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Current AffairsNGO raises alarm over boom in debt resolution companies
One business that is booming in these difficult times is the services
offered by debt resolution companies to people who find themselves with
financial problems. But the charity People in Need sounded an alarm about
such companies on Thursday, saying that the only difference they make is to
make the original debts even bigger.
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Letter from PragueA letter from Kabul
I wanted to go back to Afghanistan the minute I left it. No less because
within twelve hours of doing so, I found I’d swapped all the gritty
wonders of that country for the faux mystique of Dubai. Dubai has as much
mystique as Disneyland, but a cloud of volcanic ash kept me captive there
for three days. At least I had a chance to fill myself up with fish, before
going back to Prague, and to consider everything I had seen and heard over
the two weeks past.
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SpecialCzechs in Afghanistan, Pt. X: What the future holds
As Radio Prague’s series on Czechs in Afghanistan winds down, Christian
Falvey leaves the Czech humanitarian mission in northern Afghanistan and
reports on the feelings about the future among the people working there,
Czech and Afghan alike.
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SpecialCzechs in Afghanistan IX: Danger is a relative concept
The essentials of humanitarian work can be very much the same wherever it
is done in the world, but there is an obvious added difficulty in
Afghanistan: an ongoing, 30-year state of armed conflict. In this
instalment of Czechs in Afghanistan, Christian Falvey looks at the security
conditions that Czech aid workers live in, as they carry out the work of
redevelopment in a complicated and dangerous situation.
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SpecialCzechs in Afghanistan VIII: Spinning wool into gold
Traditional handicraft is alive and well in Afghanistan, particularly the
celebrated trade of carpet weaving. But the established methods in place
since time immemorial are also holding people back in the struggle for
sustainable livelihoods. In the next edition of Radio Prague’s series on
Czechs in Afghanistan, Christian Falvey sees how Czech aid workers are
supporting a unique and renowned local industry with a simple innovation.
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Current AffairsLeft wing parties fare miserably in mock election held in Czech schools
Two weeks before general elections, the NGO People in Need has just
released the results of a mock election held in Czech schools last month.
The results suggest that if pupils between 15 and 19 could all go to the
polls, many would back right-wing parties. TOP 09, the Civic Democrats and
Public Affairs all fared well. By contrast, the Social Democrats would
barely scrape into the lower house, and the Communists would be shown the
door.
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SpecialCzechs in Afghanistan VII: The river gives and the river takes away
Emergency aid is the first step in humanitarian work in Afghanistan, but
much of the north of the country is beyond that now – what the people
there currently need is sustainable livelihood. In the seventh part of
Radio Prague’s series on Czechs in Afghanistan, Czech humanitarian
workers bring their business sense to the fields to help bring tangible,
maintainable profits, sometimes in the midst of insurmountable disasters.
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SpecialCzechs in Afghanistan VI: Teach a man to farm and you feed him for a lifetime
Today Radio Prague returns to Afghanistan, and the Czechs at work
rebuilding a country where an estimated 72% of the population is
illiterate. In this edition of Czechs in Afghanistan, Christian Falvey
reports from the north of the war-stricken country on the educational
programmes of the Czech charity foundation People in Need.
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