Sarajevo blog: Day 4 Emdad Rahman WE TOOK PART in a seminar with local youth leaders today, and each member of our delegation was invited to talk of their experience and advise the hosts on collaborative social care projects to ...
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Community flocks to Holland Estate Play Street Event
Emdad Rahman EASTEND HOMES AND its Holland Estate Estate Management Board (EMB) arranged and delivered a community event on the Holland estate to celebrate the Tower Hamlets Play Street event and to also mark the official opening of the recently ...
Read More »Remembering Srebrenica
Sarajevo blog: Day 3 Emdad Rahman TODAY WE MET three families who have benefitted from receiving cows which have greatly helped them generate an income to support themselves. We were welcomed with open arms at each locality and afforded the ...
Read More »Sounds on Sunday: 50 of 50/14
WHAT WERE WE listening to 50 years ago? Here’s a short series on the hits of 1969 – two years after the Summer of Love, the year that humans landed on our moon, the last year of the 1960s. Bobbie ...
Read More »Meeting the workers
Sarajevo blog: Day 2 Emdad Rahman AN EARLY START to a productive day began with Fajr prayers at Ferhadija Masjid. With a strong and steaming hot Bosanska Kafa we were set for the day ahead, which involved meetings with various ...
Read More »Hackney sex offender jailed after targetting young women
A YOUNG HACKNEY man who groomed young women over social media and then committed sexual offences against them has been sent to jail for seven and a half years. He will also be on the sex offenders register for life. ...
Read More »Team Bosnia touchdown
Sarajevo blog: Day 1 Emdad Rahman WE ARE WITH the Bosnia Trust this weekend and will be spending the next few days delivering and surveying projects which we are supporting. We have spent Thursday travelling to our destination after a ...
Read More »London’s New Year’s Eve fireworks tickets to go on sale today
The first release of tickets for London’s spectacular New Year’s Eve fireworks will go on sale at midday today(Friday 27 September). A global television audience will be watching as more than 100,000 ticket-holders gather opposite the Coca-Cola London Eye to ...
Read More »Sounds on Sunday: 50 of 50/13
WHAT WERE WE listening to 50 years ago? Here’s a short series on the hits of 1969 – two years after the Summer of Love, the year that humans landed on our moon, the last year of the 1960s. The ...
Read More »Muslim Charity Run Returns to Victoria Park!
Emdad Rahman HUNDREDS OF runners from near and far took part in the annual Muslim Charity Run (MCR) at Victoria Park which was held to raise money for charitable causes. The 5km endurance test organised by the East London Mosque ...
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