Author: tyfairclough
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Women and IT
You’ll have to forgive my silence over the past few weeks as I’ve been doing 12 hr days commuting to the National Nuclear Laboratory, on placement with their modelling and simulation team. I’ve been working on robotics simulation bringing together all my knowledge acquired over the past year at the University of Leeds on an…
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Sort the plastics – lets do this!
I’ve written about this a lot and it just keeps coming back to the fore. Like Cancer, we have to address the root cause of the problem, not simply administer palliative care to damp down the manifestations that occur as a result of our lifestyles. Kenya is an incredible place to learn from. Western excesses…
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Farewell Sharon
I still can’t believe it but I wanted to say how incredible a person, Sharon Argwings-Kodhek, our Managing Trustee (Kenya), always will be remembered as. Sharon passed away after a long battle with Lupus, but not before she devoted herself to helping others, and so many others! This article explains her battle. Lupus is an…
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And finally some good news
“I’m an optimist. I believe in humanity’s ingenuity. Even on the path of the hard way, I think we’ll prevail. We’ll scramble and find solutions. Yet the cost will be far higher a decade or two from now than it would be if we started today. And the scars will run deeper, in species lost,…
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Wishlist
Hannah joins the Sadili Oval Academy in Lang’ata next month, on the edge of the Kibera slum area of Nairobi. Their latest newsletter is here highlighting all the incredible work they do, under the leadership of the fabulous Liz Odera (Dr). The Academy does so much more than just sport. They recently help a Girls…