When I think about “improving health care”, I often think about making sure there are enough doctors and nurses, enough medicine, good hospitals, etc. Rarely …
Burundi Stories
PWRDF and CIDA Begin 5-year $10.8 million Health Care Program
PWRDF is pleased to announce a new joint program with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). PWRDF will contribute $2.7 million dollars over five years …
Health Clinics Saving Lives in Burundi
Supported by a PWRDF/CIDA-funded health sector program between 2008-2011, the Anglican Diocese of Bujumbura, a PWRDF partner, built health clinics in the communities of Bitare …
Half a Million People Receive Help through PWRDF/CIDA Joint Effort
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). …
Building Community, Saving Lives
Building Community, Saving Lives The Anglican Diocese of Gitega, a PWRDF partner, is located in central east Burundi near the border with Tanzania. The area faces …
We Will Repay You
“We will repay the loans,” was the promise made by Katrine and the other HIV+ people, many of them prostitutes, who joined a micro-credit program …
Hope and Safety for Young Women in Burundi
The diocese of Bujumbura of the Anglican Church of Burundi has been a PWRDF partner since 1992. PWRDF is currently supporting the program carried out …
The Primate’s Gift
On December 22, 2010, Jeannethe Lara, PWRDF’s Africa Development Program Coordinator, presented the Primate, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, with a wrapped gift. As the Primate unwrapped …
Camp… not just for kids anymore!
50th Anniversary Stories, Africa Stories, Burundi Stories, Canada Stories, Canadian Indigenous Stories, Featured, Indigenous Stories, Youth Stories
”Live the Change you want to see in the World” was the theme of Justice Camp 2010. 80 “campers” gathered at McMaster University to worship, …
Celebrate International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day, celebrated on March 8, is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. The …