Kay Jordan has been doing hard labour in the East End of London to keep going some of her beloved efforts.

1225 [1205] [1144] Hrs GMT
London
Tuesday 11 january 2011.
By © Muhammad Haque.
Kay Jordan has been walking the streets of East London doing many things.
To end hardship for many people. One project she has been supporting has been a women’s training and English language effort called Heba.
Heba is an Arabic language word, denoting, amongst other things, the ‘usually’ unrecognised talents of women! Or the talents of womenkind!
This is typical Kay Jordan. Whoever gave her the support in devising the word for the Heba project may or may not have realised it but Kay was doing what Kay has been doing in everything she has been doing: aim to achieve more with less!
We shall meet some real characters that live upto Kay Jordan’s philosophy. However, before doing that, we take a brief look at how far kay Jordan has been travelling to keep Heba going.
She has had a home address in the Hampstead area for years. But trying to find Kay Jordan at home in that area would be hard. Even during weekends.
One of the strings that have pulled her heart literally all day has been Heba.
So concerned has she been about Heba that at one point she decided to stand at the entrance to 170 Brick Lane trying to raise funds by selling an assortment of clothes that had been made as part of a sewing class also run at Heba! For an entire cold Sunday, Kay Jordan stood on her feet hoping to collect some cash to help Heba!
Every time some “customer” approached the “stand” Kay’s face lit up with utter expectation...
It was a sight to behold especially in the knowledge that she had been working all week doing the drudgery of completing an entire new set of frustrating pleas [= “funding applications”!] to all manner of “charities” and semi-charities begging for funds for Heba! Looking at how totally demanding the task of fund raising has been to Kay Jordan and taking a brief trek down the Brick Lane bit that runs northwards from 170 [Brick Lane] to the junction with the Bethnal Green Road shows a telling condemnation of all those occupying the comnfuy chairs in the “decsion-making ropoms” in the “local” Tower Hamlets Council. How? How else but by the Rich MESS Centre! [Ooops! the “Rich Mix Centre”].
[To be continued]