What’s stopping you from making a difference overseas this summer?
Written by Erika Pettigrew, LIFE Team participant Money, school, friends, or family? Work, or vacations? Doubt, or fear? Maybe you think you can have the most impact close to home – that serving others short term hurts more than it helps. Maybe you’re scared or you don’t feel ready. You might feel like it’s not […]
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Dinner is served with an informative experience
Food nourishes, satiates and brings people together. It did all that and more on April 9 and 10, when hobby chefs Tim Lee and Elaine Cheng hosted a dinner fundraiser in Vancouver, B.C., as part of DinnerPartyYVR and Social Bites, which had guests leaving with more than just full stomachs. Lee, the Associate Director of GAiN’s Water […]
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Soup Mix for Syrian Refugees
Fraser Valley Gleaners has been an integral partner of ours! Click here to see why.
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2016 DinnerPartyYVR – Elaine Cheng
Not many people can say that they have fed 5,000 people, for free, in the course of one-and-a-half hours. But Elaine Cheng can. The best (and worst) part? The meals were prepared using only food that would have otherwise ended up at the landfill. This year, as a part of DinnerPartyYVR, Elaine and her partner […]
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Caring for those in the community
Refugees are resettling in Canada with very little in hand, so when an opportunity arose to supply some much needed items to a local centre that aids refugees, we happily took it. On Friday February 5, 2016, we loaded up two trucks full of donated items and took four trips to the Middle Eastern Friendship Centre, a place where new settlers […]
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Puddle to Pump
Imagine if the only way you could access water was to dig holes in a swamp and wait all night for water to seep in? This was the reality of women in the village of Mwandila, Tanzania. Waiting to fill a bucket of water often required sleeping by the hole all night long so that they would have something to bring home […]
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Happy International Women’s Day
Moushie, as we lovingly call her, completed 60 years of stay and service with Mukti Mission. Having heard the call to go to India, Moushie left for India in 1955. Her first assignment was to learn Marathi. She was sent to language school in Mahableshwar and never stopped practicing and doing her home work. She would […]
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With 4 million Syrian children out of school, $1.4 billion sought by UN to save ‘lost generation’
2 February 2016 – With four million Syrian and host community children in need of education and no let-up in sight in the fighting tearing the country apart, the United Nations and its partners are seeking $1.4 billion at a major conference in London on Thursday to save the current youth generation. “The scale of […]
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In Word and Deed
In November 2015, our GAiN Water for Life Initiative Team visited Ethiopia and brought back good news from a poor, remote village in the dry region of Southern Ethiopia – Ame Serba. A newly-drilled deep-capped well had been finished and the team was there for the dedication. Almost the whole village of goat and cattle herders turned […]
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Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
Writen by Mukti’s caregiver – Shruti first came to Mukti Mission five years ago as a small 12 year-old girl with Down Syndrome. She comes from a kind family and has a mother, father, sister and brother. Her parents are farm laborers and when they would go to work, Shruti would be left alone at […]
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