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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Katherine Thompson

"You're Very Brave!": The Problems of and Potential for Study-Abroad Programs

Often when telling westerners where I was moving for work, I would get variations of the same reaction, all of which involved surprise....

pambarmstrong

Bridges Must be Supported to be Safe

As of the 2016 census figure, Stats Canada confirms that 21.9% of Canadians are immigrants and this is expected to increase to over 30%...

Lisa Price

The Heart of Education Across Cultures

I have had the privilege and honour of seeing 3 education systems for a short 6 years. I graduated from Teacher’s College from the...

Hakeem Subair

Striking at The Heart of Teacher Shortage Crisis in Sub Saharan Africa

The Population Reference Bureau estimates that Sub Saharan Africa (SSA), the world's poorest region, will more than double in population,...

Nancy Grew

Bridges and Basketball

A bridge is a useful method of closing a gap. Basketball is a game played on a court with two nets and a ball. What do these two things...

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