Where we work – so far!

To date we have partners in the Philippines, Canada, and Japan whose work extends to Africa, Europe, Asia and South America; we also work with schools and other organizations in North America. In addition, we have committed strategic alliances with groups working in the Middle East and the Pacific. We expect to eventually translate our materials into French and Spanish, and other languages as required.

Canada

Our partner in Canada, Ryan’s Well Foundation, has as its principal a young man who began his mission at age 6, when he learned that people in Africa had to walk miles for water. Ryan Hreljac and his family have committed themselves to raise awareness of water scarcity issues in Africa. Read more about Ryan’s Well. 

Japan
Our partner in Japan, People Tree/The Fair Trade Company, is a couple-based social enterprise that has been working for 14 years to establish a presence in 20 developing countries to market ecologically sensitive products, purchased under fair trade agreements, for marketing in Japan and Great Britain. Safia and James Minney have worked relentlessly to change mindsets among consumers and upgrade skills of producers in developing countries.

Philippines

Imagina – When Kim Given’s husband died in 1996, she packed up her three children and left Halifax to serve the needs of others. What began as a vague attempt at healing herself became a life commitment to do whatever was needed. Now she has four children, having since legally adopted a boy who was offered to her for sale as a baby, and she has accomplished major things by taking small steps and being unafraid to ask why things cannot be different.

Living Stones – Foundation of Hope – One night in 1997, Peter Bollant woke up in his adopted home in Davao City, Philippines to find an intruder. Peter fought back and ended up with a knife wound in his chest, leaving him terrified. He and his wife Gwen wondered whether they should return to North America after a 15-year investment in the Philippines, where they had been working with street children. They decided to recommit and founded an orphanage and home for street boys, to get to the problem of crime at its source.

Pog-ownow Foundation – The seed planted by Noel and Jean Livesey to begin a better life for thousands of Manobo tribespeople, living tenuous lives in the mountains of Mindanao, Philippines. Jean and Noel have given many gifts to the Manobo people, the primary among them being education and access to livelihood opportunities in cities.

Schools
We work through schools, so far only in North America (but anxious to expand throughout the Anglo world and beyond) to stimulate global awareness through our ‘shared wealth’ fundraising programs. In fact, we consider schools the central focus of our work. They are the fields of good soil, where seeds will grow into future commitments to global social change.