Its founder, Nour Hussein al-Sewaty, known as Mama Nour, also started life in the Maygoma orphanage.
"Protecting people in need is a principle we will never compromise on."Former sub-postmasters turned campaigners in the Post Office scandal have said they will fight on after being made OBEs in the New Year Honours list.
Lee Castleton, Seema Misra, Chris Head and Jo Hamilton were honoured for services to justice.The group were thrust into the limelight after an ITV drama showed how hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongfully pursued and convicted for stealing, in what has been called the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK history.Seema Misra, who was eight weeks pregnant when she was wrongfully imprisoned,
the honour "empowers our fight for justice even further".She said the honours were an acknowledgement of the "scale of the injustice and scandal", adding that the campaign did not stop now.
to be recognised alongside his fellow campaigners.
"It's just sad that it's been prolonged and protracted by the other side, but onwards and upwards. Never give up."“If you remove these plants and animals from GM regulations then you don’t have the same degree of risk assessment, you don’t have labelling and you risk markets because many of them regulate them as GMOs,” she says.
Dr Peter Stevenson, who is the chief policy advisor to UK-based Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), also fears that the technology will further add to the intensification of animal farming - with negative consequences.“The use of selective breeding over the past 50 years has brought a huge number of animal welfare problems,” he says.
“Chickens have been bred to grow so quickly that their legs and hearts can’t properly support the rapidly developing body and as a result millions of animals are suffering from painful leg disorders, while others succumb to heart disease.“Do we really want to accelerate this process with gene editing?”