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In Touch: Welfare Reform and Comic Relief's Desert Trek

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22/02/2011

Welfare Reform and Comic Relief's Desert Trek

BBC Radio 4 - In Touch, Welfare Reform and Comic Relief's Desert Trek

Changes to DLA and Peter White reports from a Sightsavers camp in Kenya.

Changes to Disability Living Allowance and Peter White and Cheryl Gabriel visit a Sightsavers camp in Kenya as part of their desert trek for Comic Relief.

More on the government's Welfare Reform Bill. We look at the changes to Disability Living Allowance and their impact on blind and partially sighted people. 
And Peter White and Cheryl Gabriel report from a Sightsavers camp in the Kaisut Desert in Kenya. They are trekking 100 km across the desert in searing 40 degree heat for this year's Comic Relief Campaign which aims to raise awareness of preventable eye diseases.

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