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Neema's Story

Shaking my head, I walk into the empty room and crumble against the closing door, tears welling. A few days earlier, I was stepping off t...

Sierra Saikaley

Teaching Future Marketers How to Use their Marketing Skills for Good

On St Lawrence College’s Kingston Campus, the Advertising and Marketing Communications (AMC) program took what they’d learned to the real...

Emmanuel A Benedict

Library books for Ghanaian students

Over 750 million of the world’s population cannot read and write. Out of that figure, 250 million have stepped into the classroom but are...

Deborah Kimmett

She Gave So Little and Got So Much (Adventures from the Soup Kitchen)

I was having one of those days. One of those days you have as a self-employed person where you wonder if business will pick up. Those day...

Emmanuel A Benedict

The Neglected Challenges of Rural Education in Ghana

Education has always proven to be a very important tool for development in any country. In Ghana, however, although the government has ta...

Daniel Oduor Otieno

Success in international assistance: Working with local leaders

My name is Daniel Oduor Otieno. I work as a field representative for the CanAssist African Relief Trust, a Canadian Kingston-based chari...

Dr. Luc Malemo

Bridges: the vaccine for the stops and starts

The following article is written by Dr. Luc Malemo. After graduating as a family doctor at Limpopo University in Pretoria and in general...

Robert Kiley

Change the city, change the world: leading locally on climate change

Climate change. Climate strikes. Climate emergency. Climate action. Climate reality. It seems the world is filled with stories about the...

Kristin Mullin

You have the power to change business for the better

The new model for the business world is impact-based. The lines between “non-profit” and “for-profit” are blurring and market demand has ...

Mike Schreiner

Reflections on Changing a Polluted Political Culture

Politics must be less partisan. That might sound funny coming from the leader of a political party, but it’s true. Solving the big issues...

Dan Hendry

Changing a Culture: A Kingston Success Story

Change the culture. How often do we hear that? Doesn’t that seem to be the answer to every people problem out there? Just change the cult...

Tracy Schmitt

Unstoppable Tracy Schmitt in Nepal

I recall trekking in Nepal in 1991 like it was yesterday. The vivid memory comes after crossing the Modi Kola River on a dangerous suspen...

Jeffrey Montgomery

Celebrating Family, Art and Connections in East Africa

My Name is Jeff Montgomery. I feel like most people in general would know me as Heather Haynes’ husband…I often refer to myself in that w...

Jacynthe Aubut

"Out of the Ordinary Club"

There are a lot of different clubs in schools but let me explain our 'out of the ordinary club': the Humanitarian club. They are school c...

Esther Chaula

Women's Health on Ukerewe Island

Esther Chaula is the first female to be appointed Executive District Director of Ukerewe Island. She is passionate about the health of wo...

Dr. Antonia Msafiri Makene

A Vision for Tanzanian Health Care

Antonia Msafiri Makene is a Tanzanian medical student. She and her husband, Emmanuel, spoke with our founder Cathy Cleary about their vis...

Katie Huang

Teaching Computers without Computers in Zambia

International Vision Organization (IVO) is a Canadian not-for-profit providing community aid and eye health care to developing areas. In ...

Katie Huang

Sight to the Blind: IVO in Zambia

International Vision Organization (IVO) is a Canadian not-for-profit organization providing community aid and eye health care to developi...

John Geddes

CanAssist Supports African Entrepreneurial Initiatives

Africans are natural entrepreneurs. They have to be. When you live in a place where employment is uncertain and unpredictable you need to...

Joanne Paterson

The Time I got Lost on a Bus in Kazakhstan

There I was, riding the circuit of the city without the slightest idea of how to find my destination, with hardly any street smarts in my...

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