PWRDF Indigenous Community Development Coordinator visits UNB
This story was originally posted on Diocese of Fredericton enews and is reposted here with permission. Ready to board his flight back to Toronto, Dr. José Zárate declared his week spent in Fredericton...
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Sharing bread in Tanzania
Day 9 – May 20 – By Suzanne Rumsey, Public Engagement Program Coordinator, PWRDF I am a committed tea drinker; strong, black tea with lots of milk and sugar usually starts and ends my day, as well as...
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Cold weather, warm hearts: PWRDF in the Yukon Diocese
Will Postma is the Executive Director of The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund. Will Postma (right) with Larry Robertson, Bishop of the Yukon Diocese On a recent trip to the Yukon I was...
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‘It’s what we do’: Cuban churches ideal development partners
Odette Naranja said it best. “We have so many programs in the church to reach out to the community, to let them know we are here, to let them know we have good things to offer. It’s what we do.”...
View ArticleAccompanying refugees, welcoming strangers
Suzanne Rumsey is the PWRDF Public Engagement Coordinator Thus says the Lord: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be...
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Our Advent message
Will Postma speaks at the PWRDF 60th Anniversary Celebration in September. Photo/Michael Hudson I look forward to Christmas. Twenty years ago we were living in Bangladesh. At Christmas time, we went...
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Burundian girls and boys both benefit from health classes
Dacia Irakoze Dacia Irakoze is an 18-year-old student at ECOFO Kigutu school in Burundi, where PWRDF partner Village Health Works teaches young people about Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights...
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Wash one another’s feet
It’s been almost a year now since I visited with the midwives in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico. Many of these women had at one time been supported in a project by PWRDF Kinal Antzetik, and as a...
View ArticleFrom a war zone to safety, for now
Tamás Kelemen is with Hungarian Interchurch Aid. Irina, 31, is a nurse, who with her two children lives with 90 other refugees in the Batiovo refugee shelter in Transcarpathia, near the...
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