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Balancing health below the belt

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News & Sports FGM, The Global Pandemic ......................................4 Female Genital Mutilation ........................................5 V. Pickering: RAF Honorary Air Commodore .8-9 Community The Angolan Women Voice Association UK ....11 A Look At Climate Change ..............................14-15 Our Covid 19 work International Men’s Day .........................................19 Thrifting and the Environment ............................20 Black Friday: A Blessing and a Curse ..................21 Summer Activities ..............................................24-25 Arts & Culture Black History is British History .............................30 Health & Food World Mental Health Day ......................................31 Balancing health below the belt .........................32 Business & Finance Bookkeeping for Business Owners ...................37 Education & Career Lipreading Awareness ............................................39

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The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement serves as a reminder to the continuous strides by black people in the UK and beyond to be heard, recognised, and treated with equality, respect, and decency in all fabrics of society. Britain’s colonial past continues to dominate an imperial hegemonic system where people from her colonies are continuous subjects of abuse, racial discrimination, stereotypes, and deprivation. The unprecedented activities of BLM in Britain have registered a significant shift in both the narratives of the past and current realities of the general population. All types of people from across all sectors of society joined in amplifying the voice of the vulnerable, marginalised, used, and abused part of our society, the Black People. The BLM protests in 2020 signalled a beacon of hope…hope as we have been living in for centuries now. These activities have provoked serious and pertinent discourses within the very important sectors of the system, the system that we run to when we are in need, but a system that is blinded by discrimination that hardly comes to our rescue to address our unique problems. Our cry as a people is to treat us equal like everyone else. We seek EQUALITY in giving us opportunity, employment, access to services like health, housing, and financial benefits. Decolonising the system has been a constant cry which is not landing on the listening ears. We have cried against soft-core and hard-core violence - institutional racism, underrepresentation in the mainstream media, judicial prejudices, racial profiling by law enforcement authorities, intersectional inequalities among others. We shall not and will not despair, albeit the unlevel playing field. We will be united and structured like spokes in the wheel to turn our hopes into reality.

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The Thursday session is for the seniors, 50 years and above, starting from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. As elders and people who would like to exchange pleasantries and increase their networks, the first hour is dedicated to a meet and greet session. This is a moment they enjoy and would easily transition from jokes and banter to the second hour when they are engaged with knitting, crochet, sewing and other forms of household activities. The third hour serves as a teamwork for them to organise and coordinate their activities for the following week. Before they disperse, they check on each other’s wellbeing and mental health, and whether anyone needs support or guidance. They also use this hour to plan their field trips and mobilise resource to fund the activities. Paula revealed that they have been facing challenges in identifying the right people needed during the initial stages the project but now they are growing, and the project is spreading by word of mouth and social media. She said these activities are key to the postCovid recovery for the elders and mothers who struggle with the family chores and bringing up their kids. Paula however said that the provision of refreshments and snacks are self-generated through contribution from participants and parents of the kids. She regrettably mentioned that “even our day field events to other cities within the Midlands are selfsponsored and this where we are really struggling because it would mean that if a Senior doesn’t have money at that moment, she would not be turning up and that is not good for their mental health.” She said they are soliciting for funding from donor agencies, philanthropists, and the general public. Social media handles of Angolan Women Voice: Instagram: @ Angolanwomenvoiceassociationuk, Facebook: @ AngolanWomenVoiceAssociationUK

The Angolan Women Voice Association UK is a nonprofit charitable organization which is based in Nottingham and is pioneered by three Angolan women leaders in the Portuguese speaking community: Paula Pontes, Tania Tavares, and Ana Camacho all of whom live in Nottingham. Paula has been on the forefront in the quest to help these new and emerging communities easily settle down in Nottingham. Paula Pontes is a volunteer for Mojatu Foundation with keen interest in women affairs and issues affecting new and emerging communities. She helps in signposting service providers and offer support to these vulnerable people in the areas of interpretation, guidance, and integration. With Paula’s intervention, the association was able to secure a place provided by Mojatu Foundation at Marcus Garvey in the Lenton Business Centre. According to Paula, the association runs two major activities for Angolan women, mothers and children at the centre geared towards supporting them in tackling problems of loneliness, mental health and post-Covid trauma. The kids’ activity is held every Saturday from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm and brings together children from the ages of 0-14. They come along with their parents and during the three-hour session that they are kept busy, their parents will be having a coffee time. This coffee time serves as a moment of discussion, networking and sharing interesting and pertinent issues surrounding family and life. While their parents continue on their conversations, the kids engage themselves with the support team on painting, drawing and other artistic things for the first hour. Teaching them Portuguese takes the second hour because for this group, their language serves as identity to them and transmitting it to the children is significantly paramount. The kids are allowed to choose what to do in the third hour with activities ranging form playing games, dancing, sports among other.

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North Sea - National Grid is looking at building an energy island in the North Sea to power British homes and businesses with renewable electricity. The UK so far has installed about 10 gigawatts of wind power capacity, sufficient to power about 7 million homes, and presently we have the world’s largest offshore wind energy market. Boris Johnson says, ‘we can get to complete clean energy production by 2035’. Solar Panels in Space - solar panels in space could come as soon as 2039. It has been suggested that £16.3 billion could make it happen, and it is considered that the benefits outweigh the costs, especially with new technology being developed all the time. COP26 - the climate summit held

reducing technology. Australian Wildfires - A new study suggests that the ash from the fires in Australia entering the ocean, caused an algal bloom which sucked the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere caused by the fires, negating the CO2 effects. Maersk, a Danish Company - among the world’s largest container shipping companies has ordered 8 ships which can run on ‘carbon neutral Methanol’. These ships are a big beginning to making change. The way they are sourcing Methanol is clean, and CO2 emissions would be vastly reduced in the shipping sector as a result. Each ship will hold up to 16,000 containers. Breadfruit - a food which grows in the tropics and is thought to be a food of the future. Nutritionally, 100g or half a cup provides 25% of the recommended daily allowance of fibre and provides a percentage of protein, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, thiamine, and niacin, it is low in fat and a good option for diabetics.

Emissions trading scheme - this is an environmental policy that seeks to reduce air pollution efficiently by putting a limit on emissions, giving polluters a certain number of allowances consistent with those limits, and then permitting the polluters to buy and sell the allowances. It is a way of putting a cap on emissions. Apart from China and India, other participating countries are European Union, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, South Korea, and Kazakhstan. Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced at the UN General Assembly in New York that his country will end its contribution to global heating and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. Operating an emissions trading system (ETS), China has set up a trade-off facility between organisations to keep emissions down. India is at 7.2% emissions contributor. Under ETS, it pays for companies to install pollution-

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change, creating a fierce monster. Not caused by climate change but made worse by climate change. The shipping sector is a larger contributor to climate change than the aviation sector, Cruise ships emit more carbon per passenger kilometre than flying. Increasing sea level has been noted since 1992, with the world’s great ice sheets reducing rapidly, observed by NASA. China in 2019 was the largest contributor of fossil fuel CO2 emissions. With a share of almost 27.9% of the world’s total CO2 emissions that year, this was roughly twice the amount emitted by the second largest contributor the United States at 14.5%. During the pandemic, during Government restrictions, the aviation industry saw a reduction of 60% in emissions.

‘Everybody seems to realise that climate change is something that needs to be taken seriously,’ says Lisa Schipper from the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. CO2 emissions have risen from 40 million tonnes per day to more than 100 million tonnes per day, in the last 50 years. The question now is, are we on a temperature rise of 1.5oC, 2oC, 3oC or 4oC or higher? People are being forced from their homes because of flooding, the reduction of wildlife habitat due to deforestation and wildfires, the impact on agriculture due to drought. Moreover, the World Health Organisation predicts an increase in child mortality. More and more people are working towards their own climate solutions, for example, through building flood defences, but many people will end up being relocated. Hurricanes - In 2021 there have been 6 hurricanes in the Atlantic area, at a cost of $53.5 billion in damage so far. Hurricane Ida reached wind speeds of 150 miles per hour. A category 4 storm, making landfall over Louisiana. The storm moved over the Gulf of Mexico whose waters were particularly warm due to climate

What is Climate Change? The BBC says ‘Climate is the average weather in a place over many years. Climate change is a shift in those average conditions’. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group of 1,300 independent scientific experts from countries all over the world under the auspices of the United Nations, concluded that there is more than 95 percent probability that ballooning human activities over the past 50 years have warmed our planet. How Serious is it?

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The online programs are geared towards offering free creative media training, coupled with practical work placement, internship, volunteering, and employment schemes for young people in Nottingham. The services target mainly young people from New and Emerging communities who are not in education and employment.

Fearless Youth Association has several projects on going that focus on training and engaging young people seeking to transform their lives. Following the Covid-19 outbreak, we have refined our services thereby offering one-to-one support with both faceto-face and online solutions.

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• • Over 200 million girls and women worldwide have undergone FGM. • 10,000 girls aged under 15 who have migrated to England and Wales are likely to have undergone FGM. • In Nottingham, about 85 new cases were recorded through NHS in 2016/17.

• FGM is any procedure that intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. • FGM has been illegal in England and Wales since 1985. • FGM is a form of child abuse and violence against women and girls. • • FGM is Non-Islamic, against the teachings of Islam and brings Islam into disrepute. • FGM is putting the health of our daughters, sisters, mothers and wives at great risk.

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