‘I told them that if I accepted, I would speak against the government’s decision to end its leprosy campaign,’ he recalls. True to his word, Fischer lambasted the Indian cabinet when he received the prize: telling his audience that the government’s claim that leprosy would be eradicated by the year 2000 was completely wrong.

The Centre is an English language school for low-income students, which began life in a garage and now boasts over 500 students.

She had come to the BBFP programme to condemn the Israelis for killing her father.

Kadi Fakondo's job involves overseeing complaints from the public, community relations, and discipline and internal investigations.

THE SWEEPERS of India are at the centre of a revolutionary initiative by the Indian Government to upgrade their status.

Keen to learn more, I join some Love Heart members on their weekly visit to Hong Yan School. Founded in 2001, the school offers education to children of migrant workers who might otherwise miss out on schooling altogether.

When the Mexican government banned turtle-fishing in 1990, many of Mazunte’s inhabitants were left without work.

Seventeen military personnel and two civilians were killed. Most families of the victims added bitterness to their grief, but not 34-year-old Margherita Coletta from Avola in Sicily, who has lived out her Christian faith in a remarkable way.

Connected 2 (C2) courses are Open College Network accredited and put a particular emphasis on disengaged, so-called ‘hard-to-reach’ and ‘at risk’ 15- to 25-year-olds.

Torabi (28) left Kabul in 1992, when he was 16, and fled with his whole family to Peshawar in Pakistan. Before their exile, his father had managed a hospital in Kabul.