Hello and welcome to another episode of Iway with Jamila Jamil, a podcast against Shame.

I hope you're well and I'm going to give you a heads up.

This is one of the more intense episodes I've had of this podcast in a while.

And that's because there's so much going on in the world right now.

And I get messages from all of you all of the time asking me what you can do, how you can be helpful, how you can feel empowered in all

of this, how you can donate, who you can raise money for. It's so hard to know because you never

know which organisations are dodgy, if the money's ever actually going to get to the people,

you're trying to help, you don't know where to start because there are so many organisations,

and so I wanted to bring you

one that I really trust, one that I'm an ambassador of, one where I know the founder personally

and have done from long before she started, Choose Love, which is the name of the organization

we're discussing. And they are able to fund hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of on the ground grassroots organizations doing the most extraordinary work.

And in this episode, we talk about all the crises that are happening, the ones that are in the news and the ones that aren't in the news, either anymore or they haven't made the news because people don't seem to care about certain countries that are suffering.

And we just have a very candid chat about it all. And it's not about politics. This is about human

beings. This shouldn't be political. People are not their governments. People are not their

leaders. It is insane that it is something we even have to take pause over as to whether

we agree with every single thing that the leaders of certain countries do, when we're seeing people, when we're seeing children, innocent babies suffering and starving on our watch all over the world.

And so this episode, while full of some harrowing statistics, is actually incredibly uplifting because it's about the strength

of the human spirit, it's about the amazing human beings in this world doing work that is so

deeply inspiring. It's about true optimism for humanity and it gives you a tangible way to

help and to know exactly where your money and support is going. I did an episode about

this organisation a few years ago where I was mostly telling the story of the founder so that

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