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  • Ex homeless charity boss spent thousands on luxury travel, high-end London restaurants and Apple watches, commission probe finds

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    The former boss of a homelessness charity spent thousands of pounds of its money on luxury travel, meals and watches, an investigation has found Lee Dribben, former chief executive of the Ashley Foundation, also used charity funds to buy a surveillance system, according to an inquiry by the Charity Commission. The regulator said it had [...]

  • Poverty and inequality are harming the world’s children and it’s time to act

    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 [...]

  • New documentary released on childhood cataracts and extreme poverty

    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 [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Promising research on synthetic corneas from London university

    October 17, 2022  |  City Talk

    Aisha Memon, graduate from University College London and Dr Hirak Patra, Associate Professor of Nanomedicine and Regenerative Medicine at the University College London. The cornea is an avascular and clear structure present in the anterior part of the eye. It is responsible for mechanical support and protection as well as for light refraction, making it [...]

  • Tears of happiness: How curing blindness in Dolakha saved a girls future

    October 14, 2022  |  City Talk

    Dolakha is located in northeastern Nepal. Popular amongst tourists and natives, its natural beauty, cultural sites and array of hiking trails attract people from far and wide. One of the largest attractions in the area is the Bhimsen Temple, a site dedicated to one of the brothers in the epic Sanskrit poem Mahabharata. The temple [...]

  • The Tej Kohli Ruit Foundation joins World Sight Day 2022 pledge

    October 13, 2022  |  City Talk

    Today marks World Sight Day 2022. Many ophthalmologists and eye care organisations all over the world are preparing for the day by pledging their eye screenings to IAPB (International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness) World Sight Day campaign.  This year, the Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundation is pledging 27,472 eye screenings that have taken [...]

  • We Should Deploy The Lessons of Covid to Combat Needless Blindness

    October 13, 2022  |  City Talk

    World Sight Day (13 October) is an international day of awareness to focus the attention on the global issues of eye health. The hashtag for this year’s World Sight Day is #LoveYourEyes. Unfortunately, most of those most in need will not get to engage with this sentiment. Over 90% of the world’s 40 million blind [...]

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