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Paul Docherty blogs about the hand over of the Olympic torch to the UK as the host nation, and how the UK’s young representatives are helping to forge links between schools in the UK and Greece through the power of the Olympic ideals.

Fatima Al Mater blogs about running a poetry workshop in post-revolution Libya and how it was she who learnt from the students, about the power of poetry to express what it is like to be a war child.

Tony Calderbank blogs about South Sudan Theatre Company’s recent performance of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline in Juba Arabic at the Globe Theatre, how the world’s newest nation took the London stage by storm and shows that it is the poets and musicians who create the soul of a country.

Mary Moore talks openly about growing up as the daughter of the celebrated artist and sculptor Henry Moore in an interview with the British Council‘s Director Visual Arts Andrea Rose.

In the second and final blog from his week with the Active Citizens programme in Kenya, Tim Hartley explains how community football schemes in Wales are helping to inspire young volunteers in Kenya, to start similar cross-community teams and tournaments and how the aim of ‘football for all’ is being achieved.

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