Editorial: Why would Canada let the scoundrel stay?
So let’s get this straight. West Vancouver businesswoman Mumtaz Ladha invites an employee from her hair salon business in Tanzania to visit Canada on a visitor’s visa and allows her to stay at her...
View ArticleAfter Kilimanjaro: All downhill from here, but Alzheimer’s team forms lasting...
TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK, Tanzania — It was all downhill from there. Even exhilaration at reaching the roof of Africa couldn’t spare our intrepid 2013 Ascent for Alzheimer’s team the agony of the long...
View ArticleAt Kilimanjaro’s summit: A surprising winter wonderland
KILIMANJARO, Roof of Africa — We expected toil, sweat and grit. None of us expected a sudden snowstorm that blanketed our campsite and obliterated the trail to the summit of Africa’s highest and...
View ArticleDay 4 on Kilimanjaro: Making tracks for the summit
Tuesday, Oct. 1 TOWARD KIBO CAMP, Tanzania — Today we make tracks for the summit. First, we set off from Mawenzi Tarn, our campsite for the past two nights, on a six-hour trek to Kibo, from where at 11...
View ArticleDay 3 on Kilimanjaro: Oldest and youngest team members both experienced hikers
MAWENZI TARN, Tanzania — Day Three of our Ascent for Alzheimer’s dawned spectacularly as the sun painted Kilimanjaro’s twin peaks, Mawenzi and Kibo, glorious tones of red and orange. As our nine-member...
View ArticleTomorrow 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...
View ArticleTeam 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...
View ArticleLife 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleHOC 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...
View ArticleKwantlen 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...
View ArticleB.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...
View ArticleValley 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...
View ArticleTaking 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...
View ArticleSupporting 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...
View ArticleMaking 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleHip 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...
View ArticleWorking 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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