Our niece has flown to Washington, USA, to attend the 3rd annual Olam conference for Jews engaged in global service, international development and humanitarian aid. Last year Lucy was working in the slums of Mumbai helping mothers to set up self sustaining small businesses and teaching in schools established by the Gabriel project to provide daily meals and education for children who would otherwise be working on the streets. The year before she had supervised students on a project in Ghana working in a poor village and living with the people and sharing their lives whilst trying to help in a practical way through education. Lucy was nominated for the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan prize for her work in India and last week she was notified that she had won this award. It will be presented in Washington at the Olam conference. We hope that she will continue to try to “mend the world” and help the disadvantaged until one day there is no longer poverty and deprivation in our fractured world.