, table tennis and some walkout at the gym were the sporting activities that took place on Saturday September 7 2019 at the Jubilee Sports Bank, a sporting facility situated in Kensington,
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More than 40 residents of Merseyside from young to middle age answered present during the start of our sporting project “Kick Cardiovascular Diseases out of Merseyside”. The venue was the Jubilee Sports bank in Kensington Liverpool and the day Saturday August 24 2019. Table tennis and football were the main game sports during the project
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