Interculture Canada seeks host families for 1989 90 year
Interculture Canada launches its host family recruitment for 1989 90 inviting area families to host or volunteer. About 200 students from up to 30 countries will study in Canada for a year aged 15 to 18. Families provide room board and incidental expenses while staff support them throughout the intercultural experience. For info call Barbara Alberts at (306) 922 4159 or toll free 1 800 361 1879.
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Montreal
Interculture Canada
Canada
AFS International
Barbara Alberts
White Cane Week Focuses on Blindness Access to Information
February 5 to 11 marks White Cane Week in Canada, part of National Education Week for blindness and visual impairment. The event, sponsored for over four decades by CNIB and CCB, aims to educate the public on blindness as a unique disability and to showcase the skills needed to cope with vision loss through CNIB's 52 offices and 92 CCB affiliates.
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Canada
Canadian Council of the Blind
CCB
National Institu
Geraldine Braak
CMIB
CNIB
World Vision 30 Hour Famine mobilizes Manitoba youth
Famine activities engage Grandview communities as students, led by Paul Robinson, pledge meals for hunger awareness. Participants diet for 30 hours and raise funds aiding Bangladesh and other nations. The top fundraiser wins a corporate-funded travel scholarship to South America. 17 year old David Anderson previously visited projects in Ghana and Senegal. Call 1-800-268-3980 to participate or donate.
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Winnipeg
World Vision
Paul Robinson
Manitoba
Ontario
Bangladesh
Australia
England
United States
South America
David Anderson
Ghana
Senegal
Traveler Bravely Traverses Quicksand Peril
A lone traveler describes choosing a path across untrodden lands then tiring in a perilous stretch of quicksand. Friends offered aid and the narrator noticed nail-prints in their hands as a sign of effort and danger, underscoring the perilous journey.
Roberts completes second book How Dear To My Heart
Carol Roberts has released her second book How Dear To My Heart detailing her farm childhood near Petersfield Manitoba. The personal memoir mixes low mood years with rose tinted memories focusing on family friends farm harvest school clubs wartime and the belief that life is a gift from God.
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Carol Roberts
Petersfield
Manitoba
God
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Gregory
Terri E. Deller
LAW Office
Princess Avenue
8Th & Princess
RZA Ops
Western Canada
Remco
Hamiota
Oak River
Eric Or
Judy Brown
Wes
Western
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