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Samba Kings are gone, but AA Bangla’s blog is here to stay…

06/07/2010 in TOTO Bangladesh by joelkatz | 7 comments

Joel Katz
Outreach Blogger
6 July 2010

Two weeks since we arrived back in Sydney from Dhaka. Swapped street stall Chais for Gloria Jean’s Cocoa Loco  Frappacinos. My fun-loving Bengali chums for Bondi’s skinny-jeans set. And Bollywood movies for nightly viewings of MasterChef (still waiting for Bangladeshi special).

Sure, I’m missing the vibrant City-of-Richshaws, and my ActionAid (AA) amigos. But glad to be home, with my beloved, family and friends. And I’m relishing the chilly days. Besides, we left Dhaka on a high – Brazil and Argentina were still contenders in the 2010 World Cup. Read the rest of this entry »

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Old Dhaka’s worth the herniated disc…

12/06/2010 in TOTO Bangladesh by joelkatz | 18 comments

Joel Katz
Outreach Blogger
12 June 2010

Today Sharna and I met up with one former Actionaider and one present one, Jo and Lara. They’ve been awesome ever since we got here, and even got us into the heavily fortified bunker that is the Australia Club. With pool and tennis courts it makes the Greenzone look like a kid’s playground.

Squeezed into a baby taxi, a steel cage on wheels. Three girls in back, and me up front, sitting on driver’s lap. If we crash, it’ll be death by a thousand cuts as we’re sieved through the steel grates. Hold on tight guys – we’re off to Old Dhaka’s bustling bazaars. Read the rest of this entry »

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To give, or not to give…

08/06/2010 in TOTO Bangladesh by joelkatz | 12 comments

Joel Katz
Outreach Blogger
8 June 2010

Just polished off most mouth-watering fish curry at a charming spot in Dhaka’s northern suburb of Gulshan. Inside restaurant it’s cool and calm.

Upper class locals sit around and talk shop, squishing curry into balls and popping them into their mouths. A giant plastic capsicum dangles above our heads with total indifference.

It’s a picture of dignified serenity.

Then we step outside and chaos descends.

Sharna talked about it last night in her post, but it’s something I’m not sure I’ll ever get used to so I’ll describe the scene. Night lights reflect off an endless sea of traffic – an insane kaleidoscope of shimmering colour.

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New TOTO Project – Tech4Change Blog Day

14/04/2010 in Tech4Change Blog Day by Mark Chenery | 18 comments

Now that the lucky outreach bloggers have been announced, Project TOTO is keen as a bean for you to share your skills with us in a new social media experiment – ActionAid’s Tech4Change Blog Day.

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And the winner of Project TOTO is…

19/03/2010 in The Process by Mark Chenery | 12 comments

Back in July 2009, ActionAid launched a nationwide hunt to find our next outreach blogger for Project TOTO. Eight months, 52 nominees, 12 finalists and three challenges later, we’ve made a decision.

But there’s a twist.

After putting our 12 finalists through three carefully designed challenges we were unable to identify a single perfect outreach blogger.

Instead we found two.

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TOTO Challenge #3 – The Winner!

19/02/2010 in TOTO Challenge #3 by Mark Chenery | 22 comments

TOTO Challenge #3 required the shortlist fundraise for Project TOTO to help us reach our $10,000 target.

This challenge was not just about testing each nominee’s creativity, network of influence and social media skills, but was also a practical necessity.

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TOTO Challenge #2 – The Winner!

07/01/2010 in TOTO Challenge #2 by Mark Chenery | 8 comments

TOTO Challenge#2 required the shortlist to create 60-second video blogs on how technology could be used to fight poverty.

This was arguably a much more difficult challenge for the shortlist than the previous blog challenge, for a number of reasons.

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Dummies Guide to Climate Change and Poverty

01/12/2009 in TOTO Challenge #1 by Mark Chenery | 31 comments

The below post is from Sharna Bremner in response to TOTO Challenge #1

I need you to do me a favour. Why, you ask? You don’t know me, why on earth should you do anything for me? Well, maybe you shouldn’t. But just indulge me.

Close your eyes and imagine, if you will, an attack like the one that occurred in the United States on September 11, 2001 happening each and every week. Horrific right? According to the World Health Organization (www.who.int) approximately 150,000 people died in the year 2000 from causes that were directly related to climate change.

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Rudd, Aristotle, and Climate Change

01/12/2009 in TOTO Challenge #1 by Mark Chenery | 5 comments

The below post is from David Rooney in response to TOTO Challenge #1

Do a quick Google on “climate change” and “food shortages”. Here, I’ll make it easy for you: http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=climate+change+%22food+shortages%22&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

“About 225,000 pages” Google tells me, with headlines such as “One in six countries facing food shortage”, “Billions face food shortages, study warns”, “Melting glaciers will trigger food shortages”… You get the picture.

So does this mean the jury’s in and the verdict has been passed, that we humans are guilty of raping and slowly destroying our planet?

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The Inextricable Link between Climate Change and Human Rights

01/12/2009 in TOTO Challenge #1 by Mark Chenery | 25 comments

The below post is from Emily French in response to TOTO Challenge #1

ActionAid is calling on Kevin Rudd to personally attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December (see petition). But, why is an anti-poverty agency like ActionAid focussing on climate change instead of other clearly pressing issues such as education, food and human rights?

 

It is fundamental in addressing this question to establish that climate change should not be considered an independent issue from human rights. The staggering impact that climate change is predicted to have on the developing world will prevent many individuals from accessing their most basic rights, including food, water and sanitation. To ignore the need to combat climate change is to deny human rights to vulnerable communities that will be worst affected.

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