The Smiles Foundation
In All Things Considered this week (Sunday 15 July 8.31am, repeated Wednesday 19 July 6.32pm), Roy Jenkins talks to the gospel singer Nia, whose concerts in Eastern Europe in the 1990's led to her becoming a founder of The Smiles Foundation.
It supports families in Romania and is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Her most recent musical offering is the album Cappucino Girls containing songs about faith, life and love, inspired partly by women in the Bible.
In a series of events on her current tour, Nia gives her all female audiences a chance to hear her latest songs and to talk together about their own common experiences.
As Plaid Cymru steps into Government for the first time in its history, Roy speaks to the man who has given the party another significant first.
Mohammad Asghar is the Assembly's first member from an ethnic minority. He's also its first Muslim. The 62-year-old accountant from Peshawar in Pakistan had already become the first Muslim councillor in Wales, when he was elected in Newport, where he's lived for 38 years.
He talks about concerns in Wales' Muslim community about acts of terrorism being carried out in the name of Islam.
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