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  • Half a Million People Receive Help through PWRDF/CIDA Joint Effort
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  • PWRDF Receives Government of Canada Funding for Maternal and Child Health Project in Bangladesh
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  • Hot Lunches for Haiti
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  • Running in his Grandmother's Footsteps
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Honouring Marisela

Yesterday, Jose and I had the honour of visiting the site of the assassination of Marisela Escobedo.  If you don’t know about this murder in …

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The Neutral Tree

Yesterday was a long but very good day with the staff of the Norte del Paso Human Rights Centre in Ciudad Juarez.  It finished with …

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Esperanza

10th Anniversary Mass for the Paso del Norte Human Rights Centre

Yesterday I flew from Toronto to El Paso, Texas with Jose Zarate, PWRDF’s Canadian Indigenous Communities and Latin America-Caribbean Development Program Coordinator (yes, Jose does …

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Midwives Improve Lives for Mothers and Children

Midwives in Bangladesh at a field demonstration

PWRDF and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) worked together to support maternal and child health and preventive health programs in Bangladesh as part of …

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Half a Million People Receive Help through PWRDF/CIDA Joint Effort

Burundi Farmers

Between August 2008 and December 2011, PWRDF programs in Bangladesh, Burundi, Mozambique, and Tanzania were funded in conjunction with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).  …

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Hope for the Future in Haiti

Renelia Demostene waters plants in her home garden in Bois Leger, Haiti.  Photo: Simon Chambers

David Korpela was Finn Church Aid’s country representative in Haiti from a week after the January 2010 earthquake until the end of November, 2011.  When …

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More than Just a School

St-Matthieu-School

The parish church of St. Matthieu in Haiti still stands, but with significant damage visible across the exterior of the building.  The church has been …

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