Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - $1.6 million already committed to provide food to those caught in the crisis
“Every night I go to bed thinking about what I will feed my family in
the morning,” says a Syrian woman who fled with her family to a refugee
settlement in Sidon, south of Beirut, Lebanon.
Sadly, her story is all too common. 6.8 million people are in need
of immediate humanitarian assistance due to ongoing conflict in Syria.
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Friday, May 10, 2013 - By Sandra Dudych
Unlike Canadian moms, many mothers in Ethiopia are new to expanding their role beyond their homes. But thanks to women’s groups supported by Canadian Foodgrains Bank, many Ethiopian mothers have an opportunity to create savings accounts and earn income.
Through the support groups, members are encouraged to save some of their earnings through micro-finance programs that lend money to members so they can market home made goods and increase their family income.
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - A new children's activity for Mother's Day is available on the Education Resources
section of the website. It's a simple way to help kids celebrate
Mother's Day, by thinking about mothers around the world, and offering a
prayer for them.
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Monday, May 06, 2013 - During April Canadian Foodgrains Bank committed $4.2 million to 12
projects in 11 countries. These projects are briefly summarized below:
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Friday, May 03, 2013 - Balancing needs of poor people and Canada’s economic interests an ongoing conversation
By Stuart Clark
The recent decision to merge CIDA into the new Department of Foreign
Affairs, International Trade and Development isn’t the first time
Canada’s aid program has been profoundly changed. Five years ago in
April, another major change occurred when this government fully untied
Canadian food aid.
Then, as now, it was a matter of balancing competing interests. Back
then, it was balancing the needs of people who are hungry in the
developing world with the fortunes of Canadian farmers and other
commercial interests. Today the question is balancing Canadian
prosperity and security in general with the needs of the world’s poorest
and most vulnerable citizens.
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Friday, May 03, 2013 - Are our personal investments making things worse for hungry people in
the developing world? That’s the question asked by Stuart Clark in his
most recent post on the Foodgrains Bank's Seeds Blog.
Click here to read it.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - Legislation on the CIDA/DFAIT merger specifies poverty reduction as a responsibility of Minister for International Development
Canadian Foodgrains Bank supports the legislation which will guide
the amalgamation of Canadian International Development Agency and
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade into the new
Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development.
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Thursday, April 25, 2013 - Heritage Barn Museum “a walk back in time”
Spring has been
slow in coming this year, but that doesn’t mean George and Verna Burgin
haven’t been busy—they’ve been getting ready to host another season’s
worth of visitors at the Heritage Barn Museum.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - Two organizations look for ways to collaborate
Helping
farmers in the developing world stay on their land and increase
production and incomes—that’s the goal of the International Fund for
Agricultural Development (IFAD).
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Friday, April 19, 2013 - Now that the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is
becoming part of a newly-created Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade
and Development, Canadian Foodgrains Bank supporters are being invited
to send a letter to the Canadian Government to ask that the planned
legislation creating this new department makes it clear that the primary
objective of the aid program is to reduce poverty in developing
countries.
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