Today, bloggers all over the planet do what they do best – that is blog – on the subject of poverty. The hope is that by sparking off ideas on the global sounding board we will inspire governments and NGO’s, who knows, even our immediate neighbours and bosses, to get their act together and become [...]

To sum it up: my grandmother’s funeral was a good one.
It was very good to be able to go home last week.
It enabled me to be there, share in the helplessness of not being able to do anything about it, sit in a car for ten hours, sqeezed in between an aunt, my maternal [...]

Those defying the pouring rain, present at the Filmhuis yesterday, witnessed the opening of a film festival of a different kind. No red carpet, no flashlights and no screaming teenagers…however, brief, well structured speeches delivered in English, Dutch and Arabic, a top Egyptian film star and a representative of the European Commission present among us, [...]