Unity Diversity

Joanne Ng and Jayden Joo put the finishing touches to the new Unity in Diversity website and Facebook page Charities always start with good intentions, but good intentions don’t always yield positive outcomes. It’s refreshing and uplifting to work with an organisation whose good intentions are backed up by decision-making and commitment that improves lives in precisely the ways they’ve always intended. Founded in 1984 by Keith Bailey, the Austin Bailey Foundation has an impressive track...

This Friday, May 15th, marks the anniversary of the founding of the city of Las Vegas and the opening of the first-ever McDonald’s restaurant. If those events, in 1905 and 1940, saw the birth of something unmistakably American, there’s another anniversary on the same day that belongs to the entire world. In 1993, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution marking the 15th of May as a date to be celebrated each year as the International Day of Families. It’s a celebration that...

The weather in South Wales doesn’t always help us with outdoor activities, but gardening is relaxing, productive and environmentally friendly, and it’s helped many new arrivals in Swansea to put down roots in more ways than one. Unity in Diversity trustee Hazle Boyles has led a series of gardening projects in the 2020s. Hazle helps UiD service users choose plants that she knows will survive and thrive in the local climate. The outcome has been season after season of beautiful flowers and...