Raising money for Help the Heros charity.
Posted in: London, UK
Posted on 2nd Jun 2013
Cyclists raising money to support the charity Help for Heros arrive in Whitehall. Some of the fundraisers have cycled from Paris.
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Posted in: London, UK
Posted on 2nd Jun 2013
Cyclists raising money to support the charity Help for Heros arrive in Whitehall. Some of the fundraisers have cycled from Paris.
...Posted in: Society, UK
Posted on 31st May 2013
Holiday makers and their dogs enjoy the sun, sand and sea at West Wittering Beach in West Sussex on the last day of May 2013. The beach has an EC blue flag rating and is home to some gorgeous beach huts in the sand dunes.
...Posted in: EDL Tommy Robinson, Kevin Carroll EDL Leader, London, Politicians and Activists
Posted on 27th May 2013
Images from the English Defence League rally and a counter demonstration by anti-fascist protestors in front of Downing Street. A strong Police presence ensured that there were only minor disturbances. Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll,EDL leaders, addressed their supporters. The EDL rally was: "in support of UK troops." Demagogic rhetoric highlighted the brutal street murder of Drummer Lee Rigby as a: "turning point [for this country]," which will be "remembered in history."
Anti-fascist demo
...Posted in: Celebration, Images, London, Street Music
Posted on 17th Feb 2013
Alan 'the whistle' Kipping of the Wonderwhistle Antiques Fairs and some friends celebrate the International Whistle Day 2013. Alan's rare and probably unique collection of antique whistles was on display and he demonstrated some of his favorites for interested fair goers.
...Posted in: Asia, Cambodia, Exploitation, Phnom Penh, Poverty, Slums, Society, land grab
Posted on 19th Sep 2012
Millions of tonnes of sand are being pumped into the natural Boeung Tumpun lake in the centre of Cambodia's capital city Phnom Penh. Currently, I estimate the depth of the fully filled areas to be around 4m. New sand dunes are bulldozed to within a few metres of the lake's shanty stilt houses, imprisoning them in stagnating patches of water. The 'Vietnamese' specialist pumping team estimate that it will take: "around 4 years to complete the project to fill the lake."
Heavy machinery is pum
...Posted in: Asia, Cambodia, Images, Poverty, Society
Posted on 18th Sep 2012
Ayda Yurekli, an academic from the World Health Organization’s tobacco control economics unit, is reported by the Phnom Penh Post to have told a conference in the capital yesterday that: "Increasing tobacco retail tax would deter smokers and increase government revenue," and that "Cambodia has a huge young population, and the government has to prevent them becoming smokers. There is a lot of room to increase government revenue by raising taxes.”
A packet of Cambodian produced ARA cigar
...Posted in: Asia, Community, Environment, Illegal logging, Society, Vietnam
Posted on 15th Sep 2012
When the owners of a beautiful old hardwood stilt house relocated from their jungle village to find work in Saigon, they sold their home like many of us do. The purchaser however had no intention of moving into the remote village where the highly desirable home had stood for many years. Build from rare red hardwood trees, felled from the local jungle maybe more than 70 years ago, the traditional building was one of the older landmarks of this rice-farming hamlet. The nearest road-head, a slippy
...Posted in: Asia, Charity Work, Education, Secondary school images, Society, Vietnam
Posted on 1st Sep 2012
Fourteen sixth form girls from St Catherine's School in Bramley Surrey raised over 2000 USD to build a toilet block for the school in the remote village of Na Bai in North West Vietnam. The project was one element of the girls 3 week expedition to northern and central Vietnam which was facilitated and supported by the UK company True Adventure.
The money raised together with the incredible effort, enthusiasm and endeavour of the girls enabled the new four room toilet block to be completed i
...Posted in: Asia, Community, Farming, Rice, Vietnam, Workers
Posted on 3rd Aug 2012
Vietnam. Kho Muong village in the remote North West of the country.
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3rd Aug 2012
Posted in: Asia, Community, Environment, Farming, Food Supply, Images, Organic Farming, Society, Vietnam, Workers
Posted on 2nd Aug 2012
Goose is a stuxury (staple luxury) foodstuff for many villagers in Vietnam. Farmers raise their gaggle from birth ensuring that they spend their whole life in the environment in which they would normally live. No forced feeding or confinement save for transport in a basket to and from the river when they are very young. Mr Thanh lives in a stilted home in the small rice farming village of Kho Moung around 4 hours west of Hanoi tends his young ducklings with the care learned from his ancestors. E
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