As some of you may know I had another child almost 5 months ago. And I was forced to sit back and spend a lot of time nursing and holding a little baby. I say forced, not because it isn’t lovely, but because I like to “do things.” I spent a lot of that…

I had an interesting talk with another entrepreneur this weekend. It centred around integrity in the work our organizations do. He said that sometimes you need to adapt your product to what the client wants. But what if in doing this I need to…

We just posted some great photos of CASA Capilano University students Tess and Jess’s time in Ibanda, Uganda. Tess and Jess were the first of the CASA team to visit Ibanda. Their goal this summer was to get to know the community…

I have spent the last 3 days in Ibanda, which is a town and the surrounding district in western Uganda. The people are Ankole (banyankole) which is a different culture than the people that live in Kampala or the Masaka region where I have visited previously.

I arrived in Uganda yesterday. It has been 3.5 years since I was last here. My “great discovery” on that trip was that the only difference between me and someone in rural Uganda was what I like to describe as “access to knowledge.”

The funny thing is I knew “access to knowledge” was different…

As an educator, I am often too quick to focus on the virtues of education. And forget that it has also been used for millennia to mould the minds of youth- for good and…

There is a successful charity here in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside that has won a number of awards for the work they do. I don’t know a lot about them. But I do know they provide a safe haven for women. They provide free makeovers,…

In case you haven’t noticed it is indeed that time of year again. It is time to make that list and check it twice. You know as much as I do that the list you make is mostly what you need to buy. But it is kind of fun too. It is an excuse to…

When I started designing my program I knew that situations and opportunities can turn on a dime. I want to teach youth about international community development, but I had seen time and time again the effect of broken promises and the damage it could…

I have been working in the international service learning arena for 7 years. For some this may not seem like a long time, but it has been a journey of discovery and change. I have a background in education – I teach about good…