GAiN Partners With Global Affairs Canada On $4.2 Million Project
We are partnering with Global Affairs Canada to reduce the mortality rate of women and children, improve access to clean water, provide training in healthy practices and gender sensitivity, and increase absorption and consumption of nutritious foods by mothers, pregnant women, newborns and children under the age of five in Benin and Togo. On Wednesday, […]
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‘Unprecedented’ 65 million people displaced by war and persecution in 2015 – UN
20 June 2016 – The number of people displaced from their homes due to conflict and persecution last year exceeded 60 million for the first time in United Nations history, a tally greater than the population of the United Kingdom, or of Canada, Australia and New Zealand combined, says a new report released on World […]
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Unique in His Sight
Having only a 7th standard education, poor and struggling to make ends meet, Sakshi’s parents felt caught in a web from which they couldn’t free themselves. Their little daughter had special needs: she was an albino and virtually blind. In rural India, many people have misinformed, cruel beliefs. Parents of children with special needs suffer […]
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Syrian peace talks in ‘great danger,’ UN envoy says
The United Nations envoy for Syria appealed to the U.S. and Russia to intervene to help revive Syrian peace talks that sputtered to a pause Wednesday, saying a recent spike in fighting has overshadowed the talks and put an increasingly feeble truce in “great danger.” Staffan de Mistura spoke to reporters early Thursday after briefing […]
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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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