Habiba Banu 🔸
@habibabanu.bsky.social
Co-founder http://spiro.ngo - TB screening and prevention charity focused on children
🔸 10% Pledge #103 with @givingwhatwecan.bsky.social
🔸 10% Pledge #103 with @givingwhatwecan.bsky.social
Pinned
Habiba Banu 🔸
@habibabanu.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Happy 15th Birthday to @givingwhatwecan.bsky.social!
I took a pledge back in 2011 at University and it's one of the things I'm proudest of.
Since then I've moved jobs, cities and even changed my name. I've kept effective giving a part of my life and now I'm even on GWWC's UK board!
I took a pledge back in 2011 at University and it's one of the things I'm proudest of.
Since then I've moved jobs, cities and even changed my name. I've kept effective giving a part of my life and now I'm even on GWWC's UK board!
Palestine demo right now at Downing Street. Stop Starving Gaza
July 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Palestine demo right now at Downing Street. Stop Starving Gaza
Human made mass starvation in Gaza. People being shot waiting for food.
This is utterly unconscionable.
I’ll be at the Downing St protest tonight.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
This is utterly unconscionable.
I’ll be at the Downing St protest tonight.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Human made mass starvation in Gaza. People being shot waiting for food.
This is utterly unconscionable.
I’ll be at the Downing St protest tonight.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
This is utterly unconscionable.
I’ll be at the Downing St protest tonight.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Reposted by Habiba Banu 🔸
A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich
May 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich
Reposted by Habiba Banu 🔸
Trump held up a printed picture of people lifting body bags and said, "These are all white farmers that are being buried.”
The image actually shows humanitarian workers burying bodies in the city of Goma in Democratic Republic of Congo. They are not white, not farmers, and not South African.
The image actually shows humanitarian workers burying bodies in the city of Goma in Democratic Republic of Congo. They are not white, not farmers, and not South African.
Not that it needs to be said, but the "white genocide of South Africans" narrative is conspiratorial horseshit all the way down
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump makes false claims of white genocide in South Africa during Ramaphosa meeting
U.S. President Donald Trump made several false statements and misrepresented some facts about the alleged persecution of South Africa's white minority during a contentious Oval Office meeting on Wednesday with President Cyril Ramaphosa.
www.reuters.com
May 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Trump held up a printed picture of people lifting body bags and said, "These are all white farmers that are being buried.”
The image actually shows humanitarian workers burying bodies in the city of Goma in Democratic Republic of Congo. They are not white, not farmers, and not South African.
The image actually shows humanitarian workers burying bodies in the city of Goma in Democratic Republic of Congo. They are not white, not farmers, and not South African.
I’m a huge Eurovision fan.
It is a travesty they haven’t kicked out Israel who are literally carrying out a plausible genocide right now.
Absolutely shocking televote result.
Huge props to the Palestinian activists in the stadium despite the broadcasters editing out the boo and the #FreePalestine
It is a travesty they haven’t kicked out Israel who are literally carrying out a plausible genocide right now.
Absolutely shocking televote result.
Huge props to the Palestinian activists in the stadium despite the broadcasters editing out the boo and the #FreePalestine
May 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I’m a huge Eurovision fan.
It is a travesty they haven’t kicked out Israel who are literally carrying out a plausible genocide right now.
Absolutely shocking televote result.
Huge props to the Palestinian activists in the stadium despite the broadcasters editing out the boo and the #FreePalestine
It is a travesty they haven’t kicked out Israel who are literally carrying out a plausible genocide right now.
Absolutely shocking televote result.
Huge props to the Palestinian activists in the stadium despite the broadcasters editing out the boo and the #FreePalestine
Timelapse of the second half of the Palestine demo yesterday from just after Westminster bridge to Downing St hundreds of thousands came to say #FreePalestine
May 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Timelapse of the second half of the Palestine demo yesterday from just after Westminster bridge to Downing St hundreds of thousands came to say #FreePalestine
May 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
At the #Palestine demo in London today.
I’ve been going to demos like this for over a decade and I used to find them uplifting.
There’s a chant we used to do:
Gaza Gaza don’t you cry
We will never let you die
Just thinking of that now makes me cry. Because despite years it’s still happening
I’ve been going to demos like this for over a decade and I used to find them uplifting.
There’s a chant we used to do:
Gaza Gaza don’t you cry
We will never let you die
Just thinking of that now makes me cry. Because despite years it’s still happening
May 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
At the #Palestine demo in London today.
I’ve been going to demos like this for over a decade and I used to find them uplifting.
There’s a chant we used to do:
Gaza Gaza don’t you cry
We will never let you die
Just thinking of that now makes me cry. Because despite years it’s still happening
I’ve been going to demos like this for over a decade and I used to find them uplifting.
There’s a chant we used to do:
Gaza Gaza don’t you cry
We will never let you die
Just thinking of that now makes me cry. Because despite years it’s still happening
In the conversations critiquing how much is spent on humanitarian aid…
remember we all spend more on Netflix than humanitarian aid
remember we all spend more on Netflix than humanitarian aid
May 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
In the conversations critiquing how much is spent on humanitarian aid…
remember we all spend more on Netflix than humanitarian aid
remember we all spend more on Netflix than humanitarian aid
Reposted by Habiba Banu 🔸
#USAID was the largest bilateral donor to the #TB response, contributing 19% of international donor funding in 2022. We estimate that the elimination of #USAID funding may lead to 1,390,900 million additional episodes of symptomatic TB and 420,500 TB deaths over the next 10 years. 2/8
April 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Reposted by Habiba Banu 🔸
Ending #malaria is not just a health imperative; it is an investment in a more equitable, safer and prosperous future for every nation.
On #WorldMalariaDay, let’s Reinvest, Reimagine, and Reignite so that Malaria Ends with Us.
On #WorldMalariaDay, let’s Reinvest, Reimagine, and Reignite so that Malaria Ends with Us.
April 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Ending #malaria is not just a health imperative; it is an investment in a more equitable, safer and prosperous future for every nation.
On #WorldMalariaDay, let’s Reinvest, Reimagine, and Reignite so that Malaria Ends with Us.
On #WorldMalariaDay, let’s Reinvest, Reimagine, and Reignite so that Malaria Ends with Us.
Reposted by Habiba Banu 🔸
Watched this unreported world report on Sudan
www.channel4.com/programmes/u...
Really sad but important. Also some really impressive people helping their communities as best they can
www.channel4.com/programmes/u...
Really sad but important. Also some really impressive people helping their communities as best they can
Unreported World - Crisis in Sudan: The Fight for Survival
A report on Sudan's forgotten conflict of displaced millions, war crimes and famine
www.channel4.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Watched this unreported world report on Sudan
www.channel4.com/programmes/u...
Really sad but important. Also some really impressive people helping their communities as best they can
www.channel4.com/programmes/u...
Really sad but important. Also some really impressive people helping their communities as best they can
Reposted by Habiba Banu 🔸
@scientificdiscovery.dev writes on the devastating impact of foreign aid cuts from rich nations.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/we-dont-ha...
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/we-dont-ha...
We don't have to sit back and just watch the horror unfold
This month, I signed a pledge to donate at least 10% of my lifetime income to effective charities.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev
April 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
@scientificdiscovery.dev writes on the devastating impact of foreign aid cuts from rich nations.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/we-dont-ha...
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/we-dont-ha...
There have been devestating aid cuts. The team behind proimpact.tools have been working flat out to triage and identify the programs to save - lives are on the line
If you know any major donors or foundations looking to provide bridge funding this is the resource to share.
If you know any major donors or foundations looking to provide bridge funding this is the resource to share.
Project Resource Optimization
proimpact.tools
April 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
There have been devestating aid cuts. The team behind proimpact.tools have been working flat out to triage and identify the programs to save - lives are on the line
If you know any major donors or foundations looking to provide bridge funding this is the resource to share.
If you know any major donors or foundations looking to provide bridge funding this is the resource to share.
On World TB Day "The fight against TB isn’t over — unless we decide to let it be"
medium.com/@abeauneu/th...
medium.com/@abeauneu/th...
The Loud, Cruel End of America’s Fight Against Tuberculosis
On March 24, the world will mark World Tuberculosis Day — though in much of the world, the alarm bells are already ringing. In Harare, Zimbabwe, Nurse Chiedza Makura starts her day with the same…
medium.com
March 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
On World TB Day "The fight against TB isn’t over — unless we decide to let it be"
medium.com/@abeauneu/th...
medium.com/@abeauneu/th...
Reposted by Habiba Banu 🔸
Gaza medics issue malnutrition alert as total Israeli blockade enters fourth week
Gaza medics issue malnutrition alert as total Israeli blockade enters fourth week
Israel continues to batter territory in renewed offensive as Palestinian officials say death toll of war has passed 50,000
Malnutrition is spreading in Gaza, medics and aid workers in the devastated Palestinian territory are warning, as a total Israeli blockade of all supplies enters its fourth week.
There has been no sign that Israel will open entry points to allow essential aid to flow or ease its new offensive in Gaza, which started on Tuesday with a wave of airstrikes that killed 400 people, mostly civilians, ending two months of relative calm. On Sunday, Palestinian officials said the total death toll from nearly 18 months of conflict had passed 50,000. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Gaza medics issue malnutrition alert as total Israeli blockade enters fourth week
Gutting USAID is awful and illegal. Maybe the most terrible thing Trump / Musk have ever done.
www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-f...
"There is no statute that authorizes the Executive Branch to shut down USAID... Congress alone has the constitutional authority to... eliminate agencies it has created."
www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-f...
"There is no statute that authorizes the Executive Branch to shut down USAID... Congress alone has the constitutional authority to... eliminate agencies it has created."
Judge finds Elon Musk and DOGE's shutdown of USAID likely unconstitutional
U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled in favor of a group of more than two dozen unnamed former and current USAID employees and contractors.
www.cbsnews.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Gutting USAID is awful and illegal. Maybe the most terrible thing Trump / Musk have ever done.
www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-f...
"There is no statute that authorizes the Executive Branch to shut down USAID... Congress alone has the constitutional authority to... eliminate agencies it has created."
www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-f...
"There is no statute that authorizes the Executive Branch to shut down USAID... Congress alone has the constitutional authority to... eliminate agencies it has created."
It’s a real “looking sad, throwing batarang in the vicinity of the UN” time in global health right now
March 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
It’s a real “looking sad, throwing batarang in the vicinity of the UN” time in global health right now
Reposted by Habiba Banu 🔸
US aid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’
US aid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’
Projects to detect, treat and research new ways to fight TB among those disrupted by sudden funding freeze
Dangerous new forms of tuberculosis (TB) for which there is no treatment could emerge as a result of US aid cuts, a top doctor has warned.
Dr…
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
US aid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’
Reposted by Habiba Banu 🔸
Rubio's gutting of USAID is illegal and unconstitutional. There is no form of democracy anywhere of any kind that would allow the executive branch to unilaterally cancel budgets and programs passed by the legislative branch and signed into law. It's utter lawlessness.
March 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Rubio's gutting of USAID is illegal and unconstitutional. There is no form of democracy anywhere of any kind that would allow the executive branch to unilaterally cancel budgets and programs passed by the legislative branch and signed into law. It's utter lawlessness.
Marie Antoinette, 1792 colourised
March 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Marie Antoinette, 1792 colourised
Vote for Spiro (my TB charity!) in #Project4Awesome here
bit.ly/P4A-Spiro
Keen to see if John Green will see our video!
bit.ly/P4A-Spiro
Keen to see if John Green will see our video!
Project For Awesome 2025
bit.ly
February 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Vote for Spiro (my TB charity!) in #Project4Awesome here
bit.ly/P4A-Spiro
Keen to see if John Green will see our video!
bit.ly/P4A-Spiro
Keen to see if John Green will see our video!
So have we got all the lichen to subscribe yet?
January 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
So have we got all the lichen to subscribe yet?
Absolutely morally bankrupt behaviour that will directly lead to more people dying of preventable causes
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
Trump announces US withdrawal from the World Health Organization
The global health body stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in funding
www.politico.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Absolutely morally bankrupt behaviour that will directly lead to more people dying of preventable causes
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...