By Katie Stone Reading time: 13 minutes From ice-skating to card-playing, tamales to ugali, gingerbread houses to a share-bucket of KFC, Christmas celebrations around the world are quite a mixed bag. But no matter how it’s done or where the common thread linking every festive celebration is...
By Katie Stone Reading time: 13 minutes In Filipino culture, family is everything. So, when Vanessa Villareña learned about the plight of Afghanistan’s refugees earlier this year, she wanted to do something to help - however small. “It’s important for me to support the refugees as they have been...
By Philippa Hadlow Reading time: 12 minutes Even though my father wasn’t much chop at the Christianity gambit and Mum was more spiritual than religious, we still managed to turn up at church fairly frequently. More often than not, Dad would just peer over the top of...