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VSO delivers development impact [clarification needed] through a blended volunteer model consisting of international, national, and community volunteers working together to develop the systems and conditions for positive social change. [2] In 2022–23, VSO worked in 35 countries in Africa and Asia. [3]
Cuso International, then Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO), was launched on June 6, 1961, by a group of Canadian university graduates. [5] Established as a national organization at a meeting at McGill University in Montréal, Cuso was to become the national non-denominational coordinating agency for recruiting Canadian volunteers for services overseas.
The charity runs domestic programs for young people in Canada, the US and the UK, and international development programs in Africa, Asia and Latin America. [2] In September 2017, the organization moved to a new headquarters in downtown Toronto, named "WE Global Learning Centre". [30]
Engineers Without Borders Canada (EWB; French: Ingénieurs sans frontières Canada, ISF) is a non-governmental organization devoted to international development. Founded in 2000 by George Roter and Parker Mitchell, engineering graduates from the University of Waterloo, it is a registered Canadian charity focused on finding solutions to extreme poverty, specifically in rural Africa.
The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children is an orphanage in Halifax, Nova Scotia that opened on June 6, 1921. [1] It was built, because at the time, white home care institutions would not accept black children in need. In the 1960s segregation was coming to an end, and black people were being integrated into white institutions. In the present ...
Campaigning organisation Orphanages - Not The Solution, based in Cambodia, estimates that three quarters of children in orphanages in the country are not orphans [57]. They claim that orphanage numbers have increased as a direct result of volunteer tourism [58], with orphanages training children to attract foreign donors for income [59].
The first community of White Sisters in Canada was established in Quebec City in October 1903, with three French and one Canadian sister. Their goal was to recruit young women as missionaries. Over the next century, 464 women from Canada and 93 from the United States joined the White Sisters. [8] Membership peaked in 1966, with 2,163 sisters ...
HCI denies its own involvement and describes Khadr as a volunteer from 1988 to 1995, working in Pakistan and Afghanistan on relief and development projects. In 1996, the Pakistani press accused HCI's Peshawar office of being made up of Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya members, who supported the overthrow of the secular Egyptian government in favour of ...