So tonight am off with Mark for a Refugee Week do around an exhibition my work helped commission. It's called Human Rights and Wrongs and has portraits of and taken by some torture survivors we work with plus their stories ( Read more... )

On a similar note, if you want your faith in the British asylum services - and social services in general - shaken as much as mine has been in the past few months, I suggest watching Monday's Dispatches on 4OD. Grim, grim, grim viewing - but you should know. Everyone should know.

End of my probationary period at work has just come. No one has said anything as yet, though I have supervision tomorrow so I assume my manager will raise it then ( Read more... )

Children in Need were kind enough to show a short film featuring a young girl who has been helped by the London office of Medical Foundation for Care of Victims of Torture, the charity I work for. The film can be viewed at the following link at 2:29.30

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00w5qy3/Children_in_Need_2010_Part_2/

I was warned that reading about the terrible things people do to other people - particularly women - on a day-to-day basis might make me view the world in a toxic way.

I don't like to think this is true, but there are times I begin to worry that it is.

After a rather tough week and an awesome (if stressful) DT report, I am just really looking forward to a Maelstrom where all my stresses will be IC, and which will hopefully just be awesome and epic and fun ( Read more... )

I'm sorry, by the way, I know I've been horrific at updating this recently. Mark and I have joined a gym, which I'm loving, but it tends to knock me out in the evenings ( Read more... )