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Joint Statement Urging World Bank Action on Cambodian Civil Society Reprisals

Cambodia: Joint Statement Urging World Bank Action on Civil Society Reprisals

As an international coalition of 163 expert and civil society organisations, we urge World Bank action on Cambodian government attacks on two prominent human rights groups, Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights and Equitable Cambodia. International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, states that the private sector has a …

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WBI Participants Selected in a National Programme of Community Research

16 October 2024. We are thrilled to announce that two WBI researchers have been selected in a national programme to focus on health inequalities experienced by marginalised communities. WBI is one of the 11 voluntary sector organisations chosen after a competitive application process.  Funded by NHS England’s School of Public Health and delivered by the …

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WBI Launches 3rd Run of Food With Friends With a Health Talk on Breast Cancer

2nd October 2024. With thanks again to the National Lottery Community Fund, we are back with our much-loved community project Food with Friends for two more years. We kicked off the 3rd run with our first health talk on Breast Cancer at the end of September.  We started Food with Friends in December 2022 to …

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Community Fund supports two more years of WBI’s Food with Friends

26 September 2024. We say a big thank you to the National Lottery Community Fund for funding two more years of our Food with Friends project on food security and health education for marginalised communities in Portsmouth. WBI will host our next hallmark event Food with Friends next week, thanks to a generous two-year funding …

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WBI Runs Workshop to Develop Migrants’ Digital Skills for Job Search

28 June 2024. As part of WBI’s commitment to support migrant employment, we hosted a LinkedIn workshop to provide guidance to optimise jobseekers’ LinkedIn profiles, including facilitating a session for professional profile photos. This project was made possible by Portsmouth City Council’s Community Inclusion Grant 2024. The workshop was delivered by a QA Engineer, Emre Bektas, …

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WBI hosts Food with Friends in collaboration with Hormones on the Blink

24 May 2024. For our May Food with Friends we invited hormone health training provider Sophie Cartledge, from Hormones on the Blink, to deliver an information session on Menopause for women from the Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.  Hormones on the Blink is an education and advocacy provider, specialised in addressing the often overlooked …

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WBI Hosts Digital Privacy Workshop with City of Portsmouth College

6 May 2024. WBI hosted another Digital Privacy workshop to raise awareness of how personal, browsing and financial data could be exploited online. To support the new migrants’ tech-literacy WBI runs this workshop twice a year in collaboration with City of Portsmouth College. Participants were surprised to discover that their browsing history and personal information …

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WBI Conducts Interviews on Community Gardening for Local Research

7 May 2024. As part of our upcoming project report on local environmental action, we share a preview of the quotes gathered as part of our qualitative research. In March 2024, we sat down with project participants from various minority backgrounds to hear why they are taking part, what is their experience of community gardening, …

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WBI & Migrant Volunteers celebrate Earth Day with Community Gardening in Portsmouth

22 April 2024. Happy Earth Day from the WBI team! We wrapped up the final gardening session for our research project funded by Natural England at the Milton Piece Allotment in Portsmouth, where our migrant volunteers joined in the community gardening.  What better way to celebrate our planet than being outdoors, connecting with nature and …

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