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B.C. Building Bridges with Rwanda
School children from a Gashora, Rwanda school that Building Bridges with Rwanda supports.In The Province this weekend, we detailed the stories of inspiring B.C. residents — including Vancouver’s Lama...
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Kamloops Firefighers’ New Mission: Operation Africa
Children in Jambiani, Tanzania. Kamloops firefighters are used to rescues. But what can local firefighters do to rescue Africans from poverty at the other side of the world? More than it seems. The...
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See Them Outrun Poverty
Erin and Reuben race for See Them Run to support African charities. B.C. residents Erin van Wiltenburg and Reuben Jentink were trying to outrun poverty. It chased them all across Africa. The...
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Canada and Africa Partner on AIDS
A recipient of a CAP AIDS bike donation. Vancouver’s Chris Friesen remembers the precise moment he was shocked into action on the AIDS pandemic. Five years ago, a newspaper headline stopped him cold as...
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Drying Tears in Tanzania
Lorraine Paquette in Tanzania with Wipe Their Tears. As a woman fighting for her life in a battle with breast cancer, there is a lot North Vancouver’s Lorraine Paquette could cry about. But in spite of...
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Working Together in Tanzania
Jamie Kopp and a local volunteer building a library in Chamazi, Tanzania. While working with new immigrants and refugees at Surrey’s Umoja Operation Compassion family services association Fort Langley...
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Hip Hop Tunes Transform Tanzanian Youth
The youth of Wakali Wa Downtown. As an ethnographer, Vancouver resident Danya Fast is skilled at searching for patterns in cultures. So after the 27-year-old completed her master’s thesis on the health...
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A Mission Against Malaria
Nadine Qureshi distributing mosquito nets in Tanzania. Nadine Qureshi is on a mission against malaria. At first glance it seems like a strange passion for a student living in Victoria, where mosquitos...
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A New Way of Seeing with World Vision
Torres with Tanzanian boys on his World Vision trip. North Vancouver’s Jeffrey Torres gets a clear reminder every time he opens his fridge of his good fortune in living in a country where his parents...
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Making a Difference in Mwanza
Ken Martens and children in Mwanza, Tanzania. Before he travelled to Africa, Abbotsford’s Ken Martens had never thought of grandmothers as day labourers. But on a Mennonite mission trip to Tanzania...
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Supporting Schools in Tanzania
Richmond's Sabrina Meherally in Tanzania. Richmond’s Sabrina Meherally went to Tanzania as a volunteer teacher, but she returned having learned a valuable lesson herself. The 24-year-old Simon Fraser...
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Taking on a One Person Project in Tanzania
Brenda Lowe presenting a goat donated by One Person Project to a family in Kahama, Tanzania. When Summerland’s Brenda Lowe lost her mother to cancer in 2004, she held on to her last words, using them...
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Valley students spend summer vacation teaching and studying in Africa
University of the Fraser Valley students work with Tanzanian students during a summer study tour. Most students spent their summers relaxing and vacationing. But students at the University of the...
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B.C. Teachers take Education Beyond Borders in Africa
Shannon Howlett volunteers with North Vancouver teacher Noble Kelly’s Education Beyond Borders teacher training programs in Africa. When Vancouver teacher Shannon Howlett led a group of her students to...
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Kwantlen social justice students give back locally and globally
Kwantlen students and staff present Under The Same Sun founder Peter Ash with funds to help him protect Tanzanians with Albinism. Kwantlen students enrolled in a social justice class are earning more...
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HOC Revisited 2003: The pose remains same, but change abounds for cousins...
VANCOUVER — Oh how fast a decade passes. These are busy days for Carla Bradstock and Jon Conlin, each now in their late 20s, and each now busy with the kinds of careers and lives which are the stuff of...
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The 10 O’Clock: A rookie’s first TD, American men struggling with the...
Life used to be so much easier when I didn’t work out, when I didn’t see a trainer, when I slept in a bit and ate three bowls of cereal for breakfast and dragged my ass into the office and had four...
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Life comes full circle before Kilimanjaro ascent
MARANGU, Tanzania — A magical symphony from the dark outside my window stirs me from my first real sleep in several days, although the clashing cacophony of the hotel’s first kitchen shift soon wins...
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Team for Kilimanjaro ascent is coming together in Africa
MARANGU, Tanzania — The Devjis came back to Marangu last night, and now our 2013 Ascent for Alzheimer’s team begins to come together. Jane Devji and her sons, Salim and Aly, are the backbone of the...
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Tomorrow we begin our ascent of Kilimanjaro
MARANGU, Tanzania —The long wait is almost over. After months of training and mental preparation, the team’s all here and tomorrow the 2013 Ascent for Alzheimer’s volunteers set off on their seven-day...
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