https://www.lucy-taylor.co.uk/about daily 0.75 2022-02-21 https://www.lucy-taylor.co.uk/contact daily 0.75 2020-03-30 https://www.lucy-taylor.co.uk/home daily 1.0 2022-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1582723963351-YZNRDL3TANGQVOAIH75O/Lucy+Taylor+Headshots_BeckyMursellPhotography-12.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1585242102360-LP5IHTJ0IZ5RVTU4933C/IMG_20200227_142106%2B%25281%2529.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1582727119816-ZW28TACIAN0KYNWFM7O1/bottle-kefir-958x700.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1585219613545-J7JYOAQBKOQDX8W2QR0E/RS42082_VSO_Malawi18_day2_0480-lpr.jpg Home https://www.lucy-taylor.co.uk/portfolio daily 0.75 2024-07-08 https://www.lucy-taylor.co.uk/portfolio/londonist-older-womens-cohousing monthly 0.5 2020-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1585581910702-JE6DSV1631DR4OVHA4J0/nov2011+%281%29.jpg Portfolio - Community that cares: The fight for older women's cohousing (Londonist) Above: The OWCH women, pictured in 2011. The core group have been fighting for their own mutually supportive cohousing development for 13 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1585582082697-FGRBAVS1Z7GEULQOVP1V/owch-women-waving.jpg Portfolio - Community that cares: The fight for older women's cohousing (Londonist) Above: Since this article was written, the OWCH group saw their vision finally become a reality. The women finally moved into New Ground Cohousing in 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1585582045833-I97YYYQLQMRA1SB20JA2/owch-members2010.jpg Portfolio - Community that cares: The fight for older women's cohousing (Londonist) Over 60% of women over the age of 70 live alone. Cohousing has been embraced for senior housing in countries like Denmark, where it offers an attractive combination of privacy and community. https://www.lucy-taylor.co.uk/portfolio/little-bird-kefir monthly 0.5 2020-03-30 https://www.lucy-taylor.co.uk/portfolio/vso-prisons-zimbabwe monthly 0.5 2020-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1585305705062-V1DERO3L0US0TOS9GJDF/RS43329_Zimbabwe_May_2018_Prison+Project_CRM_100-lpr.jpg Portfolio - The power of second chances (VSO) Above: Witness and Patmos run a garage together, where they have trained up three former inmates as apprentices https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1585305560112-G1Z7DEERUNUGS2DHX7PQ/RS43233_Zimbabwe_May_2018_Prison+Project_CRM_004-lpr.jpg Portfolio - The power of second chances (VSO) Above: Robert* is hopeful about using the skills he learned in the prison vocational training programme to get honest work once he is released https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1585304440693-BOEF6KNT67OSZWRPDZPT/RS43323_Zimbabwe_May_2018_Prison+Project_CRM_094-lpr.jpg Portfolio - The power of second chances (VSO) Above: A female prisoner with her baby. The reoffending rate is very high in Zimbabwe, a sign of underdeveloped rehabilition services and enduring stigma against ex-inmates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1585304576345-G05836AT7V5A9WPIFOIK/RS43281_Zimbabwe_May_2018_Prison+Project_CRM_052-lpr.jpg Portfolio - The power of second chances (VSO) Above: Catherine is now making a decent income from raising chickens, having been initially supported with some start-up capital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1585303803943-ADJAC86YZXMVVP4ZLFGT/RS43288_Zimbabwe_May_2018_Prison+Project_CRM_059-lpr.jpg Portfolio - The power of second chances (VSO) Above: Catherine pictured at home in 2016, reunited with her children. https://www.lucy-taylor.co.uk/portfolio/-lgbt-rwanda monthly 0.5 2020-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1582727948033-YCY9KUZAGF8TNGJ4POQD/sunset-4115997_1920.jpg Portfolio - LGBT rights in Rwanda (Accelerator) Will Rwanda become a beacon of LGBT hope in Africa? Image by David Mark via Pixabay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1583243234055-3I9IAY3280NYXC7HLGFJ/african-water-shots-1343793-1920x1440.jpg Portfolio - LGBT rights in Rwanda (Accelerator) The promised land? The sun glints over the majestic Lake Kivu, Rwanda, where the post-Genocide constitution guarantees equality for all citizens, and freedom from discrimination. Image: ©FreeImages/Jeremy Doorten https://www.lucy-taylor.co.uk/portfolio/vso-kin-5 monthly 0.5 2020-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1585654075072-C1RWWMIC1SMK7NSFW5OU/19060_kin+issue+5_AW_low+res+spreads+%281%29-14-page-001.jpg Portfolio - Kin Magazine Issue 5 (VSO) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1585652945021-ZETXI89DNAQ2UM6YHDOY/0001.jpg Portfolio - Kin Magazine Issue 5 (VSO) This beautiful newborn baby clutches the finger of a VSO midwife in Ethiopia on the front cover of the latest Kin magazine. I visited a hospital in the highlands of Tigray, with photographer Peter Caton, to collect this issue’s cover story, which takes you into the chaos, challenges and achievements faced by volunteers every day in a busy hospital where VSO has established a neonatal intensive care facility. Nurses and midwives never know what emergencies the next moment will bring, and use all their training and ingenuity in the fight to save mothers’ and babies’ lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1585653352515-UW7DD2MVGAJP1QG5M54W/19060_kin+issue+5_AW_low+res+spreads+%281%29-12-page-001.jpg Portfolio - Kin Magazine Issue 5 (VSO) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1585654537742-Z6R9H3NHIVFH1JB14HF4/0001.jpg Portfolio - Kin Magazine Issue 5 (VSO) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1585653820073-O63JLPS594K595ZMG381/19060_kin+issue+5_AW_low+res+spreads+%281%29-9-page-001.jpg Portfolio - Kin Magazine Issue 5 (VSO) https://www.lucy-taylor.co.uk/portfolio/vso-solar-malawi monthly 0.5 2020-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1585230760258-HJ1VJJ2RH2GH1EL2J50Y/image-asset.jpeg Portfolio - 'Solar Mamas' light the way (VSO) Above: For the majority of Malawians, who don’t have access to the national grid, sundown forces an end to economic activity and homework. The dark poses many dangers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1585220809028-IWFX5XHJPXBMD94BRNRI/RS42069_VSO_Malawi18_day2_745-lpr.jpg Portfolio - 'Solar Mamas' light the way (VSO) Above: Five of the semi-literate, older women trained as solar engineers on VSO’s project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1585220969414-71583978QJ3BPY8S7QMJ/RS42096_VSO_Malawi18_day1_0306-lpr.jpg Portfolio - 'Solar Mamas' light the way (VSO) Above: Emily Kamwendo, 42, right, continues processing the maize harvest after dark with her husband Stefano (right). At first he wasn’t supportive of her desire to study as a Solar Mama but has come to appreciate her even more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1585231065504-18GZECYT3DIKK43I2RWU/RS42075_VSO_Malawi18_day2_0700-lpr.jpg Portfolio - 'Solar Mamas' light the way (VSO) Above: Elinati Patison at work at her sewing machine. Since she got a solar electricity system installed by the Solar Mamas, she has much more time for her business and has seen her income more than double. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5672607604684a7c55ac13/1585230926941-WC9OYKYR3E58WBL2FU04/RS42088_VSO_Malawi18_day2_0336-lpr.jpg Portfolio - 'Solar Mamas' light the way (VSO) Above: Dines became a ‘Solar Mama’ despite never finishing school. She’s since built her own house with her extra income.