Larissa Pelham

Freelancer in Social Protection & humanitarian aid. Traversed NGOs, think tanks & multilaterals. Retweets not necessarily my view, ignorance probably is.

[Larissa Pelham @larissapelham]

@O2 I cannot DM on X. Funeral services & family couldn’t reach my mother while preparing her husband’s funeral. Emergency services couldn’t reach her and now she’s in hospital where we can’t reach her. This has continued since 3/26. A direct number pls to speak to someone senior.

[Larissa Pelham @larissapelham]

@AirbnbHelp Crooks! Airbnb add extortionate management fees for the tenant (30% of the booking), won’t give a refund for a cancellation over ten weeks in advance & when the property has been re-booked for the cancelled time, so airbnb & host make double the money. Appalling.

[Larissa Pelham @larissapelham]

@Airbnb_uk Crooks! Airbnb add extortionate management fees for the tenant (30% of the booking), won’t give a refund for a cancellation over ten weeks in advance & when the property has been re-booked for the cancelled time, so airbnb & host make double the money. Appalling.

[Larissa Pelham @larissapelham]

Tenets of social protection: timely, adequate, predictable, accountable? For British asylum seekers, uk govt fails again and again. Informal SP @EASEealing picks up the pieces where it can.

[Sara Nathan @SCNathan]

Preparing for our #Acton #asylumseeker drop-in tomorrow in disarray: our families have been told they are being dispersed before Monday. No-one knows where. They have kids in school, are expecting babies, have medical appointments. How can we help more? https://t.co/1IvvyRvE9q

[Larissa Pelham @larissapelham]

@virginmedia My TV might be hyped if we could actually get decent internet. It’s been weeks now and every day you tell us or a neighbour it will be fixed. It still isn’t.

[Larissa Pelham @larissapelham]

Oh the irony and brilliance of choosing Paddington for the queen’s jubilee cameo. This contributor to UK culture and economy might be on a flight to Rwanda from 14th june if Boris and Patel have anything to do with it. #RefugeesWelcome https://t.co/b4HXKfBWtk

[Larissa Pelham @larissapelham]

What steps in when UK govt social assistance to asylum seekers fails? Community informal social protection scales up emergency food transfers. 250 shopping baskets filled thanks to @felixprojectuk @CityHarvest @wliconline @Care4Calais & @wlondonwelcome & the community of Acton

[Larissa Pelham @larissapelham]

Keep speaking ⁦@will_perryy⁩ https://t.co/lIBhiQRS0Q

[Larissa Pelham @larissapelham]

Social protection should be the “backbone” of climate aid and a “new climate humanitarianism”. Yes indeed and if COP26 adopted this, the humanitarian system would be forced to reform - for the better.

[The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian]

Opinion | Given the enormity of the climate crisis, humanitarians must develop new forms of climate relief, transition support, and legal protections, says @HSlim_Oxford.
https://t.co/DEA49YzSl0

[Larissa Pelham @larissapelham]

Are humanitarian NGOs one step closer to collaboratively agreeing to engage with social protection in their responses? Perhaps so, according to new paper from the ccd! https://t.co/zG69Xj2TVC

[Larissa Pelham @larissapelham]

What a loss to TNH and my inbox! Too few journalists write with such lucidity (and knowledge) about the gnarled branches of humanitarian aid. I shall miss Parker’s much-needed reporting deeply. Hoping it will pop up elsewhere. https://t.co/ttHNHqmT1n (@newhumanitarian)

[Jan Egeland @NRC_Egeland]

Leaving Afghanistan with a deep sense of urgency. In weeks these mountains will be covered in snow. The people I met will starve and freeze unless aid money pledged is transferred now to our aid workers on the ground so that girls and boys, women and men can survive this winter.

[Larissa Pelham @larissapelham]

Kenya urban safety net maintained Hh incomes for 3mths in c19. Great but not enough. Needs sustaining. What next? #SocialProtectionKe

[Larissa Pelham @larissapelham]

#SocialProtectionKe oxfam is raising the social protection floor in kenya #socialprotection

[Larissa Pelham @larissapelham]

The gender disparities of c19 abound. This one is a stark reminder of that fact and is particularly close to home.

[Larissa Pelham @larissapelham]

Nicholas parsons in his early comedic unselfish roles “the Oxfam of comedy”

[Ugo Gentilini @Ugentilini]

New weekly update of global #socialprotection response is out📢

👉126 countries
👉505 measures
👉600M people supported (at least!)
👉Africa on the rise!

Enjoy new paper by @WBG_SPLabor @soc_protection & @UNICEFSocPolicy

https://t.co/wlWFFLReJv

#Cashtransfers #basicincome

[Larissa Pelham @larissapelham]

That’s true of the UK and low income countries too.

[The Poisonous Euros Atmosphere Fan @DawnHFoster]

This is excellent https://t.co/xj8DyTxOov