Jo’s Blog

I keep getting invited to weddings. Voluntary organisations are famous for first jobs and volunteer opportunities, which is to say we have a lot of young people around all the time. Young people tend to throw themselves headlong into their work [...]

“Children First” is a truism – one of those phrases we all believe in and think we actually practice. Coupled with women (as in “Women and Children First”) it was  famously not practiced as the Titanic sank and [...]

“When you’re blind, you just can’t assume anything,” he said. “But the problem is you get a picture in your mind, and if you get it wrong, you just live inside the mistake.” I wrote a post a few weeks ago about how sometimes we make assumptions [...]

My dearest, oldest, bestest friend (outside of my family) was born on June 21st in 1957. We didn’t meet until ten years later and our friendship did not get off to a flying start. She was the acknowledged “smartest girl” in my [...]

Drs Jiten and Indu Kalhan have been friends of the Foundation for as long as we have existed. It was through them that Moy Moy came into our lives and for that alone we owe them a lifetime of gratitude. But they are so generous in so many ways [...]