Songs of Praise

International Women’s Day (2020x10)

Data emisji: Mar 08, 2020

On International Women’s Day, Katherine Jenkins learns how a 100-year-old charity, Save the Children, was founded by Christian sisters Eglantyne Jebb and Dorothy Buxton. Author Clare Mulley explains how the sisters’ campaigning work for starving children after the First World War led to the formation of the charity and the establishing of what is now the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Katherine meets Christian medics John and Sally Rawlinson, who were inspired by the story of Eglantyne and Dorothy to work overseas with children and families in the aftermath of the 1972 civil war in Yemen. Children’s author Michelle Sloan introduces her book celebrating women of the Bible to a group of schoolchildren, and JB Gill lends a hand to boutique charity shop manager Eugene Cooper in Wandsworth and hears how the Christian faith motivates him and fellow volunteer Bethany Hendrikse in their charity work. All the hymns and songs this week, from across the UK, are by female writers.