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Fair Trade

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Fair trade — as opposed to Free Trade — puts farmers, workers, communities and the health of the planet ahead of national trade balances and corporate profits. Listen to the voices of fair traders gathered in Winnipeg for their national convention.

23 Jul
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Children Children & Youth Conflict Education Europe Fast Forward Peace & Conflict Podcasts youth

Peace Through Basketball

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A year-round program of bi-communal basketball games helps Greek and Turkish Cypriot teens shed stereotypes and make friends while modeling coexistence on a divided island.

21 Feb
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Africa Arts & Culture Economic development Education Podcasts Tourism & Travel youth

Dhow Countries Music Academy

Twenty-four hours in Zanzibar. What’s a person to do? Following up on a contact, I go visit the Dhow Countries Music Academy … and am amazed.

21 Jan
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Activism & Solidarity Africa Agriculture Consumerism Economic development Education Global Dev Podcasts Twelve Canadians Voices Women & Girls youth

Dinah & Zack

Who coined the phrase “Think globally, act locally” is a matter of dispute. Dinah Ceplis and Zack Gross certainly exemplify the philosophy in action.

17 Jan
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Prairie School for Union Women

Saskatchewan’s Prairie School for Union Women has been building personal and leadership skills, and solidarity among women workers, for sixteen years.

29 Nov
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Economic development Education Fast Forward First Nations Podcasts Twelve Canadians Urban

The Power of Social Enterprise

Winnipeg’s Social Enterprise Center builds community in the north end of Prairie Canada’s capital — from the inside out.

26 Oct
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Africa Children Children & Youth Economic development Education Human habitat youth

A Tanzanian Schoolhouse

Tanzania was applauded for attaining its UN Millennium Development Goal on universal education four years in advance of the 2015 deadline it had set for itself. But in this rural east African nation, enormous challenges remain.

16 Jun
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Al-Quds

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Universities are engines of higher learning – also of national development and prosperity. No one knows this better than Israel – home to some of the world’s most prestigious universities. Palestinian schools struggle under Israeli occupation.

29 Mar
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Arts & Culture Asia Communications Education Media Podcasts Technology youth

Digital Literacy in Cambodia

For those who speak and write non-Latin languages, being able to type on a ‘standard’ computer keyboard is a major barrier to digital democracy. In Cambodia, this problem has been solved and communities are going wireless.

31 Dec
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Africa Conflict Education Human & Civil Rights Peace & Conflict Podcasts

Whispers in the Hall

Little Rwanda will soon commemorate the twenty-second anniversary of the 1994 genocide. Between April 6 and early July 1994, an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and some tens of thousands of Hutus perished.

27 May
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Africa Education youth

Pity the Poor Student

Recent cuts in government support for students is causing enormous dismay on Rwandan university campuses, and exposed cracks in the Kagame government’s post-genocide reconciliation efforts.

20 Apr
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Africa Economic development Education Podcasts youth

Rwandan Teachers

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Amid growing concerns about how to survive on a paltry income, Rwandan teachers turn to a traditional practice, whereby groups of people communally contribute money to help one another out.

18 Apr
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Afghan Women

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Young girls run and shout here at the Afghans4Tomorrow girl’s school, much as they do everywhere in the world. But the sight is unusual in Afghanistan because these girls wear school uniforms, not all-encompassing burkas.

14 Oct
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Children Conflict Education Health Human habitat Human settlements Latin America Urban youth

Central American Gangs

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Young gang violence is endemic in the Central American nations of Guatemala and El Salvador, and its tentacles have spread north. Some would say the process has worked in reverse fashion.

29 Sep
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Activism & Solidarity Africa Arts & Culture Children Conflict Education youth

Teachers For Mapaki

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In the West African village of Mapaki, education is being used to promote peace, after years of civil war.

24 Jul
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Suchitoto-Stratford Theatre Project

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In the 1950s, journalist Tom Patterson became convinced that Shakespeare could help revitalize his hometown of Stratford, Ontario. Today, Suchitoto, El Salvador hopes to do the same, in partnership with Stratford.

15 Jul
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Radio FADECO

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It’s hard to imagine a development tool more powerful than a radio station. For the past few years, a little station called FADECO has been promoting rural development in the community of Karagwe, in northwest Tanzania.

5 Jul
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Fringe Education

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Poor farmers have always set off to the nearest big city in search of income. Opportunities are often a dream, and obstacles abound. Many forsake their most valuable asset – their own traditions.

18 Jun
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Buduburam

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What happens when a refugee camp turns into a permanent community? Buduburam — home to hundreds of Liberians — is one such human settlement in the Ghanean capital of Accra.

17 Jun
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Activism & Solidarity Disability Rights Education Health Human & Civil Rights Human habitat Human settlements Latin America Urban Women & Girls youth

Bolivians With Disabilities

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The development of rights for disabled people in industrialized countries is an encouraging trend – a sign of inclusiveness in this age of division and disparity. Imagine what it’s like to be a disabled person in a country like … Bolivia.

13 Jun
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