Tag: Notes from the Field

Redirecting support for Haitian orphanages

Redirecting support for Haitian orphanages

The devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010 dominated headlines around the world. Seeing the images of the destruction from her home in Whitehorse, then-18-year-old Morgan Wienberg was inspired to help. Wienberg travelled to Haiti and began volunteering in an orphanage, where she quickly learned the dark reality of the orphanage system. The […]

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Rural Zanzibar’s climate change lessons for the world

| October 16, 2021 | 0 Comments
Rural Zanzibar’s climate change lessons for the world

Earlier this month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report on climate change and UN Secretary General António Guterres called it a “code red for humanity.” What gives our team at Community Forests International hope is that we all know the causes of this crisis — and we also know the […]

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Ex-pats helping children in their native Uganda

| July 9, 2021 | 0 Comments
Ex-pats helping children in their native Uganda

Located in the Ugandan village of Kamengo, The Agnes Zabali Boys and Girls Club is dedicated to helping children living in poverty remain in school and have the opportunity to reach their full potential. The mission of The Agnes Zabali Boys and Girls Club (AZBGC), which partners with the Canada Africa Community Health Alliance, is to support orphans, […]

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School teacher leaves education legacy in Madagascar

| April 24, 2021 | 0 Comments
School teacher leaves education legacy in Madagascar

When Kathy Lucking was visiting a village in central Madagascar, it was the children she noticed the most. “They would be there in the morning, just sitting under the trees. Sometimes you could see flies crawling on them — they didn’t even bother to brush them off. At the end of the day, they’d still […]

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Saving the orangutans of Borneo

| January 20, 2021 | 0 Comments
Saving the orangutans of Borneo

A red-headed youngster takes a bite of a banana and slowly chews it while gazing off into the distance, her brown eyes thoughtful. Then, in the manner of kids everywhere, she seems to surge with energy and makes a sudden lunge for the woman sitting nearby, cartwheeling and running right into her lap. After a […]

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SchoolBOX: With education, anything is possible

| October 31, 2020 | 0 Comments
SchoolBOX: With education, anything is possible

Like many young children in Nicaragua, Robinson didn’t like going to school. He did not want to learn in a dirty and structurally unsound classroom, and often found it difficult to follow what the teacher was saying. When a group of international volunteers with the Canadian charity SchoolBOX first met Robinson in 2010, he was […]

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COVID-19 changes everything for War Child

| August 1, 2020 | 0 Comments
COVID-19 changes everything for War Child

The COVID-19 pandemic represents an existential threat to countries already responding to the consequences of war and conflict. In particular, displaced people and host communities all over the world are at heightened risk as the virus continues to spread. Uganda, for example, hosts more than 1.4 million refugees, making it the largest refugee-hosting country in […]

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Building health and educational sustainability

| April 2, 2020 | 0 Comments
Building health and educational sustainability

When it rains in the slums of Pucallpa, in central Peru, the streets of red earth become trenches of mud. The Ucayali River swells, flooding the homes on its banks. Many of these are only makeshift and often overcrowded. Roofs of taped garbage bags let rain seep into kitchens, soak beds and turn floors to […]

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Let’s stop the next Ebola epidemic before it starts

| January 2, 2020 | 0 Comments
Let’s stop the next Ebola epidemic before it starts

The Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is now the second largest in history. With more than 3,000 cases reported, the disease has killed upwards of 2,000 over the past year. New cases continue to emerge. These aren’t just statistics. The impact has been devastating at the community and family level. […]

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PINKK fosters female leaders in Senegal

| September 29, 2019 | 0 Comments
PINKK fosters female leaders in Senegal

At just 16 years old, Amy Mandiang’s dream is to become a doctor and her work as a volunteer “nutrition champion” in her community is a stepping stone on that path. Amy is a member of the Young Girl Leader Club in Kolda, Senegal, an initiative of Nutrition International’s Projet intégré de nutrition dans les […]

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