Jo’s Blog

95 year old women form their own special strata in the Annals of the Indomitable. Not many of us make it to this level. Those who do command respect and warrant further study: How do they do it? What is their secret? I’ve got one in my [...]

Here’s what we believe: if you plan for the most vulnerable, the world works better for everyone. Organize a busy street so a deaf child with a physical disability can cross it safely and suddenly you’ve got a street safe enough for [...]

When I was expecting my children, I saw pregnant women everywhere. It felt like an epidemic – where had they all been hiding till now? Later, while breastfeeding, I would spot other women in parks and malls and church services. Discreet or [...]

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 [...]