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Free Shane Campaign

What a week. It has been about 10 days now since our logistician Shane was detained.  It has been a really difficult week for everyone, no doubt Shane as well.  Shane was trying to guarantee humanitarian access to a population in danger. The government were caught wind of Shane's humanitarian activities and since then he has been locked up. We have been trying to keep the story quiet so that the Aus Consulate people could work quietly behind the scenes.

Yesterday the story broke in an Australian newspaper and we battled to keep the story so as not to endanger Shane. But then I thought this is going too slowly and we have to do something. So we are now making a press release and we hope that a little pressure and media attention can get Inepd Shane out of the slammer.  The Australian High Commission in Nairobi really has to send a consulate to try and get Shane's release. Lets hope it all goes well. I will keep you all updated and hope for Shane's early release.
Posted by mercedes on 08/26/2009 12:47 PM 0 comments

Inepd Charity Event with Phil Collins: Aids or HIV or Both is Very Dangerous

Hoi,
Just posting our last charity event that we held on Friday. It was a great night and thanks for all those who attended. These are the live tweets from the evening. You can follows Inepd here on twiter.

Aids or HIV or Both is Very Dangerous]

Just finishing up preparations here will be live tweeting in 10 minutes.6:50 PM Aug 14th
 
Here we go with the live tweet of "Aids or HIV or both is very dangerous!" Campaign launch charity event.6:56 PM Aug 14th  

Just doing the final preparations here at the Crescent Club in Kensington. Stop by if you get the chance.6:56 PM Aug 14th  

Interns doing great job setting up the venue with some help from HR, Marketing and Comms.6:56 PM Aug 14th
 
Program staff all but absent, always feel uneasy about charity events until the bar opens.6:57 PM Aug 14th  

Interns all in a flutter, I guess this will be the highlight of their stay with Inepd and gives them a really good feel for the work we do.6:57 PM Aug 14th  

Most guests and celebrities are here now. Our few celebrities are mostly friends of Phil's.6:58 PM Aug 14th
 
Just enough celebs to get us over the line for Hello. They have really gotten picky since the crisis.6:58 PM Aug 14th  

Here are our main celebrities here tonight. Rick Allen, Paul Flannagan, Ali Score, Jon Moss and Cindy Blackman;6:59 PM Aug 14th  

Guests mostly musicians and large donors.6:59 PM Aug 14th  

I arranged for the Hello and Ok photographers to arrive in 1 hour. They promised to stay for 30 minutes.7:00 PM Aug 14th  

We really need celebrities on their feet and smiling when the photographers arrive. Until then we have a packed programme to get through.7:00 PM Aug 14th  

Interns over decorated this morning and had to get them to remove a lot of posters. We need clean lines for the photographers.7:01 PM Aug 14th  

Have managed to get the Program, ICT and Logistics staff situated between the side bar and the toilet.7:03 PM Aug 14th  

That way they shouldn't need to have any interaction with other guests.7:04 PM Aug 14th
 
One or two program/ICT/Logs might manage to make it onto the dance floor.7:04 PM Aug 14th  
But this is usually late into the night in 1/2 hour window of drinking between completely sozzled and comotose.7:04 PM Aug 14th  

Kelvin is off tonight to Ethiopia so Annabel head of the Public Health department is going to be the master of ceremonies.7:05 PM Aug 14th
 
Felt a little bit unsure if Annabel could keep it snappy.7:07 PM Aug 14th
 
But Kelvin thought it would be a great opportunity to give more profile to the PHD in the organisation.7:07 PM Aug 14th  

Annabel is opening the night.7:07 PM Aug 14th  

Oh Phil has just arrived, great.7:08 PM Aug 14th  

He has gone out the back and is dressed in a coffee Nautico single breasted jacket with black polo shirt, black slacks and coffee loafers.7:08 PM Aug 14th
 
Back to Annabel missed the first bit. She is giving a lot statistics. She just said Aids is an illness!!.7:10 PM Aug 14th  

Can someone please tell me whether Aids is an illness, disease, infection or something else. She seems to be all over the place on this.7:10 PM Aug 14th  

More statistics.7:10 PM Aug 14th  

33 million people living with HIV7:10 PM Aug 14th  

25 million died since 1981: People are already starting to shift in their seats. She is really losing people!!! We have to get her off.7:11 PM Aug 14th  

She has more statistics!! 11.6 million AIDS orphans in Africa.7:12 PM Aug 14th  

It is getting worse: Now she is going on about the poor and aids and Sub-Saharan Africa.7:13 PM Aug 14th  

Now this woman is impossible. I took that Aids or HIV or both test for nothing because she said anyone can get it not just poor people.7:13 PM Aug 14th  

I didn't even touch that GPs son or that boy on a scholarship at my formal.7:14 PM Aug 14th  

I did date a Barclays' Banker last year who drove an Audi. He may have been technically poor but with expensive assets.7:14 PM Aug 14th  

I only found out later he lost his bonus.7:14 PM Aug 14th  

My friend Cassandra beside me from Cleo says an Audi driver is usually travelling on a road to or from poverty. I should've listened to her.7:15 PM Aug 14th  

Where were we. Still Aids facts. Oh no she is starting to talk about our own programs.7:17 PM Aug 14th  

I have slept through many of these type of presentations in the senior management group.7:18 PM Aug 14th  

She's getting very emotional now that we all have to play our part and stop this enormous tragedy that is enfolding all around the world.7:18 PM Aug 14th  

She's now saying Aids is a disease that knows no boundaries, doesn't care of your race, ethnicity, gender or whether you are rich or poor.7:19 PM Aug 14th  

This woman is mad!!!!7:19 PM Aug 14th  

She contradicted herself again over the aids and poverty thing and called Aids a disease.7:19 PM Aug 14th  

I think she has been using from the expat health medicine cabinet.7:19 PM Aug 14th
 
She's finished, divine intervention, and now she is introducing Phil Collins whooo!!!7:23 PM Aug 14th  

We are over the moon that we managed to get a real A-list celebrity finally for Inepd.7:23 PM Aug 14th  

Phil will do a little talk. Showbiz people always know lots of people affected. They really should have called it the musicians disease.7:24 PM Aug 14th  

Then he will do two songs Another Day in Paradise and Two Hearts7:25 PM Aug 14th
 
Then followed by You'll be in My Heart with the South Kensington Primary School choir.7:25 PM Aug 14th  

Here's Phil. Talking about the heart break all the suffering and lives lost.7:27 PM Aug 14th  

Talking now about Aids how simple it is to prevent and that we should stay safe.7:27 PM Aug 14th  

Great stuff so emotive the way he speaks.7:28 PM Aug 14th  

Now asking us to imagine what it would be like to be a single mother with a small child in abject poverty with Aids.7:28 PM Aug 14th  

What choices would she have to make to get through each day. Phil leaves us to imagine as the music starts.7:28 PM Aug 14th  

Me and Cassandra my best friend Cleo are now trying to imagine.7:28 PM Aug 14th  

No can't really imagine it, Cassandra said she did for a few seconds but she's lost it.7:29 PM Aug 14th  

She's onto her third glass of Champas though. So it could be the booze.7:29 PM Aug 14th
 
Some of the interns are really affected and have been able to imagine it. They probably live off campus in shared housing with student loans7:30 PM Aug 14th  



Phil's really getting into. I will tweet back after the first two songs just want to sit back and enjoy.7:30 PM Aug 14th  

Two Hearts really got the crowd going. Probably a good thing to slow things down now with the kiddies and Phil.7:37 PM Aug 14th  

The ICT and logistics department were actually on the dance floor getting a bit carried away. I didn't think they still made KT26s.7:38 PM Aug 14th  

Here we go with You'll be in My Heart beautiful song, one of our large donors produced Tarzan, heard it is fantastic!!7:38 PM Aug 14th
 
The kiddies are getting a bit over excited the soundperson should really tone them down a bit, ear-splitting actually.7:39 PM Aug 14th  

She is a consummate professional she has switched them off, you can hardly hear the kiddies now.7:39 PM Aug 14th
 
Kiddies volume up at bit at the end. Just beautiful and all smiles with Phil and the Kiddies. The large donors loved it.7:41 PM Aug 14th  

Phil off stage and will be back for drinks in twenty after a bit of a rest.7:42 PM Aug 14th  

Now for the fundraising part of the evening. We are going to have a Celebrity Slave Auction. Each Celebrity will represent an Inepd program7:42 PM Aug 14th  

As well each celebrity will have a special gift for the buyer. Here are the celebrities and the programs they represent.7:43 PM Aug 14th
 
Rick Allen: Andean school feeding program; Paul Flannagan: Peri-natal HIV/Aids prevention program Uganda7:43 PM Aug 14th  

Ali Score: Anti-indentured labour program Gujarat; Cindy Blackman: HIV/Aids Sex Workers program Cambodia.7:43 PM Aug 14th  

This will go on a for a few minutes.7:44 PM Aug 14th  

Hold on!! Looks like we have a bit of problem here. The side bar beer taps are not working.7:46 PM Aug 14th  

Oh God the program/ICT/Logs staff are moving away from their corner already and starting to mingle. We have to get these beer taps working!7:46 PM Aug 14th  

Celebrity Slave Auction over7:47 PM Aug 14th  

Bit of disappointment over the special gifts for the buyers.7:47 PM Aug 14th  

Not a lot of variety Rick Allen and Cindy Blackman both gave drum lessons and Ali Score gave a night out at his local Sheffield pub.7:48 PM Aug 14th  

Hello and Ok photographers arrived early 10 minutes ago.7:48 PM Aug 14th
 
Celebrities standing. Phil's talking to all the celebrities bit of a huddle.7:49 PM Aug 14th  
Hopefully Hello and Ok photographers can work around this.7:49 PM Aug 14th  

Calamity!! Annabel from Public Health has gone up to Phil wants an autograph.7:49 PM Aug 14th  
We need her out she has a horizontal striped white and lime green dress. Fashion disaster.7:50 PM Aug 14th  

Hello and OK won't be able to take a shot if Annabel is within 5m of a celeb.7:50 PM Aug 14th  
Beer taps still not working. Even the ICT section have heard of some of these celebrities and want autographs.7:51 PM Aug 14th  

We need some young attractive interns in shot but they just can't get past ICTs grip on the celebs.7:51 PM Aug 14th  

The horror!! The celebs are about to sit down.7:52 PM Aug 14th
 
Now Phil and celebs are sitting in a huddle with Annabel. They actually looked interested in what she has to say. Very polite or sozzled.7:53 PM Aug 14th  

@celebrityfoxcom @InepdMercedes |Celebrity Slave Auction over> Yes it just finished.7:55 PM Aug 14th  in reply to celebrityfoxcom

Hello and OK photographers look like they are leaving. Ok I have to go. Cassandra is going to take over.7:55 PM Aug 14th  

Hello everyone I'm Cassandra. Mercs in a bit of Tizz.7:56 PM Aug 14th  

She is really tearing strips off these poor fellows and standing in the door and won't let them leave.7:56 PM Aug 14th  

They've gone they found a side entrance into the kitchen. These paparazzi types are very cunning. Here’s Merc she's back.7:56 PM Aug 14th  

Hi I'm back I am going to sue this bloody club. They knew how important it was to have the side bar beer taps working.7:57 PM Aug 14th  

Hello and OK not sure if they got any good shots.7:57 PM Aug 14th
 
Well what a great night and thanks to all that followed tonight. They are playing I Wish it Would Rain Down, I have get up for this. Ciao.7:58 PM Aug 14th
Posted by mercedes on 08/16/2009 01:21 PM 0 comments

Humanitarian Couple of the Year: London Semi Final

Last week we held the London Semi Final of the Humanitarian Couple of the Year Award. It was a great night and thanks for all who attended. Here is how the night unfolded in tweets.

London Semi Final Official Live Blog twitter/InepdMercedes

Just about to start the Humanitarian Couple of the Year Award London Semi Final at the exclusive Duke of York Hotel in Kensignton.7:24 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Real anticipation: Rumour Brad and Angie will be here. Rumour false(was me)! But anticipation is real.7:25 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Celebrity judges Anne Charleston(Madge Neighbours), Paul Flannagan drummer from Adam and the Ants and Roz Tranfield Miss New Brighton 1977.7:29 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
No real humanitarian experience in the judges would have been good to get someone who had atleast done Comic Relief. Peter Andre is Compere.7:29 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Peter just starting his opening set.7:30 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Great opening set All Night All Right and Mysterious Girl by Peter.7:35 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Really got the crowd going and nice walk off with hat pulled down and tux jacket over shoulder.7:35 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
He’s back, a bit out of breath to introduce the contestants.7:35 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Brad and Wendy from Oxfam, Terry and Eve from MSF, Harry and Sebastian from Inepd and Porche and Frederick from Unicef.7:35 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Vincent Clark from the Inepd Emergency Team is here to give expert commentary on humanitarian things.7:37 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Hopefully humanitarian things won’t play too big a factor. We just need a photogenic couple in traditional dress for a Hello Magazine pic.7:38 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Couples now asked to tell about their humanitarian history.7:39 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Unicef couple: Frederick got the Humanitarian bug through doing Trailwalker with his Price Waterhouse colleagues.7:40 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
She had a Champagne for Darfur fundraiser in her loft apartment. Really delightful couple7:40 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Oxfam Couple: Met through researching upward and downward accountability as interns in Oxford.7:41 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Vincent just gave me an explanation. Didn’t really understand.7:42 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
The accountability thing appears to be about poor people eventually paying the charity back.7:42 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Inepd Couple: Met in a Phuket at a community participation workshop for Headquarters staff.7:43 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
MSF Couple just starting7:44 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
MSF couple still talking7:45 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Now MSF Couple: Talking a lot about the humanitarian imperative. Probably something you have before dinner.7:46 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Vincent gave another explanation I didn’t understand.7:46 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Couples now aked to talk about their most rewarding work experience.7:48 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Oxfam couple talking about there time with the Somalia program based in Nairobi and how they dream to one day visit Somalia.7:50 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Unicef couple talk about challenges of finding an apartment and domestic staff in Hanoi. I can relate, had bugger of time in Regents Park.7:52 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Live tweets from the Humanitarian Couple of the Year Awards London Semi Final7:53 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Unicef couple talk of their revolutionary “remote partner self monitoring program” that drastically reduced program costs for Unicef.7:54 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Vincent thought this had been going on for decades7:54 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
I wish people would stop walking from the bar in front of the stage to the pool tables. The Bar Manager promised an exclusive function.7:55 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Vincents a dear he’s going to sort it out. He has been so more relaxed in the last few months since the financial crisis hit.7:55 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Because Inepd’s income has dropped the Emergency Team only responds to every second emergency now and they are a lot happy bunch.7:55 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Missed the Inepd and couples sorry…7:56 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
MSF couple now still talking7:57 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
MSF: Oh God more “populations in danger”, savings lives, Darfur, Congo, Sri Lanka etc.etc. We really should put a time limit on answers.7:58 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Quick reminder “Aids is Disease” benefit concert coming up in two weeks still plenty of tickets.8:00 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Vincent seems to think HIV is a disease and Aids is an illness. Well if a few G&Ts with brekkie is a disease I think then so is Aids.8:01 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
There is going to be a quick break before the talent contest part of the show. See you in a few minutes.8:01 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Hold on!!!!8:03 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Some pretty unsavoury business going on in the break.8:04 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
I overheard the Communications Director of Oxfam offering two of the judges to become Oxfam Celebrities.8:04 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Then the Unicef comms Director offered Associate Goodwill Ambassadorships. That’s a lot of worldwide business class travel.8:04 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
The most Inepd could do is to sit them at the same table as Phil Collins at the “Aids or HIV is a Disease” benefit concert.8:05 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Now back to the action at the Humanitarian Couple of the Year Awards London Semi Final8:06 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Peter is back and now for the Talent contest. I think the white Tux was a mistake by Peter8:06 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
If you are going to drink red wine, beer sausages with ketchup and pop across the road for a kebab in the break white is not the colour.8:07 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Contestants now ready for the talent contest8:09 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
First up is the Unicef couple.8:10 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
They are going to do Lady in Red by Chris de Burge. Porche is in a delightful red dress on Piano and Frederick stylish formal on vocals.8:10 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Really romantic, what a fantastic couple. Peter’s backing vocals I thought were a bit too much.8:12 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Now MSF couple. They are going to perform Clandestino by Manu Chau. Terry on Guitar and Vocals and Eve doing interpretive dance and mime.8:13 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Not really much in this for me. Vincent really loved this especially the part where Eve gets got caught in barbed wire.8:15 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
I didn’t really get this I must admit. But they really gave it a good go.8:15 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Bit of situation here looks like we have reached the bar limit.8:16 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
People are starting to get a bit edgy and it looks like we have to wrap the night up early.8:16 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Peter going to do one more number then back with the results. See you in a few minutes.8:17 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Peter’s just finished, performed Lava really explosive and seems to have taken its toll8:18 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Peter announcing the runner up and Harry and Sebastian from Inepd have. Really well done. Hard to compete against business class travel8:18 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Now the winner. Just as expected Porche and Frederick from Unicef. Really great couple would be great to have at dinner party.8:18 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Ok that’s all thanks for joining us for the Humanitarian Couple of the Year Awards brought to you by Inepd International.8:19 PM Jul 23rd from web
    
Thought I should today with Public Health dep. whether Aids or HIV or both is a disease. After half an hour with them was none the wiser.4:46 PM Jul 24th from web
    
They gave some female condoms and told me to get an HIV or Aids or both test.4:47 PM Jul 24th from web
    
I really thought I was safe as it's related to poverty. So didn't think I had to worry.4:47 PM Jul 24th from web
    
Poverty is not one of my criteria for a date, although I did date a boy who was on a scholarship to my school formal4:48 PM Jul 24th from web
    
and a GPs' son at university(believe me nothing happened!!!).4:48 PM Jul 24th from web
    
So in the end the Phil Collins event is now “Aids/HIV is a Disease”just to be on the safe side. Thursday fortnight.4:49 PM Jul 24th from web
Posted by mercedes on 08/02/2009 12:01 AM 0 comments