Floods In Pakistan

I’m sure you have all seen in the news the terrible devastation of the Pakistan floods at the moment, which is the worst flooding to hit the area in 80 years causing immeasurable amounts of chaos and destruction. It has so far affected over 2.5 million people and with a death toll of 1,100 and rising it looks like this is going to be a hard time fro anyone in the area. Rescuers reckon there are still 27,000 people who are cut off by the floods and in the worst areas entire villages got swept away in an instant without any warning.

The hard work is only just beginning for people trying to help as the thousands and thousands of now homeless people struggle to find food and clean water that hasn’t been contaminated by the flood water. Fears of illness and cholera spreading because of this are high and the relief effort has been struggling to provide enough food and shelter.

To help with the relief effort you can give to the Pakistan flood donations here and remember that every little helps and it would also be amazing if people could spread the word through whatever means they have (blog posts, facebook, twitter etc) so that as many people can donate as possible.

All The Brits Are In Brisbane

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I just saw this article on BBC News about all the British people currently starting a new life abroad in Australia and I have to say it does seem to be a bit of an epidemic. I know of several people who all seem to be leaving for Oz at the moment and I knew of a couple of different kids in school who left with their families to go and live there.

I’m not sure what it is about the place but everyone does seem to love Australia and I people who holiday there seem to stay there for a much longer period than most holidays last. My brother went there and stayed for two and a half months! The BBC article suggests that people still have a rather idyllic vision of a perfectly sunny country where everyone is super laid back, drinking Fosters with a BBQ and are only motivated by a bit of surf or a good game of cricket. And to be honest if it is anything like that I can’t blame anyone for going! If I had the chance I would love to get a taste of living somewhere warm, I’m not good with this rain business we mostly get here in Britain.

Mostly though, I’m too poor to move anywhere and I’m too poor to get flights to Australia every couple of months to see my friends, so please, would people stop moving away!

Interestingly though in that article they say how everyone seems to be moving to Brisbane instead of the bigger cities of Melbourne and Sydney and it seemed a strange turn because normally people move to the big city. Being a small town boy I can fully understand why people would want to move to a smaller city. After all most big cities in all countries are kind of similar and to get a real taste of the country you have to explore the smaller cities and towns, if I moved to Oz I’d be tempted to live in the outback and pretend I was Crocodile Dundee!

Hard Hitting Climate Change Warning

Kids narrating videos seems to be so much more hard hitting than a normal adult speaking. I’m not sure what it is exactly but the innocence to the voice just seems to make you feel instantly guilty about something, even if your not quite sure what your supposed to feel guilty about yet.

Thankfully this video about climate change and its effects gets right to the point and begs for you to help join in the fight against global warming as soon as possible. The video is currently doing the rounds on the internet and at the ends it asks if people can send it around to get it seen as much as possible. So if you care about the environment at all and you want to help a charity cause to stop climate change please facebook/tweet this video to your friends or stick it up on your own blog or forum. All help is good help and sometimes helping makes you feel pretty good!

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