Meet La Mucura
As South Americans we live in complex contexts that have led us to search for new paths of social change. During this search we have discovered…
Real Change
Liliet told us that she believes in ‘carpe diem’, in living life to the fullest. She explained that everything that she does, she does it to create ‘cambio real’, ‘real change’.
10 Cuban Moments
She thought it was crazy that an orange could travel all the way from Morocco and end up on her plate. Roberto just laughed and said, “No what’s crazy is that oranges can travel and we can’t.”
Appreciating Local Knowledge
During my work with a local NGO in Nicaragua I was asked to give a workshop about basic grains. The organization I am working with has been…
Meet Roydes
I see him as a Batman type; he is everywhere and manages different lives. Roydes spends about half of his time with his mom and great-grandmother and…
Culture Slap
MANNAGGIA…!!! Cuba is slapping me. Today I got lost. Stuck in a bus so crowded that by the end of the ride I was soaked and smelled…
My Cuban Welcome Hug
Less than a month ago, I took a night bus from Sucre to La Paz, Bolivia. The street is curvy and dangerous, the man who blessed the…
Human Impact
In 2010, I worked with Engineers Without Borders Canada on establishing an agriculture-as-a-business curriculum as a regular activity of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in the Kassena-Nankana East…
Youth Engagement & Social Media
Kristine Vodon, Industrial Designer Youth are increasingly spending a lot of time on online social media sites, which many say is leading to a generation of…
Intentions…
I have had the privilege over the years to work with the Coady International Institute in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. The Coady Institute is a place and…
NGO’s have to be flexible and creative
I was working with an NGO in Lagos, Nigeria, fundraising to build a school in Ilage-Bariga, an informal settlement located in the city. Many in the community…
Organizational Gratitude
If I could pick few qualities that I think any organization should be founded on, gratitude would be on the top of my list.
On short term “fly in, fly out” evaluations
Some years ago, I was asked to be the external evaluator on a project involving a small, rural community bordering the Rio Grande river. The community had…
Whether or not to fight tradition
At the beginning of my career, I was in a remote part of Papua New Guinea treating a villager alongside a traditional local practitioner. Even though the local leader practiced his own methods of healing while I followed my conventional methods, we were not threatened by each other.
Here is to building friendships, networks, community and NGO’s :D
When I was packing my bag to come out here to the Magnify conference I asked my self a lot of things… yes I know that sounds so…
Meeting With Myself
Magnify conference time! We were in a full immersion with ourselves during the first week of personal development course, then we dove into the New Orleans world…
Community Narratives
Somehow everything is different the third, fourth, fifth time around. Like reading Le Petit Prince for the 20th time, with every reread I capture a new idea…
Our exploratory visit to Cuba, in pictures!
After weeks of late-night Skype meetings with the project team, reading travel books and articles about Cuba, and jumping through lots of bureaucratic hoops, the Recrear project…
Approaching Community through Theater
After weeks of hearing about an enigmatic but well respected theater group tucked away in the mountains of Cuba, we finally fell upon Teatro de los Elementos (Theater of…
10 was our lucky number
By Nouha MaaninouKenitra, Morocco When RecrearApply finally kicked off in Morocco, all I did was worry. It was 11.30am and only five people were present. We had…