My Experience as a Food Bank Volunteer
Tiding people over in a time of need
After serving as receptionist at the Aldergrove Food Bank in Aldergrove, British Columbia for the past seven years, Pamela Hanon has seen all sorts of people walk through the door, anyone and everyone who has fallen on hard times.
The experience has taught her some valuable lessons about life, most notably...... >Read More
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Global Aid Network
If you don't have clean drinking water, your life is over. Until you have a source of that life-sustaining fluid, nothing else matters. That's why Marvin Kehler and a scattered team of aid workers, geologists, machinists and business people, partnering with Campus Crusade for Christ and many churches, are working hard to come up with innovative...... >Read More
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Feeding the Hungry - One Soup Bowl at a Time
Looking for a meaningful volunteer opportunity that will allow you to make new friends while earning a great return on your time? Then check out the Fraser Valley Gleaners Society (FVG), an Abbotsford-based, non-profit organization dedicated to sharing God’s compassion for the poor by addressing their need for food.
The logic behind FVG
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Giving Something Back to Haiti
Haiti stole Roger Medley’s heart long before he ever visited the tiny Caribbean country.
It all started in 1995 when Roger and his wife Shawna adopted a little boy, Nathan, from Haiti. His brother-in-law also adopted two Haitian children. Four years later, Roger’s brother-in-law was leading a mission trip to Haiti, sponsored by Northview Community...... >Read More
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Comparing Notes: Canada vs. US
Because of AIDS and general social breakdown, the number of grandparents raising grandchildren increased in the United States between 1980 and 1990 by a phenomenal 44 per cent – and continues to rise. Currently, in the US, 1.5 million children are being raised by grandparents.
Fewer teen pregnancies, fewer young mothers incarcerated and fewer...... >Read More
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Digging Deep for Christmas Presents
Wouldn’t you love to wake up on Christmas morning, find a huge, beautifully wrapped present with your name on it under the tree and open it up to discover that the brightly colored package contained none other than a bottle of clean, cool, fresh water?
Wait a second…
If that doesn’t sound like your Christmas fantasy come true, then you’re...... >Read More
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Loving the Unloved in Vietnam
God help you if you’re a person with disabilities in Vietnam, never... >more
Grandma Went to Taiwan
"Myriam Faust, are you out of your mind?" asked a well-meaning friend.... >more
What Do You Fear?
