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Anabel González, Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), at the Innovators Community Meeting 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland, 16 March. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Marc Bader
Markham's Centennial Community Centre features a banquet hall & lounge; 3 meeting rooms; an ice arena, a state-of-the-art fitness centre; bocce courts; a swimming pool with one small pool & diving tank; and a gymnasium.
The Prince of Wales hosted a reception for people living in Britain who are part of the West African community this evening.
©Clarence House, 2011
Pictured is the community garden that Mercy Corps helped the women start in their village this year. It’s the first garden they’ve ever managed, and they hope to extend it next year with a drip irrigation system that Mercy Corps plans to build. They’re growing a wide variety of vegetables like tomatoes, lettuce, cabbage and potatoes, which they use to feed their families and also sell for some additional income.
Credit: Mercy Corps
26 June 2014. El Fasher: (Center) Jazira Ahmad Mohamad is a Community Policing Volunteer working since 2008 in the Zam Zam camp for Internally Displaced People (IDP), North Darfur.
Over 5.200 IDPs are currently working as Community Policy Volunteers all over Darfur, all trained and equipped by UNAMID and UNDP, providing liaison between the local community and the police officers during their daily patrols in the IDP camps and being the first-level responders for victims of crimes.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
Today I was the beneficiary of Community Service Day, when high school seniors from Acton-Boxborough Regional High School provide help to local senior citizens. A large, cheerful team arrived with rakes and smiles, and soon my yard looked neat and cared for.
The Karen Murillo Dancers perform the Maypole Dance, Wath Community Festival, Wath upon Dearne, Rotherham, South Yorkshire.
Wath Community Festival is a part of a much bigger 4 day and night annual festival on the first Bank Holiday in May. There's a lot going on, and the main festival attracts some big names, especially in the Folk world - Barbara Dickson the main attraction this year.
The Community Festival is a free festival that comprises of traditional and modern street acts like Morris Dancing, Drummers, Maypole Dancing, Irish Dancing etc in the morning. Then it's up the hill to the Parish Church for the reading of Thomas Tuke's will followed by the famous bread throwing from the church steeple (see below for more details). This is followed by a Folk Festival on the Church Green. Then it's the evening music festival. And that's just the Saturday.
The will of Thomas Tuke (a local rich guy who died in 1810) provided money so that 40 dozen penny loaves should be thrown to the poor from the 'the leads of the Church' on St. Thomas Day every year … forever. Although St. Thomas Day is 21st December, the throwing has been moved to the Bank Holiday because the weather is sometimes better.
Windward Community College held an on-campus, drive-through caravan on May 14, 2021. There was an on-screen ceremony that the graduates watched from their cars before the commencement caravan began.
(Karen Kasmauski/MCSP).A clinic was set up to serve the fishing community, oil rigs are off shore.Fishing community of Ewe, a boat just came in, this mother comes to the clinic for pre and post natal care.
Community Beach Club built using river as pool, volleyball courts, stone wall and entrance, potted trees and lounge chairs. Beach built out using shrubs, patio seating, benches and planters.
(Karen Kasmauski/MCSP). A clinic was set up to serve the fishing community, oil rigs are off shore.Fishing community of Ewe, a boat just came in. Men are sorting out the shrimp caught.
Freshman Marcello Orlando submitted this photo of a recent Freshman Success Communities boating trip in the Boston Harbor.
Esperanza Community Services was founded by Guadalupe Reyes in 1969 as a school for children whose learning needs were not met in traditional classrooms. It now provides an alternate school for more than 60 full-time students ranging from kindergarten to 22-years-old with developmental disabilities, as well as services for around 70 adults, including in-home and at group homes in the neighborhood. The center is predominantly housed in the former St. Columbkille Catholic School at 520 N. Marshfield Ave. Since Esperanza moved into the structure in the 1970s, it has received few upgrades and major repairs. A recently received $585,230 grant will allow for renovation to commence this fall, coordinating with the ongoing school year with an estimated completion by 2024.
Organized in 1859, St. Columbkille Church was located at 1638 W. Grand Ave. In 1899, the Sisters of Providence took charge when the Holy Cross Brothers withdrew and Father Dunne invited the sisters to take charge of the boys’ school. In 1907, the sisters also took charge of the girls’ school due to the withdrawal of the Sisters of Charity. Boys and girls were in separate rooms. The grammar school for the girls developed into a full eight grades and a commercial high school. Because of the lack of available sisters, the grammar school closed in 1971. The commercial school closed in 1969. The church, since demolished, closed in 1975.
www.wanderfoot.com / The Wanderlust Festival infused my soul with inspiration, gratitude and joy! This heart opening event brings together amazing people from all around the world to celebrate conscious living, nature, yoga, community, music and celebration! This experience provides a potent opportunity for creating powerful positive change in the world on a personal and collective level. ~Namaste
PHOTO CREDIT: Kate Holt for JHPIEGO/MCSP. Philomena Mireku –Deputy Director of Nursing Services poses for a a photograph in the Eastern Regional Hospital, in Accra, Ghana on the 11th January, 2016. Philomena is a nurse Midwife, and trained to be a preceptor with Jhpiego in 2002.The hospital records 450 deliveries per month. Challenges include lack of appropriate delivery beds, lack of cubicles to handle women at various stages of labor. Though delivery is free, clients pay for normal deliveries to cover up delays in NHIS reimbursements.
Eastern Regional Hospital – Koforidua
Philomania Mireku - Deputery Director of Nursing Services
"I have been a trainer for Jhpiego before for many years.
We have 354 beds at the moment and do between 450 – 500 deliveries per month. We do all types of training with student midwives. We need a real delivery bed – a convertible bed that the women can be on for the first stage and then when she reaches the second stage we can move the bed for her to make sure she is comfortable. We would also like some delivery chairs because some women are more comfortable delivering in a chair. We need more training and refresher courses for our preceptors. All of our qualified midwifes in our labor ward are trained as Preceptors – We would like to see our midwives specifically in the labor ward. We have 15 midwives who work in the labor ward and for the whole hospital I have 54 midwives distributed in 5 units. Labor, pre-natal, gynecology and family planning, and ante-natal. We have around 380 women accessing family planning services every month. The numbers are increasing. I am seeing that women are having less babies. We used to have 10, 9 8 births. Now we are only getting this occasionally. These women we introduce postpartum family planning to. We always have a supply of the right drugs including ARV’s and oxytocin. We need more monitors for the labor wards and post natal wards. Our ICU until was only set up in November. There is also Korle Bu and another one. So three regional hospitals have modern ICU’s. Before we had the ICU we had a special baby care unit but it wasn’t well equipped like this new unit. We had a few incubators but if we had very critically ill patients we had to refer to Korle Bu – we would have to call an ambulance for the mothers and the relatives would have to pay for this. And now we are having cases referred to us from all over the region and the district hospitals.
There are many challenges facing women in Ghana. The first challenge is access to facilities. The road network is bad so sometimes instead of them coming to the hospital for skilled delivery they decide to stay in their villages and they have complications. And if they have complications by the time they get to us the case is bad. Sometimes too we have staff attitude which is also a problem. We need to train our staff in customer care and how to relate to patients. We need to train them in respectful maternity care. Respecting the rights of the patients and realizing that as the mother the woman has rights. We have on average three maternal deaths a months and neo-natal about 10 per month. This is because a lot of the mothers are not able to access good ante natal care. But sometimes for a midwife to detect that the mother is at risk is difficult. Even if a midwife refers a mother the mother may take her time in getting to the hospital – she may need to find the money for transport, wait for her mother in law etc. And then the mother will arrive three days after the referral. Sometimes the women just don’t understand the importance of the referral. And sometimes the midwife doesn’t have the confidence to give magnesium sulfate to women as an anti-convulsant to stop eclampsia or it is out of date and the women will go into convulsions and the baby will die. If the mother fits the mother and baby will die. But sometimes the health centers wont’ test urine protein to detect pre-eclampsia as part of the women’s care so they can’t detect it early enough. We have trained so many nurses and midwifes to provide family planning and we are training community health nurses to insert the implants but the problem is the attitude of the women themselves and their misconceptions and people cannot correct these misconceptions for them. They have to work out and decide the size of their own family – we can’t do this for them. “
... hard at work ! Fortunately, there's not a lot of traffic on the road this Easter holiday weekend.
Captain Charles Fitzgerald, born Kilkee 1791 (the son of a country gentleman of the old Irish school. (Fathers name Robert) was Governor of Gambia 1844 to 1847 also Governor of Western Australia from 1848 to 1855. He is buried at Killfearagh graveyard on the Carrighaholt Rd. Outside of Kilkee. (Protestant side)
Captain Charles Fitzgerald spent his retirement years in Kilkee and was noted in the press for attendance at meetings in support of establishing the West Clare Railway.
In 1857 Captain FitzGerald was appointed C.B., and retired to his home, Geraldine House. Geraldine place. Kilkee, where he died aged 96 on 29 December 1887.
Twice married: first on the 5/5/1837 to Lucy (died 18 NOV 1843), youngest daughter of Dr Austin, and second in 1848 to Eleanora Caroline, (ELVES ELONORA CAROLINE ARABELLA) known as Ellen, eldest daughter of Charles Carey Elwes, of Billing Hall and sister of Valentine Dudley Henry Cary-Elwes Esq. The Elwes were a prominent Northamptonshire family. (The actor Cary Elwes is a descendent of Valentine Cary-Elwes)
ELEANOR CAROLINE ARABELLA FITZGERALD DIED EARLY 1890 AGED 62.
Captain Charles Fitzgerald had two children, neither married.
I recently found a book signed by Eleanora FitzGerald (nee Elwes) from Geraldine House Kilkee. The name of the book was The Modern housewife by Alexis Soyer dated 1849.
Captain Charles’s father was Robert Fitzgerald who died in Kilkee in 1806 aged 63. Robert is buried in Kiltinnaun Bansha near Kilkee (I think his wife was Lucy who died in 1836 at Kilkee house Kilrush)
Roberts father was Edmund Fitzgerald of Abbeyfeale, county Limerick who married Margaret Keane(Her father was Charles Keane of Kildimo: son of "Robert of Ross/near Kilkee)
Captain Charles Fitzgerald’s ancestors can be traced back to Ballymaloe Imokilly Cloyne County cork in the 15 Cent. He was a distant relative of the Duke of Leinster.
Capt Charles had two brothers Robert Fitzgerald Esq. of Kilkee and George Fitzgerald of Kilkee. Robert Fitzgerald's grandson Henry Boyd Fitzgerald was last recorded living in Brighton Square Dublin in 1919. I found very little evidence recorded of Roberts other grandsons James Charles and William of Castleblaney.
Capt Charles fitzgerald's Sister Alicia married a Frank Leyden of liverpool in 1841.
This article was first published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, (MUP), 1966
Charles FitzGerald (1791-1887), governor, was the son of Robert FitzGerald of Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland, and a cadet of the ducal house of Leinster. He entered the navy in March 1809, passed his examination in 1815, and was first commissioned in March 1826. He served for a time as a lieutenant in the coastguard, and in 1833-36 commanded first the Cruiser and then theBelvidera on the North American and West Indian Stations. In 1838 he was sent in command of the Buzzard to the west coast of Africa to help suppress the slave trade, and served there with distinction. He was invalided home in 1840, promoted commander, and placed on half pay.
In 1844 FitzGerald was appointed lieutenant-governor of the British settlements on the Gambia. It was a comparatively quiet post, and the only significant event during his administration was an imbroglio in the higher public service, during which the governor suspended his chief justice,(Sir) Richard Graves MacDonnell, who later succeeded him as governor, and still later served as governor of South Australia. FitzGerald returned to England in 1847 and in July was appointed governor of Western Australia in succession to Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Clarke. However, FitzGerald insisted on taking the leave accruing to him from his Gambia appointment, and thus did not arrive in Western Australia until 12 August 1848. He was then 57, and twice married: first in 1837 to Lucy, youngest daughter of Dr Austin, and second in 1848 to Eleanora Caroline, daughter of Charles Elwes, of Great Billing, Northamptonshire.
On arrival in the colony FitzGerald found the local Treasury almost empty and a general despondency hanging over the pastoralists and farmers, nearly all of whom were thoroughly dissatisfied with the high price of crown land, the lack of labour and the interim administration of Colonel Frederick Irwin and his colonial secretary, George Moore. There were fewer than 5000 people in the whole colony. Neither workmen nor capitalists had been attracted to it for many years, and the colonists had already petitioned for convicts to be sent from Britain. FitzGerald was instructed to inquire whether the colonists would accept a small number of well-behaved convicts from Pentonville; after confirming that they would be welcome, he informed Earl Grey in London, who quickly instigated an Order in Council in May 1849 to convert Western Australia into a penal colony. The British government promised to send out as many free immigrants as convicts.
The first two ships carrying convicts arrived at Fremantle in 1850, and thereafter the colony received about three shiploads of felons a year, though their arrival was very irregular and no advance notice of either dates or numbers was given to the colonial authorities. The result was an alternation of surfeits and deficits in the supply of labour. By the end of 1855, the year in which FitzGerald retired, 3668 convicts had arrived in Western Australia, nearly half of them already holding tickets-of-leave entitling them to seek private employment and to be paid wages; if employers were not prepared to take them, they were employed by the government on public works at below-market wages. During these five years FitzGerald was not responsible for the day-to-day administration of the convict system, which was in the competent hands of Captain E. Y. W. Henderson, R.E., and his subordinate officers. However, inasmuch as FitzGerald was responsible for general policy, he had some control over the methods used to employ and to discipline the men, and he acquired the reputation of being at once autocratic, kind-hearted and humane. With more interest in the quick and efficient dispersal of convicts throughout the colony's rural districts than in the construction of a plethora of cheap public works, he adopted a country depot system to help private employers to engage the men. The remaining convicts were employed in building the Fremantle gaol and on other ancillary works. Although the labour supply for public works was never high, FitzGerald was able to claim credit for several notable improvements, especially the new roads from Perth to Fremantle, Guildford and Albany; he also used Aboriginal prisoners on the Perth-Albany project. Other notable improvements around Perth included the draining of several swamps and the erection of the first buildings specifically for use as a hospital and government schools.
During FitzGerald's administration the population of Western Australia nearly trebled, reaching 12,000, of whom about 3000 were convicts under sentence. Although the British government honoured its promise to send out assisted free immigrants, the colonists were not especially pleased with the quality of the English paupers and single Irish girls who were dispatched to counter an alarming decrease in the proportion of women in the colony. Furthermore, most free migrants to the Australian colonies had by-passed Albany and other western ports on their way to the Victorian and New South Wales goldfields. However, there had been little serious crime among the convicts, while the free immigrants had been readily absorbed into the community and the Irish girls showed no reluctance to marry the ex-convicts.
At the same time the economy of the colony benefited greatly from the increased imperial expenditure and the rising population. The fertile lands north of the Moore River in the vicinity of Champion Bay were settled by pastoralists taking advantage of the increased local market for meat and agricultural produce. After his arrival FitzGerald had strongly supported exploration of this district; on a tour of inspection in 1848 he was speared in the leg by Aboriginals and was fortunate to escape with his life. Wool production also improved in the early 1850s, pearl fishing began at Shark Bay, and a little lead was mined at Geraldine on the Murchison north of Geraldton, both place-names commemorating the governor. On the whole, therefore, the colony had recovered from its twenty years of economic depression, and the changing temper of the settlers, as well as the improvements in trade and commerce, confirmed the permanency of the colony.
FitzGerald's autocratic quarter-deck manner did not endear him to the leading settlers, who had been soured by long years of stagnation and were bent on gaining the greatest possible representation and power in the Legislative Council, as well as the quickest possible benefit from convict labour. They had always found Downing Street control of their public finances and land policy extremely galling, and orders from London were not at all palatable when coming from a salty ship's captain, who had been turned into a sort of schoolmaster, and who was more acquainted with giving orders than with receiving advice, especially from a highly critical and frequently intemperate local press.
FitzGerald appeased the opposition a little by appointing non-officials to the Council but by the very nature of the colony he had to remain an autocratic dispenser of his employer's policies. He was also a little unfortunate in his subordinates. With the important post of colonial secretary filled by three different men during his administration, FitzGerald had to intrude into too many petty affairs of government. Nor was he well served in the matter of government finance, which was also unfortunate because he had little business acumen. Any judgment on his abilities as an administrator and on his rather modest and unostentatious achievements must also be tempered by the fact that he governed the most insignificant Australian colony at the time of its greatest depression, and when its acceptance of convict labour was totally at variance with the policies of the other colonies. The critics of Western Australia were legion.
While FitzGerald performed with credit and social aplomb the many minor duties of his office, his young and attractive wife conducted a vigorous social programme revolving around Government House. She excelled at the opening of charity bazaars. She superintended an Anglican Sunday school, and she helped to organize a school for immigrant children. Her stay in Western Australia was probably the highlight of her life. Early in 1854 her husband was informed that his term of office was drawing to a close; in November his successor was appointed, and the FitzGeralds left Western Australia in July 1855.
Captain FitzGerald was probably thankful to be relieved of responsibility for governing a colony which daily became more penal, because he had always maintained that although the immediate economic effects of convict transportation were beneficial, its continuance would keep out the men and capital who alone could make it prosper. Such, indeed, was the tenor of his evidence to a select committee of the House of Lords, which in June 1856 examined him on his administration. In 1857 Captain FitzGerald was appointed C.B., and retired to his home, Geraldine House, Kilkee, where he died on 29 December 1887.