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Let the truth about corruption be unearthed by Asha Kurien Originally published on the Evangelical Alliance's website "The mining company being here hasn't benefited us at all. We hear them working day and night, but we don't know what comes out of our community; it is taken away. They're not accountable to us." These are the mournful words of Shego Tijan, the chief of Bonge village in Sierra Leone. Bauxite mining takes place around the clock in the outskirts of his village but he and his people are not recipients of its profit. They are but spectators of the lush forests around them being replaced by quarries. This is merely one of the many stories showing that the transactions of oil, gas and mining companies with developing countries are riddled with secrecy and corruption. The cost of corruption in Africa is projected to be $148 billion ever year, which accounts for a quarter of the continent's income. UK based charities ...
This is Life by Tehillah Toronto
Just got back home a few hours ago after a wonderful weekend of worshiping God and praying and enjoying fellowship at Rano and Jayson's home in Tulse Hill where we sang this beautiful song : The bridge goes like this: I come in empty, I leave filled Bring my sickness, I leave healed Broken-hearted, You mend every piece I come in captive, I leave free
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And we named him Valentine!
"Turkish?" you may ask this chap Who dons a crimson cap But he would only twiggle his parsnip nose Or stomp his snowy toes Or set his coal black eyes aglow To express a 'No!' For he was assembled in Bermondsey On a Sunday afternoon in February When 'Valentine' he was christened For it was to google's suggestion* that we listened. ---------------------------------------- *we googled names of babies born in Feb, and Valentine came up as a search result. Highly amused, Jane and I were quick to name our snowman just that.