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By fay.young on January 12, 2009
Francis Kahembwe and Sarah Boyack at the start of the Opening Doors shadowing programme which ends with three more days in Holyrood. Francis Kahembwe returns to the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday to finish the shadowing programme he started last year. But Opening Doors will not be closing. During the coming year we hope to continue [...]
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By fay.young on November 1, 2008
“Africa is changing,” says Francis Kahembwe, “and there is hope. But the progress needs to be nurtured into life.” [Picture by Yvonne Baginsky ] How can we help African countries adapt to climate change? Is it right that the world’s poorest countries should suffer the worst consequences of pollution from the richest nations? These were [...]
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By fay.young on September 3, 2008
News just in from Francis Kahembwe, our Opening Doors participant, who is beginning a two month placement with Scottish Environment Link. That means (apart from climbing a lot of stairs to the office in the wonderful tower building on the Royal Mile) a fascinating glimpse of what it is like to be an environmental lobbyist. [...]
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By fay.young on June 11, 2008
Francis Kahembwe meets Sarah Boyack MSP at the Scottish Parliament for the first of two days observing her work in environmental issues. Welcome to Francis Kahembwe, the first person to take part in Opening Doors 2008, the Leith Open Space political ‘shadowing’ scheme. As Francis, a forestry expert from Uganda, is particularly interested in the [...]
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By fay.young on February 28, 2008
Question: What was the best thing about the scheme? Answer: “The scheme opens politics to ordinary people who would never otherwise come close to it. ” Opening Doors feedback form, 2007. That was just one response. Altogether, feedback was so positive we are planning to run a second phase of the Opening Doors shadow scheme [...]
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