Volunteer Week:
There is More Good Than Bad in the World Until the past week or so, few people had even heard of Malawi. With the devastating floods in SE Africa, along with Mozambique, Malawi has been on the front page of…
Canada’s First People and Our New Young Canadians
I recently was part of a First Contact presentation at the Trudeau Centre of Peace, Conflict and Justice Studies at the Munk Centre at U of T. First Contact is a 3-part film series produced by APTN (Aboriginal Peoples TV…
UN Conference on Children 2002
This blog is taken from my book page 116: “One of the most fascinating experiences I had while being on the board of Street Kids was being a delegate to the UN Conference on Children in New York in 2002.…
Resilence
In my last blog, I mentioned Ronnie Yimsut, our partner in Cambodia and his resilience. This story is taken from my book Creating Opportunities: “Ronnie suddenly went silent and his face grew tight as our narrow little propeller-driven boat chugged…
Welcome to my blog!
Volunteering For A Rich Life: AGE IS NOT A DETERRENT For many years I have been contemplating writing a blog, Here, at long last is my first. In my blogs, I will mostly be sharing some of my views, thoughts…
Cambodia!
Monks who came for the opening of the Bakong Technical School in Cambodia.