Guidance and Signposting for Life's Challenges
When Hunger Is Quiet Hunger doesn’t always look the way people imagine. It isn’t always visible.It isn’t always extreme.It doesn’t always mean empty cupboards. Sometimes it looks like stretching meals.Watering down portions.Skipping breakfast.Parents or carers eating last.Parents or carers not eating at all. Food insecurity is often quiet. And it is more common than many […]
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We’re told the same story over and over. If you work hard, you’ll get ahead.If you try harder, you’ll succeed.If you fail, it’s because you didn’t want it enough. It sounds motivating. But it isn’t true. Because social mobility isn’t equal — and pretending it is only hides the real problem. Not Everyone Starts From […]
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Somewhere along the way, we created an impossible standard. The “perfect employee”. Always available.Always productive.Never sick.Never overwhelmed.Never late.Never struggling. And most people are quietly failing to live up to it – because it doesn’t exist. What Does the “Perfect Employee” Look Like? According to people we have been supporting, their workplace culture defines the perfect […]
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If escaping poverty was as simple as trying harder, millions of people wouldn’t be stuck fighting the same battles year after year. But poverty isn’t just about money.It’s about systems, access, stability – and the constant exhaustion of surviving. And once you fall into the poverty trap, climbing back out is far harder than most […]
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We don’t always know when trauma begins — sometimes it’s one moment, one event that changes everything. Other times, it’s drip-fed over years. Not loud. Not dramatic. Just a slow erasing of safety. At the Mark Hewitson Foundation, we work with people who’ve lived through all kinds of trauma — grief, assault, abandonment, illness, violence, […]
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#ConnectingHRAfrica – Day 4. I feel really guilty about what I am about to write. Today we visited the girls centre in Kampala. The rest of the team had already spent time here but, because the flight of the “London Three” was delayed for 24hrs, this was my first experience. The rest of our team […]
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