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World AIDS Day Breakfast
Related to this project: Creating Local Connections Canada/Liaisons locales Canada

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World AIDS Day Breakfast

This morning I attended the World AIDS Day breakfast, held by Oxfam in support of two organizations: Voices of Positive Women, Blueprint for Action on Women and Girls in HIV/AIDS.

Toronto Mayor David Miller, Co-Founder of Blueprint Louise Binder (a trained lawyer living with HIV/AIDS) and Vancouverite author Wayson Choy spoke at the event. It was lovely to see so many people in Toronto who care about AIDS as a global pandemic, and there is a lot of activism which serves as motivation going on here.

I realized that the city cares, but there still is a lot of awareness and activist work to be done in other places which are not exposed to the wonderful resources we have here. On a sidenote, I am also the proud new bearer of a black and red beaded ribbon made by women in Zambia!

November 30, 2007 | 10:37 AM Comments  0 comments

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Partner Collaboration
Related to this project: Creating Local Connections Canada/Liaisons locales Canada


OCIC - International Development Week Steering Committee

It proved to be a fruitful meeting and collaboration among a variety of non for profit organizations in Toronto. Canadian Red Cross, World Literacy Canada, CLC TIG, Oxfam, were among some of the organizations present. I find the Ontario Council for International Cooperation is useful because it recognizes the need for NGOs with similar values and missions to work together. We are more effective in larger numbers, right?

So we planned a postcard project which involves sending out kits to 10 schools in Ontario. This arts based initiative aims to educate youth on the Millenium Development Goals, and OCIC wants display the postcards on TIG's global online gallery, as well as promote it in a French school through one of our CLC coordinators (either Timmons or Montreal). In addition, the meeting was a great opportunity to network with other organizations and share ideas.

November 21, 2007 | 12:01 PM Comments  0 comments

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Dear Karen ..
Related to this project: Creating Local Connections Canada/Liaisons locales Canada


Dear Karen,

In response to your blog on 'Operation Mentorship', I wanted to share a few of my thoughts with you. I believe a mentor can be both informal and formal. If we think about new social movements (women's movement, gay rights movement, etc.), a lot of what has become formal education stemmed from informal education. The learner's experience, the informal process of soaking up information through one's life stories, propels the roots of action. An individual experiences racism, sexism, prejudice, injustice - and through those informal experiences is the basis of popular education. Mothers, for example, can be popular educators .. and they are quite "informal" mentors aren't they? However I do feel there is a need for formal mentors - we need to process and organize our thoughts and actions, and manipulate them in ways which can be understood by all parties including those in structured power.
There is no clear answer, only room for discussion and critical analysis - and I think besides my long ramble, that we need to keep in mind the importance of constant questioning when it comes to improving our system.

November 21, 2007 | 11:55 AM Comments  0 comments

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