Puzzled

De malinha pronta

Photo : KaDDD

My life is an eternal maze
My eyes are constantly glazed
Astonishment commands my steps
I don’t care about the rest
I’m a better person than I used to be
Please, trust me
A big house and a fancy car
Will never take you far
Our love, on the contrary
Is everything but ordinary
I’m waiting for your sign
Avoiding to cross the line
Patience is my best friend
I keep the faith until the end.

Filipa Moreira da Cruz

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Almost one in 10 parents ‘very likely to use UK food bank in next three months’ | Food banks | The Guardian

Survey finds third have skipped meal to keep up with other costs and 20% unable at least once to afford cooking with oven
— Read on www.theguardian.com/society/2022/apr/18/almost-one-in-10-parents-very-likely-to-use-uk-food-bank-in-next-three-months

And Boris is still giving parties at ?

‘This is my third war’: Ukraine’s elderly are conflict’s forgotten victims | The Japan Times

Aleksandra Vassilchenko (left) from Kramatorsk, Ukraine, recounts her story as she sits with her grandson, Roman, outside a shelter for internally displaced people, in the city of Dnipro on Saturday.  | AFP-JIJIAleksandra Vassilchenko (left) from Kramatorsk, Ukraine, recounts her story as she sits with her grandson, Roman, outside a shelter for internally displaced people, in the city of Dnipro on Saturday. | AFP-JIJI

Shuffling down the corridor of a refugee center in Ukraine with his gray tracksuit sleeve rolled to his shoulder, 71-year-old Vladimir Lignov reveals the remains of a severed limb he says he can still feel.

“It was on the 21st of March, I went out to smoke. Then a shell hit. I lost my arm,” he says, recalling the strike on his home in Avdiivka, an industrial hub in east Ukraine and a military priority for invading Russian forces.

Now in relative safety in the central Ukraine city of Dnipro, the former train conductor is among what aid workers say is a particularly vulnerable segment of the population — the elderly.

Source: ‘This is my third war’: Ukraine’s elderly are conflict’s forgotten victims | The Japan Times

Grant opportunity: ‘Creative Caribbean – An Ecosystem of “Play” for Growth and Development’ launches Thursday, April 21

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The Caribbean cultural and creative sector is to benefit from a three million Euro Grant Support Programme, with significant funding from the European Union (EU) and support from the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP). The project will be launched virtually on Thursday, April 21, 2022, at 11:00 EST – that’s 10:00 am Jamaica timeon Zoom.

Paintings in the late Barrington Watson’s artist’s studio in Orange Park, St. Thomas. (My photo)

Here’s more:

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, (UNESCO), the CARICOM Secretariat and The University of the West Indies have joined forces to implement the project titled Creative Caribbean – An Ecosystem of “Play” for Growth and Development” in the amount of Euros 3 million.

The three-year project that will be implemented in 15 Caribbean countries aims to develop a robust creative economy in the region by strengthening the enabling…

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