The Unsteady Rise & Decline of Poverty and How to Tackle It November 14, 2022 | City Talk One of the largest issues that concern the world is poverty. Someone is described as living in poverty if they survive on less than $1.90 per day. From 2015 to 2018, global poverty continued to decline as it has done for the past 25 years. From 2015 to 2018, the number of those living in [...]
Lord Mayor’s Show brings City to life as thousands gather in Square Mile November 12, 2022 The City was brought to life by the Lord Mayor's Show today - with thousands of people flocking to the Square Mile.
Poverty and inequality are harming the world’s children and it’s time to act November 11, 2022 | City Talk We must do all we can to alleviate the suffering of children during times of crisis to ensure healthy and happy future generations are fostered. A 2020 study on the falling living standards during the Covid-19 pandemic published by Science Advances took evidence from over 30,000 respondents across nine countries, one being Nepal that the [...]
How Donor-Advised Funds provide flexible solutions November 10, 2022 | City Talk Following the introductory interview with Prism the Gift Fund’s Founder, CEO, Anna Josse, lastweek, Anna gives CityAM a closer look at how Donor Advised Funds provide flexible solutions forprivate clients and their philanthropic goals. Philanthropy is inherently personal; there are as many reasons for giving as there are people whogive. At Prism the Gift Fund [...]
New documentary released on childhood cataracts and extreme poverty November 7, 2022 | City Talk The Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation has released a brand new documentary short that showcases how childhood cataracts can exacerbate a families poverty. The documentary follows a family of six in the rural Jajakot region of Nepal. Three of the four children suffer have lived with needless cataract blindness for years and the eldest of [...]
Meet the CEO of one of the leading Donor Advised Funds in the UK November 3, 2022 | City Talk Anna Josse, CEO & Founder of Prism the Gift Fund (Prism), talks to CityAM on Donor Advised Funds –the fastest-growing philanthropy vehicle in the UK. Anna, what is your background? I was always active as a leader in youth movements in my teens, and at university publicly foughtmany political battles in the union. That background [...]
How cutting-edge technology is helping curb the rise in avoidable blindness worldwide November 1, 2022 | City Talk Globally 1.1 billion people live with vision loss and blindness and a shocking 90% of it is avoidable. Sadly, 9 out of 10 of these people live in low-to-middle-income countries with little or no access to eye health care. Orbis, an international sight-loss charity, works to fight avoidable blindness in these regions through hospital-based programmes [...]
Blind people amongst those worst affected by cost of living crisis October 28, 2022 | City Talk The Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) conducted a survey recently, asking 125 blind and visually impaired individuals to explain how the cost of living crisis was affecting them. The cost of living crisis has become a focal point for the government and a point of concern for the public in recent months. Soaring [...]
Blindness in Ghana October 27, 2022 | City Talk Ghana, like many nations, has a clear divide between those who are wealthy and those who live in poverty. Many Ghanaians live in conditions where they do not have access to healthcare or the resources to assist them out of the cycle of poverty. The lack of accessibility to healthcare can often push those suffering [...]
Six facts you may not know about gender and blindness October 24, 2022 | City Talk Women make up 55% of the world’s visually impaired, that is around 609 million women. Women are 12% more likely to develop some form of visual impairment and have 8% higher chances of becoming entirely blind compared to men. As women’s life expectancies are longer, they are more likely to develop age-related eye problems such [...]