Maternal Newborn and Child Health

Women at the heart and soul of PWRDF’s work

March 5, 2018 | By Janice Biehn

In honour of International Women’s Day, Thursday, March 8, PWRDF has assembled a collection of stories from the last year that celebrate the women we […]

Protecting the right to a cultural birth

March 2, 2018 | By Janice Biehn

Canada Stories, Canadian Indigenous Stories, Featured, Health, Indigenous Stories, Latin America Caribbean Stories, Maternal, Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Mexico Stories, Peru Stories, Reconciliation, Women Stories

Indigenous midwives from Canada, Peru and Mexico gather in Toronto at the International Congress of Midwives.

In the remote Inuit community of Puvirnituq, Quebec, women in their 37th week of pregnancy used to have to fly to either Montreal or Moose Factory […]

A bright future for Baby Shining

January 10, 2018 | By Janice Biehn

Africa Stories, Featured, Health, Maternal, Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Newborn and Child Health, Rwanda, Uncategorized, Women Stories

Ruth and her husband holding baby Shining. who is growing well and is pictured at eight months old.

In the June 2017 issue of Under the Sun, we told you about baby Shining, resuscitated at birth by Dr. Jocelyne Uwinkesha, a young Rwandan […]

WATCH: World of Gifts offers safe online shopping 24/7

October 24, 2017 | By Janice Biehn

Africa Stories, Asia Pacific Stories, Campaigns and Advocacy Stories, Canada Stories, Canadian Indigenous Stories, Food Security Stories, Global Stories, Health, Indigenous Stories, Latin America Caribbean Stories, Maternal, Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Newborn and Child Health, Public Engagement, PWRDF News Release, Refugees and Migrants Stories, Uncategorized, Women Stories

Not sure what to get that hard-to-buy-for person on your Christmas gift list? PWRDF hopes to make it easier with World of Gifts, the annual […]

PWRDF joins Foodgrains Bank Rohingya relief effort

October 17, 2017 | By Janice Biehn

Asia Pacific Stories, Bangladesh Stories, Burma Stories, Emergency Response Stories, Featured, Food Security Stories, Maternal, Maternal Newborn and Child Health, PWRDF News Release, Refugees and Migrants Stories, Uncategorized

PWRDF is contributing $20,000 from its Canadian Foodgrains Bank account to a food relief project in Bangladesh being managed by fellow Foodgrains Bank member World […]

PWRDF and Diocese of Masasi: a 20-year success story

June 13, 2017 | By Janice Biehn

Africa Stories, Featured, Food Security Stories, Health, Maternal, Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Microcredit, Newborn and Child Health, Tanzania Stories, Uncategorized

Farmer and community leader Joyce Mtauka.

In May, Anglican Journal staff writer André Forget travelled with a delegation of PWRDF volunteers to Tanzania, to see first-hand the impact of 20 years […]

Sharing bread in Tanzania

May 16, 2017 | By Suzanne Rumsey

Africa Stories, Canada Stories, Field Blog, Food Security Stories, Health, Maternal, Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Public Engagement, PWRDF Events, PWRDF News Release, Tanzania Stories, Uncategorized

Day 9 – May 20 – By Suzanne Rumsey, Public Engagement Program Coordinator, PWRDF I am a committed tea drinker; strong, black tea with lots of […]

VIDEO: HIV/AIDS monitoring tool gratefully received in Burundi

April 6, 2017 | By Janice Biehn

Africa Stories, Burundi Stories, Featured, Health, HIV/AIDS Stories, Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Uncategorized

Cyrill Nitereka, head lab technician at VHW Clinic in Kigutu

“Where there is health there is hope,” is the motto of PWRDF’s Burundi partner, Village Health Works. Until recently, doctors were unable to accurately monitor […]

PWRDF Indigenous Community Development Coordinator visits UNB

March 28, 2017 | By Gisele McKnight

Canada Stories, Canadian Indigenous Stories, Ecological Justice, Field Blog, Indigenous Stories, Maternal, Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Newborn and Child Health, Uncategorized, Water Stories, Women Stories

Dr. José Zárate and Bishop David Edwards chat during the World Water Day ceremony at St. Mary’s First Nation in Fredericton.

This story was originally posted on Diocese of Fredericton enews and is reposted here with permission. Ready to board his flight back to Toronto, Dr. […]

International Women’s Day March 8

March 8, 2017 | By Janice Biehn

Maternal, Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Microcredit, Newborn and Child Health, Refugees and Migrants Stories, Uncategorized, Water Stories, Women Stories, Youth Stories

PWRDF is committed to gender equality, #5 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Check out some of our success stories of women making a […]