Backgrounder: Aceh
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- Written by: Tom Peacock
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
This province of Indonesia felt the impact of the 2004 tsunami more than anywhere else on the planet. The good news? It has helped to wage peace in this war-torn region.
Africa SOMA - Meeting of the Minds
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- Written by: Andrea Gourgy
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
An exchange programme gives kids from Nairobi's slums and Maasai children a chance to teach each other about the different ways of life within their own country.
Saving the World 101: How to Start Your Own NGO
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- Written by: Wendy Glauser
- Category: Work Abroad
Anyone with a hammer and a shovel can start an international non-governmental organization, but you'll need more than just good intentions to make it work.
Pumpin' the Volume: District Six Records
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- Written by: Andrea Gourgy
- Category: Why we travel
Former development studies student and District Six Records founder, Dave Guenette, has introduced North America to some of Africa's hottest musicians. It's not about charity: it's about music.
Picturing Progress in Zanzibar
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- Written by: Andrea Gourgy
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
A youth project on the island of Zanzibar has young women in the community taking pictures. But what they are taking away from the project is infinitely more valuable.
Be-witched in Ghana
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- Written by: Sam Mednick
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
For North Americans, witchcraft is the stuff of books and movies. But in Ghana, its existence is undisputed. The question is what to do about it.
Cooking up Clean Air with Clean Burning Stoves
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- Written by: Kim Fisher
- Category: Why we travel
A stove that can save lives and slow global warming? How the clean burning stove is doing just that.
A Just Vision for Peace
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- Written by: Andrea Gourgy
- Category: Why we travel
Victims of violence on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are taking peace into their own hands.
Postcards from Pakistan
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- Written by: Sean Guistini
- Category: Why we travel
How a young Canadian organized and funded his own journey to Pakistan where he volunteered in a refugee camp on the Afghan border.
Volunteer Abroad: How to Choose a Volunteer Programme
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- Written by: Jim Carson
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
When I think back on it, my first experience volunteering overseas kind of sucked. It's a long story, but the short version is that I showed up in Nepal thinking that I was going to save the world and found out that really I was on an adventure tour posing as a volunteer programme.
