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...
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BRIDGES AND BASKETBALL
Emmanuel A Benedict
- Jan 13, 2020
- 2 min
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
- Nov 21, 2019
- 4 min
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
- Nov 6, 2019
- 3 min
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
- May 2, 2019
- 3 min
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
- Jan 28, 2019
- 2 min
"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
- Dec 19, 2018
- 2 min
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
- Sep 27, 2018
- 2 min
"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
- Jul 24, 2018
- 2 min
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
- Jul 13, 2018
- 3 min
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
- Jun 19, 2018
- 3 min
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
- Jun 4, 2018
- 3 min
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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