Things I Know About... Human Rights
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Learn what the Cluster Model is achieving.
Learn what the Cluster Model is achieving.
Learn what the Cluster Model is achieving.
Learn what the Cluster Model is achieving.


OSTACK MLIGO is a human rights lawyer specialising in community legal aid in the town of Musoma, in the Mara region of Tanzania. He is...


- Jul 17, 2019
- 5 min
Mathews 'The Innovator' Monde
In 2016, Zambia’s Ministry of Health named MATHEWS MONDE one of its most innovative health workers. In this interview, he tells us why he...


- Jul 3, 2019
- 2 min
Things We Know About… Coaching A Local Football Team
Our latest podcast Kenya's Unbeatable Football Coach follows the successes of 18 year old SHARON CHEPKEMOI and her boys football team...


- Jun 19, 2019
- 2 min
My Community: Kericho
DAN RONOH runs a youth organisation in Kericho, Kenya. This is his introduction to the town in which he lives, and the role his Cluster...


- Jun 18, 2019
- 2 min
Five Things I Know About… Running a Hair Salon
For the past 25 years Cluster member CHRISTINE ACHIENG OCHIA has run a hair salon in Kericho. But this is not an ordinary hair salon –...


- Jun 13, 2019
- 2 min
Things I Know About... Growing a Cluster
ROBINS OCHIENG' ODIYO from Kenya's Kericho Cluster is also a co-leader of our network. Here he shares some of his experiences of what's...


- May 31, 2019
- 1 min
Podcast: Kenya's Unbeatable Football Coach
Galarc FC is a boys football club with a difference. Even though they have won 50 games in a row in their local Kenyan league, their...


- May 17, 2019
- 1 min
Five Things I Know About... Running a Widows' Group
Cluster member ROSE PAKOMI MALIMA runs the Musoma Widows' Association in Tanzania's Mara region. Here she shares why her work is needed...


- May 13, 2019
- 2 min
The Age of 'Doing Charity' to Others "is Coming to an End"
Before SIMON GALLOW joined UN Women, he worked with a global consultancy firm called EY, and was part of a 'BeyondMe' team that partnered...


- May 3, 2019
- 2 min
My Community: Chisekesi
NIMOY GERRY is a mechanic and Cluster member from Chisekesi in southern Zambia. This is his brief background to the town and the role...


- Apr 27, 2019
- 2 min
Five Things I Know About... Asset-Based Community Development
For more than twenty years, in over thirty countries, and with hundreds of communities, CORMAC RUSSELL has been a leading figure in the...


- Apr 20, 2019
- 2 min
Welcoming New Faces To Arukah Network
Kenya’s Kericho Cluster held a small gathering for network members from Zambia and the UK last month. Stories and updates were shared,...


- Apr 18, 2019
- 2 min
Five Things I Know About… Community Libraries
Cluster member DR. PATRICIA CHEPKWONY is a book-loving university lecturer and entrepreneurship consultant in Kericho, Kenya. In her...


- Mar 31, 2019
- 3 min
Podcast: The Lions Barber Collective
Tom Chapman is from the Lions Barber Collective, an international network of barbers who provide a space - and listening ear - to men...


- Mar 21, 2019
- 1 min
An Arukah-Inspired Book Launch
Our members TED LANKESTER and NATHAN GRILLS celebrated the launch of their book "Setting Up Community Health and Development Programmes"...


- Mar 13, 2019
- 3 min
Q+A: Dennyson, Bihar Cluster
ABRAHAM DENNYSON launched and helps run Bihar Cluster in India. In this interview he speaks about the unique needs of this region, and...


- Mar 12, 2019
- 1 min
Podcast: The Lions Barber Collective
TOM CHAPMAN is founder of the Lions Barber Collective: an international network of barbers who are providing a space - and listening ear...


- Feb 19, 2019
- 3 min
Podcast: India, Gender & The Naive Enquirer
Last year, one study named India "the worst country in the world" in which to be a woman. HELEN MORGAN has spent the last four years in...


- Feb 18, 2019
- 3 min
Ted and Nathan's Book Launch
TED LANKESTER and NATHAN GRILLS have co-edited a new book which will be published by Oxford University Press on March 7th. It's called...


- Jan 28, 2019
- 2 min
Q+A: Sharon, Kericho Cluster
SHARON CHEPKEMOI is 18 years-old and female, but that hasn't stopped her becoming the head coach of an unbeaten football club for boys in...

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