Charity – SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR)

Tixover: Visiting St Luke’s in the Field Church! (26.10.2025)

27/10/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

We first visited this Church around 2009 – but at that time we were only focusing on the gravestones in St Mary’s Church – Duddington, and ignoring everything else. This was partly due to the early mobile ‘phones and digital cameras possessing a very limited memory. As time went by, and our genealogical research developed, we were asked to include an ever greater scope in our research which we shared online. This coincided with the technology drastically improving. Meanwhile, when we started this “Wyles” research project – we did not even possess a permanent website – and to date we have had two – before settling on the site we now possess. Tixover is just over the bridge at the Western boundary of Duddington – and is about a mile or so down the road. Tixover (Old English meaning “Kids eat grass on a slope” – kids being young goats).

London: Barking Opens First Permanent Showers for Homeless! (2.4.2025)

02/04/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

The idea for the permanent facility came about after a number of pop-up events at Barking Learning Centre, where guests could see a doctor without an appointment and could also get haircuts, showers, clothes and food.

According to the council, most people who were surveyed at the events said they attended for free food and showers, as well as to see a doctor.

ShowerBox Barking is currently open on Fridays but Maureen Worby, the council’s cabinet member for adult social care, said she hoped to recruit volunteers to have a women-only day.

UK: Bleak Poverty Statistics “Wearily Familiar” – Joseph Rowntree Foundation! (6.2.2025)

06/02/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

Larger families with three or more children have consistently faced a higher rate of poverty, it says: 45 per cent of children in large families were in poverty in 2022/23. Disabled people, carers, renters, people claiming benefits, and people in workless households were also at a disproportionately higher risk of poverty.

More recent figures were equally bleak, owing to the continued affects of the cost-of-living crisis. In October 2024, about 2.6 million of the poorest fifth of households (44 per cent) were in arrears with their household bills or behind on scheduled lending repayments; 4.1 million households (69 per cent) were going without essentials; and 3.2 million households (54 per cent) cut back on food or went hungry.

Ed Sheeran said last week that he was not asked for permission to re-use his vocals from when he sang on Band Aid 30 in 2014 and that he would have "respectfully" declined the request.

RTE: Deluded Geldof At It Again! (25.11.2024)

25/11/2024 Adrian (釋大道)

The resulting Single and Pop Music Events raised around £10 million – which is nothing but a tiny drop in the ocean when it comes to the economic repairing of an exploited Continent! By the time all the expenses were met, aid on the ground was reduced to a few mealy-sacks given-out in-front of a BBC film crew. Starving Black children were filmed – whilst a musical score was superimposed over their suffering – all designed to emotionally manipulate viewers (sat in their comfortable Western homes) to donate money over the telephone. Adult Africans were depicted as being incapable of solving their own problems, or possessing the ability to exercise self-determination. During this time, Whilst the White West collectively deluded itself, Black athletes competing on the world stage would refuse to shake-hands with their White colleagues – or be filmed together in a bid to avoid this trap. It would seem that in the intervening 40-years, Bob Geldof has failed to realise what it took Ed Sheeran to learn in just ten.

UK: Save the Children – “Halt Arms Sales to Israel”! (23.8.2024)

23/08/2024 Adrian (釋大道)

The British-based organization wrote on X, “We are deeply distressed to see that six children, including four ten-year-old twins, and their mother, are the latest victims of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.”

Save the Children emphasized their stance against the ongoing violence faced by Palestinian children, declaring, “We simply cannot accept the violence that Palestinian children continue to endure as a norm.”

The organization urged the UK government to take immediate action by halting arms sales to Israel, highlighting the clear risk that such arms might be used to commit severe violations of humanitarian law.

US: Hypocritical “Foreign Aid” Always Empty Promise! (22.4.2024)

22/04/2024 Adrian (釋大道)

Among major developed country emitters, the U.S. is the first to break its promise and behaves the worst. Carbon Brief, a UK energy research organization, shows that the U.S. should provide $39.9 billion in climate aid each year according to the share of historical carbon emissions, but in 2020 it only provided $7.6 billion, accounting for only 19% of its responsible share estimated, and contributing the least among the 23 developed countries concerned. In 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden pledged $11.4 billion annually in climate aid to developing countries, but in reality, the U.S. has secured just $1 billion in 2021 and 2022 towards that goal. The United States has taken the lead in dodging the compensation issue that developing countries have repeatedly raised. The Washington Post commented that the U.S. has long resisted financial commitments at UN climate talks, fearing legal liability for the trillions of dollars of damage. Harjeet Singh, head of global political strategy at Climate Action Network International, criticized that “the U.S. has no sympathy, has no empathy. People are dying, and they don’t want a system here to help them.”

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