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**** Raja will be giving launching his new book with a showing of the full 30-minute film at the South Bank Centre, London on Monday, Sept. 13. Do come along!

Get tickets for the talk here - they may sell out soon!

People Like Us shows the lives of some of those living with HIV in Ukraine and the efforts of Red Cross Visiting Nurses and other groups to care for them and stem the further rise of the disease.

For more information on the IFRC’s work on HIV/AIDS, please visit their site here.

Please visit the Ukrainian Red Cross to see how you can help.

We have made this film and accompanying film site to help influence opinion and make some change.

Every Disabled Child Matters (EDCM) is the campaign to get rights and justice for disabled children, young people and their families. Please visit their site to listen to the opinions of disabled young people pushing for change.

Boris Savelev is one of the most important and well-known photographers working in Russia today. He first came to the attention of the art world in the west with the publication of Secret City by Thames and Hudson in 1981. This established Savelev as one of the most serious artists of a new generation of photographers emerging from the former USSR.

Savelev’s extraordinary photographic work has earned him a place in major international collections worldwide, and his current exhibition “31 Years” at the Michael Hoppen Gallery in London opened to great critical acclaim.

Luke met Boris the first time he visited Russia in 1998 and they became firm friends. Luke has been photographing, learning and drinking with Boris ever since, but first turned a film camera on him in Madrid last year. The film in preparation is a close portrait of an important photographer and a wonderful man.

Anti-Bullying Week shines a light on bullying, sending a clear and positive message that it is neither acceptable or inevitable in our schools and communities. Held in November each year, Anti-Bullying Week is run by the Anti-Bullying Alliance, with funding support from the DCSF.

dust+scratches made this film for the week to raise awareness of the problems of bullying, particularly cyber-bullying, and let people know some practical steps to prevent it.

Last year, we asked disabled children and young people what better ‘things to do and places to go’ should look like for them. This film was made with the help of KIDS Hayward Adventure Playground and the Out & About group from Ipswich and was shown to policy-makers at the party conferences, 2008.

To order a DVD copy of the film, please email info@edcm.org.uk

EDCM has published a booklet of young people’s views and recommendations about what needs to change. They have also published a campaign tool to help young people campaign for better places to go where they live. You can download the booklets here

Take action! Click on this link to email your council to get better places to go and things to do where you live.

But the methods they are using to repair the churches are poor including the widespread use of modern materials – modern brick and cement. This is already causing problems.

Cue the arrival of a team of British specialists from the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB, UK) to lead a training programme, restore the wonderful church of Zamytie and awaken the sleepy village.

The Brits have to cope with Russian ideas of health and safety and the comparitive backwardness of rural Russia- no plumbing, bad roads, lots of drinking. The story will also pick up on different attitudes to restoration: the SPAB believe that the repairs must be obvious so as not to deceive, while the Russians are not concerned with the authentic and like things to look new.

Local government and church will be involved in project – shining a light on the Russian political system and the reawakening Russian church.

Please visit Andrew Ziminski here. Andrew is one of the wonderful specialists featured in the film. You can see his comapny’s work here.