The Ripple Effect Recap
The Water for Life Initiative fall fundraisers this past month were a roaring success! Our team had a blast meeting with people from across Canada and getting the chance to share more about the waves of positive change we are seeing in the countries where we work. Our theme this year was “The Ripple Effect.” […]
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Anastasia’s Story
Anastasia, 75, is a housewife in Concepción, Paraguay who lives from monthly government pensions. She dreamed of saving money to purchase a large rustic table to both feed her family and provide meals for the low-income children in her community. Early this year, Anastasia heard about the opportunity to join a Savings Group in her […]
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URGENT! Help provide safe drinking water to those in Ukraine.
The ongoing war in Ukraine since February 2022 has caused massive civilian casualties and also destroyed civilian infrastructure, forcing people to flee their homes and seek safety, protection and assistance. Few people, especially elderly, are staying at the frontlines as long as possible so that they don’t lose their homes, despite the risk of fights […]
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A Concert for Water
On June 25th, the Cherry Trees Band played a show called a “Concert for Water in Africa” at Hughs Room Live in Toronto. All the proceeds of their show went towards supporting our Water for Life Initiative efforts in Benin, Togo and Tanzania. The venue, which has hosted some of Canada’s biggest musicians like Joni […]
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Lend the Hand You’ve Got
Meet Sergei Buchin! He is the parishioner of a Baptist church and lives with his wife Nadezhda in the remote village of Chasiv Yar, Ukraine. When the war began, Sergei and his wife made a decision, at the risk of their lives, to stay in Chasiv Yar to help others. Most of the people that […]
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Laawa Village Embraces Education
The village of Laawa in Benin wasn’t always the vibrant and stable community that it is today. Before Global Aid Network (GAiN) arrived in 2022 with a water well, villagers suffered from a variety of hardships caused by a lack of safe water and educational opportunities. A man from the village shared that the community […]
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Staying Behind to Help
Olexandr Petrovich Bunin is 68 years old and lives in the city of Chasiv Yar, Ukraine. Before he retired, he worked at the local factory as an engineer. When the Russian invasion began and most of the men left town, Olexandr went to work for the utility company again. Because of his organizational skills and […]
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Maria’s Story: You Are Never Alone
Maria Osipchuk is a 79-year-old resident of the village of Borzoa in the Chemihiv region. She spent her entire working life as a teacher at the local elementary school, but is now retired. Even though she poured her entire life into helping and guiding other people’s children, she has no family of her own. In […]
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From Thirsty to Thriving
Down a winding dirt path in the thick of leafy green bushes and trees lives a small community in Benin. Humble mud huts and wood fences dot the land as barefoot children wander around, holding hands with younger siblings and calling out to one another in Fon. This is the village of Vongnigodo. When GAiN […]
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Boxes of Hope
Through our local partner on the ground, GAiN is providing yellow boxes for displaced people in Ukraine. A single yellow box provides a week’s worth of food for a family, and one box is delivered each week until the family has received four yellow boxes. Our local partner also takes time during each weekly delivery […]
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