Articles about: international development



Armed with needle and thread, Carrie-Jane Williams helps Ugandan girls stay in school.

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Three Quebec drama students help Peruvian youth find their own voices.
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Métis lawyer Brenda Gunn works with Mayan survivors of Guatemala's massacres.

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Young Canadian volunteers with Médicins Sans Frontières talk about braving some of the world's worst conflict zones to deliver help where it's desperately needed.

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The people of Cha'llapampa, Bolivia, want to encourage tourism. Four student volunteers want to help. But where do you start?

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He's founded Doctors Without Borders Canada, helped run two e-health companies and travel to 75 countries (and counting.) Dr. Richard Heinzl speaks with Verge about his perspective on living life adventurously.

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After decades of war, resignation has replaced hope for many young Afghans who have never seen peace.

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The challenges of beating HIV/AIDS in Africa are enormous—but the spirit of its young people may be even greater. In regions of Tanzania where discussion about AIDS only happens in whispers, art and drama are getting people talking.

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The 2004 tsunami that slammed South East Asia has all but disappeared from the headlines here, but in the year since a group of UBC students has been working quietly to help people in Aceh, Indonesia, rebuild their homes and lives.

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An exchange programme gives kids from Nairobi's slums and Maasai children a chance to teach each other about the different ways of life within their own country.

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