Vicky Ford MP @vickyford@respublicae.eu
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ MP for Chelmsford, 🇬🇧former Minister for Development & IMCO chair. 💙Children, Tech, Investment, Science, helping Women & the NHS 🏏🎣
Joined Apr 2022
There is no greater honour than representing the UK overseas.
I am sorry to leave the @FCDOGovUK but wish my successor and @RishiSunak all the very best.
Thank you to all the AMAZING fcdo staff across the world. It has been wonderful to work with you.
RT @JamesCleverly: I spoke with my US 🇺🇸 and French 🇫🇷 counterparts, @SecBlinken and @MinColonna, last night. We have issued the following statement:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/russian-war-in-ukraine-p3-statement
RT @DefenceHQ: A statement on Defence Secretary Ben Wallace's call with Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu:
RT @FCDOGovUK: Ukrainian advances are leading the Russian army to forcibly remove and resettle Ukrainian civilians.
This is not an “evacuation”. It is deportation.
Brilliant science that develops solutions to food loss has never been more important in face of conflict & climate change. Excellent examples from @FCDOResearch supported partner @CABINews - developing biological alternatives to toxic pests for use internationally & in the UK
RT @CABI_News: CABI's Steve Edgington, Biopesticides Team Leader, has featured in a @FinancialTimes story.
🐛The story presents CABI's work on biological cont…
RT @tariqahmadbt: As the 🇬🇧’s International PSVI Conference fast approaches it was brilliant to meet with the Friends of Gender Equality Group to discuss our plans for strengthening international efforts to respond to CRSV
#ForSurvivorsWithSurvivors #PSVI
RT @tariqahmadbt: Iran’s internet shutdowns are designed to silence Iranians as they call for their rights to be respected. With @FO_Coalition, the UK condemns ongoing restrictions. Iran must allow its people to connect with essential services, free media and each other.
Great news! 📰
In May the UK 🇬🇧 committed to the Room To Run Sovereign Guarantee – and now it’s operational!
This means more investment in climate projects in Africa, driving clean growth & delivering on global climate commitments ahead of @COP27
@jtjbooth Thank you James. So many people have been so kind. Let’s hold on to kindness x
To the very many people who showed such kindness to mum for many years and to us since her death, I send my deepest thanks.
To the person who chose to break into her home as we prepare for her funeral, there are no words.
RT @FCDOGovUK: Yesterday the UK sanctioned Iran for supplying Russia with drones used to attack Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
This is just the latest example of how Russia threatens Ukraine’s energy security.
The UK is helping countries reduce their dependency on Russia.
RT @UKinSomalia: 'With latrines constructed, my family & the community feel protected from sickness & other threats' -Naima
🇬🇧 working w/ @IOM_Somalia supported construction of 300 latrines in #Baidoa, ensuring access to sanitation facilities for 1,500 drought-affected families including Naima’s
10/10 In this drought, millions of people are hanging on to life by the finest of threads. One more shock & many will die.
This year the UK will provide £156m of humanitarian aid to E Africa & more in development aid - but MUCH more is needed.
Other countries need to step up.
9/10
Last year the hospital used just 6 paediatric beds.
@MSF have just erected a tented extension to the hospital with 100 intensive beds for malnourished children. It’s nearly full already.
#UKAid has provided a much needed ambulance to @WHO for this hospital.
8/10
24 million people are affected by drought in Ethiopia - three times more than 6 months ago. The acceleration of the crisis was brought home when I visited the only hospital.
Many health facilities were destroyed when the conflict tipped into this region last year …
7/10
.. but conflict and climate change means that many children become displaced when families are forced to move on. #UKAid has been helping @UNICEF with accelerated learning for those who have missed out. This clever solar radio can also be used to deliver tailored lessons.
6/10 To unlock opportunities education is needed, but one in four children in Afar drop out of school before end of year one. That’s of the children that even start school.
At a school near the main road I met kids desperate to learn…
5/10 Mothers told me they know the life of pastoralists is no longer possible. They want to find new livelihoods & new ways of living.
Afar has possibilities for new opportunities, but this needs long term investment - very challenging with war raging next door in Tigray.
4/10
@UNICEF funded by #UKAID give sachets to mothers of malnourished children. Nearly every child needed sachets.
The tiny one-a-day treatments of fortified peanut paste can be life savers. But only if there are not other complications - many also had coughs, prob pneumonia.
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ MP for Chelmsford, 🇬🇧former Minister for Development & IMCO chair. 💙Children, Tech, Investment, Science, helping Women & the NHS 🏏🎣
Joined Apr 2022
