Day: 17 February 2018

RSBC Launches Every Blind Child Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Over a quarter of adults believe that blind children have different dreams and aspirations to their sighted peers,according to a new survey commissioned by the Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC). The survey shows that very little is known about the impact of sight loss on children’s lives. Almost one fifth of those surveyed don’t know what effect being blind or visually impaired will have on a young person’s life with only 11% thinking that blindnessmakes itdifficult to make friends. This comes despite the fact that 2 out of 5…

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Tesco Bags of Help reaches 10,000 local projects milestone

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco has announced that 10,000 community projects have now been funded through its Bags of Help scheme. Run in partnership with environmental charity Groundwork, Bags of Help uses the money raised from carrier bag sales to fund local projects. No profit is made on the sale of these bags and Tesco has now donated over £43 million to fund great causes across England, Scotland and Wales through the programme, which began in 2015. Through Bags of Help, Tesco customers vote in-store for their preferred local project, using the blue token…

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Amnesty International highlights plight of refugees through groundbreaking film

Stuart Mitchell

In a bid to shed light on the dangerous journeys refugees are forced to make on a daily basis, Amnesty International has launched a groundbreaking short film, “Through the eyes of a refugee”. The film documents an extraordinary project in which five people from the Netherlands and Belgium were brought into a state of hypnosis, so they could gain deeper insight into the journey of a Syrian refugee. Under the guidance of a professional hypnotherapist, the participants experienced the journey of 29-year-old Marwa, from Syria, as she made her way…

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HandsAway gives voice to women against the trivialization of gender-based attacks. (NSFW)

Stuart Mitchell

In a current athmosphere where sexist and sexual assaults are massively denounced by more and more women (#MeToo), French start-up HandsAway pursues the struggle started 18 months ago by releasing a video to make its voice heard against sexual harassment. Gender-based street harassment, sexually explicit content, sexist remarks, stalking, flashing and assault has become pretty familiar in our streets. This video gives voice to women who describe in their words the ordinary violence of daily life. We can hear echo of their voices while the images speak from themselves…   …

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Blackfacts.com Is Building a Legacy for Black History Month With #blackfacts365 Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Since its founding in 1997 by a pair of self-avowed “nerds” from MIT and Boston University, BlackFacts.com  has been the longest-running data-driven repository of Black History on the internet. Over its 20+-year history, this online project, founded on the concept that there were black technologists who could give back to their community, has grown from a simple labor of love to become No. 1 on all three major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing), having its own Amazon Alexa™ Skill for the Black History Fact-Of-The-Day and garnering millions of national and international visitors and…

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