Alberta Council for Global Cooperation
Suite 205, 10816A - 82 Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6E 2B3
Phone: (780) 988-0200
Fax: (780) 988-0211
Our Members
Action International Ministries (ACTION)
| ACTION is an evangelical, nondenominational missionary-sending agency that works in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America. They currently have over 225 missionaries in 22 countries. ACTION missionaries run programs that specialize in reaching the poor to provide spiritual and practical needs-based resources. Primary Contact Information 3015A 21 Street NE Calgary, AB T2E 7T1 Email: waynewhitbourne@actioncanada.org Tel: 403.204.1421 Website: http://www.actioninternational.org |
Alberta Council for Global Cooperation (ACGC)
Primary Contact Information Suite 205, 10816A - 82 AvenuernEdmonton, ABrnT6E 2B3 Email: director@acgc.ca Tel: (780) 988-0200 Fax: (780) 988-0211 Website: http://www.acgc.ca |
Alberta Public Interest Research Group (APIRG)
| The Alberta Public Interest Research Group (APIRG) is a student-run, student-funded, non-profit organization dedicated to research, education, advocacy, and action in the public interest. APIRG provides students with resources to be active citizens. They also facilitate opportunities for skill development through internships, educational events, public campaigns and partnerships with community organizations. Primary Contact Information 9111-112 Street NW HUB Mall, University of Alberta Edmonton AB T6G 2C5 Email: apirg@ualberta.ca Tel: 780.492.0614 Fax: 780.492.0615 Website: http://www.apirg.org/welcome/index.php |
Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA)
Primary Contact Information 11010 - 142 St. Edmonton, AB T5N 2R1 Email: francoise.ruban@ata.ab.ca Tel: 780-447-9421 Fax: 780-455-6481 Website: www.teachers.ab.ca |
Altamas for Peace and Development Association (APDA)
| Altamas for Peace and Development Association (APDA)is a non profit association that registered in Alberta, Canada in November of 2006. Its mission is to bring together tribes and communities in the Altamas Region, through mediation, peace building and development projects. Altamas in general is the area cover the border between Sudan and republic of south Sudan, in particularly south kordofan of Sudan.
Primary Contact Information 23, 401 Grier Ave NE Calgary, AB T2K 5S7 Email: msalih70@hotmail.com Tel: 403.274.5568 Tel (Alt): 404-837.4433 Website: http://www.altamas.ca |
Association of Canadian Peacemakers International (ACPMI)
Primary Contact Information 8107 - 44 Ave. Edmonton, AB T6K 0Z3 Email: d.hubert@acpmi.org Tel: 780.462.6234 Website: http://www.cpi-cpf.ca |
Awaso Canadian Academy Foundation (ACAF)
| Awaso’s mission is to enable the people to help themselves through providing education for the children of Awaso, Ghana. The main objectives for the project included:
Assist children to pass Ghana government exams so they can continue their education and get better paying jobs and feel better about themselves.
Build a facility where Father Mensah and others can elevate the children’s knowledge and spirituality to enable them to make a better life for themselves and their families. Primary Contact Information Box 6961 Drayton Valley, AB T7A 1S3 Email: skolseg@hotmail.com Tel: 780.621.3381 Tel (Alt): 780.542.5782 Fax: 780.542.5972 Website: http://www.awasoman.ca/ |
Bridges of Hope International Network of Development Agencies Inc.
Primary Contact Information PO Box 81 Stn Main Lethbridge, Alberta T1J 3Y3 Email: info@bridgesofhope.ca Tel: 403.380.3844 Website: http://www.bridgesofhope.ca |
Calgary Board of Education Global Learning Services
Primary Contact Information 2nd Floor, 1221 - 8th St SW Calgary, AB T2R 0L4 Email: cerowlandson@cbe.ab.ca Tel: 403-817-7720 Fax: 403-294-8299 Website: http://www.cbe.ab.ca/ |
Canada World Youth (CWY)
Primary Contact Information 2330 Notre-Dame St.West, 3rd floor Montreal, Quebec H3J 1N4 Email: vgomez@cwy-jcm.org Tel: 514.931.1614 Fax: 514.939.2621 Website: http://www.cwy-jcm.org |
Canadian Association for Participatory Development (CAPD)
Primary Contact Information 44 Scanlon Place NWrnCalgary, AB rnT3L 1V8 Email: capd@shaw.ca Tel: 403.202.0673 Website: http://www.capdcalgary.org |
Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP)
| The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace is the official international development organization of the Catholic Church in Canada and the Canadian member of Caritas International. It is a membership-based organization founded in 1967 by Canada’s bishops, laity and clergy to fight poverty in the countries of the South, and to promote greater international justice. During the past 40 years, Development and Peace has provided $500 million to finance 15,000 projects in 70 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America; $92 million of this amount has been allocated in emergency aid. Primary Contact Information 8421 – 101 Avenue Edmonton, AB T6A 0L1 Email: smichel@devp.org Tel: 780.424.1557 Tel (Alt): 780.995.9017 Fax: 780.465.3003 Website: http://www.devp.org |
Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC)
| CCIC is a coalition of Canadian voluntary sector organizations working globally to achieve
sustainable human development.
CCIC seeks to end global poverty and to promote social justice and human dignity for all. Primary Contact Information 450 Rideau Street, Suite 200 Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 5Z4 Email: jsanchez@ccic.ca Website: www.ccic.ca |
Canadian Department of Peace Initiative (CDPI)
| Given the escalation of violent conflict, the increased threat of nuclear annihilation and lawlessness across our world today, there has never been greater urgency or a better window of opportunity to promote this initiative in Canada. The department would develop a coordinated and coherent paradigm for a sustainable peace across all government departments. The Minister would advance an agenda for a new architecture of peace by supporting and establishing activities that promote a culture of peace and assertive non-violence in Canada and the world. Primary Contact Information 9442 144 St Edmonton, AB T5R 0R9 Email: cdpi@shaw.ca Tel: 780.454.7505 Website: http://www.cdpiedmonton.ca |
Canadian Humanitarian
| The mission of Canadian Humanitarian is to provide the basic necessities of life such as nutrition, shelter, health care, and education to disadvantaged children everywhere. They work toward this goal through community development and orphan rescue. Primary Contact Information Suite 1, 675 3rd Street SE Medicine Hat, AB T1A 0H4 Email: info@canadianhumanitarian.com Tel: 403.527.2741 Fax: 403.527.0427 Website: http://www.canadianhumanitarian.com |
Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan (CW4WAfghan)
Primary Contact Information P.O. Box 86016 Marda Loop Calgary, AB T2T 6B7 Email: info@cw4wafghan.ca Tel: 403.244.5625 Website: http://www.cw4wafghan.ca |
Caro - Canadians Reaching Out to the World’s Children Foundation
| This foundation is dedicated to partnering with international communities in need for the improvement of the lives of impoverished, disabled and abandoned children, their families and communities. Primary Contact Information 231 Ross Glen Road SE Medicine Hat AB T1B 3C5 Email: caro@carocanada.ca Tel: 403.529.6256 Website: http://www.carocanada.ca |
CAUSE Canada (Christian Aid for Un)
| Founded in 1984, CAUSE Canada is an International Relief and Development Organization which strives to empower communities and individuals in disadvantaged regions to overcome poverty and improve quality of life. Working in West Africa and Central America, the development priorities of CAUSE include: primary health care; water and sanitation; reforestation; gender-specific development initiatives (women’s projects); and micro-enterprise projects. Primary Contact Information P.O. Box 8100 Canmore, AB T1W 2T8 Email: pablocarrick@cause.ca Tel: 403.678.3332 Fax: 403.678.8869 Website: http://www.cause.ca |
CEIBA Association
| The CEIBA Association was founded in August of 2010 by a small group of Project HOPE alumni. For ten years Project HOPE operated within Grant MacEwan University, allowing over 100 students to fundraise for and participate in international development initiatives. In the summer of 2010, it was decided that Project HOPE would no longer be organized by the University, and Ceiba was born. Maintaining the connections and relationships that Project HOPE had built over the years, both locally and abroad, Ceiba now looks towards a new future in international development and youth activism. Primary Contact Information Suite 1, 10011 - 115 Street Edmonton, AB T5K 1S8 Email: info@ceibaassociation.com Tel: 780.448.1505 Fax: 780.448.1507 Website: http://www.ceibaassociation.com/ |
Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST)
Primary Contact Information 12, 2916 5th Avenue NE, Calgary, AB T2A 6K4 Email: pbagchi@cawst.org Tel: 403.243.3285 ext. 233 Fax: 403.243.6199 Website: http://www.cawst.org |
Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research (CGCER)
| The Center for Global Citizenship and Research is an initiative of the Department of Educational Policy Studies that seeks to link research, teaching and social action through creating collaborative partnerships that serve the public and the education community. The Center is active in developing a critical research culture of collaboration, creativity, and compassion by bringing together local and global researchers, higher education practitioners, in-service and pre-service teachers, and community educators to work towards social change and justice. Primary Contact Information 7-104 Education North Dept. of Ed Policy, UofA Edmonton, AB T6G 2G5 Email: cgcer@ualberta.ca Tel: 780.492.4879 Website: http://cgcer.wordpress.com |
Change for Children Association (CFCA)
| Change for Children promotes action for systemic change and sustainable development through solidarity and partnership, by nurturing community, and by maintaining an integral, vital and stable organization. CFCA’s mandate is to support the poor in their own process of organizing to achieve an increased, active role in promoting peace, democracy, human rights, and improved living conditions, accomplished through: growth in understanding of unfair structures and the growing popular resistance to those structures; learning from people with whom we partner to accompany them in the struggle for justice; and acting in development with a sense of urgency and commitment. Primary Contact Information 2nd Floor, 10808 – 124 Street Edmonton, AB T5M 0H3 Email: shelaine@changeforchildren.org Tel: 780.448.1505 Fax: 780.448.1507 Website: http://www.changeforchildren.org |
CHF
| CHF is a non-profit organization dedicated to enabling poor rural communities in developing countries to attain sustainable livelihoods. Their goal to deliver effective, sustainable and transformational development solutions is being realized via the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach. In over 50 years, CHF has implemented over 800 projects in more than 52 countries. Primary Contact Information 323 Chapel Street Ottawa ON K1N 7Z2 Email: globaled@chf.ca Tel: 613.237.0180 Fax: 613.237.5969 Website: http://www.chf-partners.ca |
Covenant International Ministry (CIM)
| Covenant International is a faith based multifaceted development organization. It was established to facilitate and inspire transformation in its fullest extent in the nation of Ethiopia and in due time in other countries at the community level. Primary Contact Information PO Box 744, Stn. Main Calgary AB T2P 2J3 Email: mengistu@shaw.ca Tel: 403.923.2987 Website: http://www.covenantint.org |
Cuso International
Primary Contact Information 44 Eccles Street, Suite 200 Ottawa, ON K1R 6S4 Email: westconnect@cuso-vso.org Tel: 604.566.3368 Website: http://www.cuso-vso.org |
Engineers Without Borders Canada (EWB-ISF)
Primary Contact Information Calgary: (preferred location for correspondence) Calgary Place, RPO Box 20364 Calgary, AB T2P 4J4 National Office: Suite 302, 312 Adelaide St. W Toronto, ON M5V 1R2rn Email: elizabethlogan@ewb.ca Tel: 403.619.5958 Website: http://ewb.ca |
Four Worlds Centre for Development Learning
Primary Contact Information Box 3 95 Cochrane, AB T4C 1A6 Email: anyone@fourworlds.ca Tel: 403.932.0882 Fax: 403.932.0883 Website: http://www.fourworlds.ca |
Ghost River Rediscovery (GRR)
| Drawing on the strengths of Indigenous culture, the wisdom of the Elders, with the philosophy of love and respect for the Earth and all peoples, Ghost River Rediscovery aims at empowering people of all ages and cultures to discover the natural world, the worlds between cultures and the worlds within themselves. Primary Contact Information Suite #164, 3359-27 Street NE Calgary, AB T1Y 5E4 Email: contact@ghostriverrediscovery.com Tel: 403.270.9351 Fax: 403.270.9371 Website: http://www.ghostriverrediscovery.com |
Global Centre for Outreach Foundation (GCOF)
| Global Centre For Outreach Foundation is a registered Canadian non-profit organization with the objective of alleviating human suffering through educational and awareness campaigns on poverty, illiteracy and diseases. Primary Contact Information 126 Kingsway GardenrnPO Box 34184rnEdmonton AB. T5G 3G4 Email: info@globalcentrefoundation.org Tel: +(1)-416-826-9329 Website: http://globalcentrefoundation.org |
Global Education Program, University of Alberta International (UAI)
| Driven by its vision to connect with the world, UAI works to support the creation of an internationally vibrant learning and research environment. UAI’s broad suite of services assists students, staff and community in virtually every aspect of international engagement at the U of A.
Primary Contact Information 3 - 600 Enterprise Square 10230 Jasper Avenue Edmonton, AB T5J 4P6 Email: Earl.Choldin@ualberta.ca Tel: 780.492.5962 Fax: 780.492.1488 Website: http://www.international.ualberta.ca/globaled/ |
Global Environmental and Outdoor Education Council (GEOEC)
| The Global Environmental and Outdoor Education Council (GEOEC)is one of 23 specialist Councils of the Alberta Teachers’ Association. Their mission is to promote quality professional development for teachers in the area of global, environmental, and outdoor education. Primary Contact Information 5720-113B Street Edmonton, AB T6E 0S5 Email: karendwhitehead@gmail.com Tel: 780.438.4818 Website: http://www.geoec.org |
Global Forum Foundation (GFF)
| Global Forum Foundation is a legally incorporated in Alberta in August 2010, as a charitable, International, non profit organization which seeks for the promotion & enhancement of social integration amongst marginalized youth and disadvantaged groups in the society aimed at poverty eradication for sustainable human development.
It is also seeks for the eradication of poverty, malnutrition and improving health care programs in poorest of poor in the society to be implemented ,as an overall strategies that are consistent with UN Millennium Dev Goals.
Primary Contact Information P.O BOX 85129, Albert Park, 3012- 17th Ave SE Calgary, AB T2A 7R7 Canada. Tel: 403-971-3786 Email: gff@globalforumfoundation.org Tel: 403-971-3786 Website: http://globalforumfoundation.org/ |
Helping Youth Through Educational Scholarships (HYTES)
| Helping Youth Through Educational Scholarships (HYTES) is a Canadian not-for-profit organization that has no affiliation with any government or religion. They raise funds in Canada to provide scholarships in developing nations. Their current focus is on paying for secondary tuition costs for community minded and financially challenged students in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Guatemala. Primary Contact Information 2024 - 34 Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2T 2C3 Email: haroldp@hytes.org Tel: 403.291.9812 Website: http://www.hytes.org |
HIV Edmonton
Primary Contact Information 9702 111 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada T5G 0B1 Email: laura.k@hivedmonton.com Tel: 780.488.5742 Fax: 780.488.3735 Website: http://www.hivedmonton.com/ |
Innovative Canadians for Change (ICChange)
| Innovative Canadians for Change is a Canadian NGO composed of experts and students from all across Canada, who are putting their diverse skills and talents together for the common goal of improving the quality of life and security of vulnerable populations. This organization will act as an umbrella for projects like the Kenya Ceramic Project and other exciting new efforts we are implementing worldwide, new technologies we are developing and new relationships we are fostering with other non-profits, universities, UN and governments. Primary Contact Information #1407 10011 116 street Edmonton, AB T5K 1V4 Email: dee333@gmail.com Tel: 780.289.8915 Website: www.icchange.ca |
John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights
| The John Humphrey Centre is dedicated to programming that fosters a sense of dignity, responsibility and justice. We have undertaken projects in partnership with organizations throughout Edmonton and Alberta that have worked to build communities where everyone belongs and lives in dignity. Primary Contact Information 2nd Floor, 10575 114 Street Edmonton, Alberta T5H 3J6 Email: info@jhcentre.org Tel: 780.453.2638 Website: www.jhcentre.org |
Keiskamma Canada Foundation (KCF)
| Keiskamma is a non-profit that is dedicated to supporting the work of the Keiskamma Trust in South Africa by raising awareness and funds for their health and art projects. They have a long-term commitment to building relationships in efforts to restore lives devastated by the AIDS pandemic. Primary Contact Information P.O. Box 34199, 126 Kingsway Mall Edmonton, Alberta T5G 3G4 Email: keiskammacanada@shaw.ca Tel: 780.479.5671 Website: http://www.keiskammacanada.com |
Kleos Microfinance Group (KleosMFG)
| The Kleos Microfinance Group is a Calgary based organization that focuses on third world development. The Group is aimed towards improving the living conditions for those people around the globe that are in the greatest need of economic assistance. This is contrary to the strategies of many mainstream foreign aid agencies, which provide aid through large multinational corporations rather than directly to those with the most need. Kleos operates with the opposing principle. Loans and credits are provided to those people who are not considered to be bankable, those who lack the required collateral, credit history, or formal income to be considered by major banks as reliable credit recipients.
The first project launched in the Gulu district of Uganda in March 2012, working in partnership with local community groups to provide micro loans to villagers across the region. Since, Kleos has expanded to more borrowers in more communities on a quarterly basis. Primary Contact Information 2900 Signal Hill Dr SW Calgary, AB T3H 2V1 Email: sarosh@kleosmfg.org Tel: 403-831-8752 Website: www.kleosmfg.org |
L’Institut Indo-Canadien Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
Primary Contact Information University of Calgary 1402 Education Tower 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Email: sici@ucalgary.ca Tel: 403-220-7467 Tel (Alt): 403-220-8805 Fax: 403-289-0100 Website: http://www.sici.org |
Lifeline Malawi Association
| Lifeline Malawi Association is an independent Canadian humanitarian medical relief development organization headquartered in Calgary. It is dedicated to providing medical aid without discrimination to the people of developing countries. It works to provide excellence and leadership in health care through community based health centres, outreach programs, partnerships and capacity building initiatives. Primary Contact Information 210, 1289 Highfield Cres SE Calgary, AB T2G 5M2 Email: admin@lifelinemalawi.com Tel: 403.214.7780 Fax: 403.214.7786 Website: http://www.lifelinemalawi.com |
Light Up The World (LUTW)
Primary Contact Information 224 13 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2R 0K2 Email: t.collins@lutw.org Tel: 403.266.5004 Fax: 403.266.5433 Website: http://www.lutw.org |
Maharashtra Seva Samiti Organization (MSSO)
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MSSO aims to promote sustainable development, economic as well as social, of those less fortunate in India, leading to independence from external assistance.
Primary Contact Information 508, 330 - 26 Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2S 2T3 Email: chandra.lad@gmail.com Tel: 403.282.2725 Website: http://www.mssoonline.org |
Marda Loop Justice Film Festival (MLJFF)
| The Marda Loop Justice Film Festival is a documentary film festival and a hub of global citizen engagement promoting understanding of justice issues and advocating for the well being of local and global neighbours. Its goals include fostering awareness and understanding of injustices and indignities suffered by many in our world and telling stories of hope in action, facilitating conversations around justice, views of the world, essential questions, and the greater common good. Through the festival there are opportunities to get involved in the issues raised, primarily through the activities of local advocacy groups and non-government international development organizations.The Festival collaborates with other justice film festivals, community institutions of learning, civil society, faith, media, government and business to establish projects that achieve shared goals of justice awareness and public engagement. Primary Contact Information 56 Glenview Dr. SW Calgary, Alberta T3E 4H5 Email: jennykrabbe@gmail.com Tel: 403.240.2975 Website: http://www.justicefilmfestival.ca |
Mennonite Central Committee Alberta (MCCA)
| The Mennonite Central Committee – Alberta is an NGO that works with national and international programs for relief, development, peace and education. Primary Contact Information 210 - 2946 - 32 Street NE Calgary, AB T1Y 6J7 Email: anneboehlig@mccab.org Tel: 403.275.6935 Fax: 403.275.3711 Website: http://alberta.mcc.org |
Micah Centre at The King’s University College
| The Micah Center at King’s University College advances student awareness of justice issues and creates opportunities for experiential learning opportunities around the world through internships. Primary Contact Information 9125 - 50th Street Edmonton, AB T6B 2H3 Email: roy.berkenbosch@kingsu.ca Tel: 780.465.3500 Ext.8070 Fax: 780.465.3534 Website: http://www.micahcentre.ca |
One Child’s Village
| One Child’s Village is a non-governmental, non-religious, not-for-profit Society of volunteers who are united in values and who seek to enhance the quality of life for all members of the global community, especially those who are poor, suffering or are otherwise disadvantaged. The emphasis in their work is placed on supporting orphans affected by or infected by HIV/AIDS. They are currently working with a partner in Kenya to support the needs of HIV/AIDS orphans in the Western Busia District. Primary Contact Information 7954 - 84th Avenue Edmonton, AB T6C 1C5 Email: contact@onechildsvillage.org Tel: 780.433.3342 Fax: 780.432.6774 Website: http://www.onechildsvillage.org |
One! International Poverty Relief (One! International)
Primary Contact Information 112 Garland Cr. Sherwood Park, AB T8A 2R2 Email: marilyns@one-international.com Tel: 780.467.6254 Website: www.one-international.com |
Operation Eyesight Universal
| Operation Eyesight Universal is an international development organization dedicated to eliminating avoidable blindness. Since 1963 they have brought sight-saving treatment to millions of people. Today Operation Eyesight is focused on India and the African countries of Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda and Zambia – places where blindness can be deadly, especially to those who are very young, old or poor.
Primary Contact Information 4 Parkdale Crescent NW Calgary, AB T2N 3T8 Email: cherryl@operationeyesight.ca Tel: 403.283.6323 Fax: 403.270.1899 Website: http://www.operationeyesight.ca |
Optometry Giving Sight
| Optometry Giving Sight is an initiative that specifically targets the prevention of blindness and impaired vision due to uncorrected refractive error – the need for eye glasses to see. At least 670 million people around the world are blind or vision impaired simply because they do not have access to an eye examination and a pair of glasses. Optometry Giving Sight funds the solution by supporting programs that offer not only eye exams and glasses in countries with little or no access to them, but that establish the infrastructure and human resources required for sustainable, quality vision care. 85% of every tax receiptable donation goes directly to primary eye care programs in the developing world. Optometry Giving Sight currently operates in Australia, the UK, USA, Canada, and Norway. Primary Contact Information 4 Parkdale Cresent NW Calgary, Alberta T2N 3T8 Email: jane.ebbern@givingsight.org Tel: 403.670.2619 Fax: 888.425.7296 Website: http://www.givingsight.org |
Oxfam Canada
| Oxfam Canada believes Canadians and other citizens of the world can end poverty and injustice by working together in solidarity to assert their basic human rights. Oxfam Canada supports 28 countries around the world to secure basic human rights, combining support to long-term development and humanitarian responses with research, advocacy and campaigning against the root causes of poverty and injustice. Their programs are located in the Americas, the Horn of Africa, Southern Africa, and South Asia. Primary Contact Information 416 21st Street East Saskatoon, Sask. S7K 0C2 Email: Danielle.paydli@oxfam.ca Tel: 306.242.4097 Website: http://www.oxfam.ca |
Project Shelter Wakadogo
| Project Shelter Wakadogo is trying to raise awareness for the plight of the children of northern Uganda. Since its creation it has grown and evolved into an internationally recognized charitable organization. Project Shelter Wakadogo means “for the little ones” in Swahili. Primary Contact Information 36, 9520-174 Street NW Edmonton, AB T5T 5Z3 Email: nilmilwilliamson@gmail.com Tel: 780.930.2101 Website: http://www.shelterwakadogo.org |
Rainbow for the Future
Primary Contact Information 10712 – 101 Street Westlock, AB T7P 1H7 Email: rftf@rainbowftf.org Tel: 780.349.5631 Website: http://www.rainbowftf.org |
Rainbow of Hope for Children (ROHFC)
| Rainbow of Hope for Children is an Alberta-based NGO working for human development in Brazil, Central America, the Philippines, and Africa. ROHFC works with their international partners in the areas of education, political awareness, health and wellness, life skills, women’s capacity building, land reform, agriculture, and marketing techniques. At home, they provide education services to schools, communities and church groups through experienced speakers and their publication, NEXUS. Primary Contact Information PO Box 2883 Wainwright, AB T9W 1S7 Email: rohfc@telus.net Tel: 780.842.6091 Fax: 780.842.6208 Website: http://www.rainbowofhopeforchildren.ca |
RESULTS Canada
| RESULTS CANADA is a national network of volunteers. They are committed to creating the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty in Canada and around the world, and to demonstrating that individuals do make a difference. Primary Contact Information 103 - 153 Chapel Street Ottawa, ON K1N 1H5 Email: darlene@results-resultats.ca Tel: 613.562.9240 Website: http://www.results-resultats.ca/ |
Sahakarini Inter-World Education and Development Association (Sahakarini)
| Sahakarini exists to promote, encourage and assist international aid and development and to assist, encourage and foster development education activity. Primary Contact Information PO Box 1685 Camrose, AB T4V 1X6 Email: sahakarini@gmail.com Tel: 780.672.8222 Fax: 780.672.5506 Website: http://www.sahakarini.org |
Samaritan’s Purse - Canada
| Samaritan’s Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970 Samaritan’s Purse has helped meet the needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God’s love through His Son, Jesus Christ. Primary Contact Information 20 Hopewell Way NE Calgary, AB T3J 5H5 Email: chowarth@samaritan.ca Tel: 403.250.6565 Fax: 403.250.6567 Website: http://www.samaritanspurse.ca |
Somali-Canadian Education & Rural Development Organization (SCERDO)
| SCERDO is committed to promote crucial education and development needs for Somalis at home and around the world. SCERDO is currently working to promote education for peace and sustainable development in primary schools in some parts of Northern Somalia. They have also launched a campaign to promote the importance of education and rural development for Somalia’s future development. Primary Contact Information 12052 Fort Road Edmonton, AB T5B 4H1 Email: scerdo1@yahoo.com Tel: 780.491.0233 Fax: 780.491.0228 Website: http://www.scerdo.org |
Sombrilla International Development Society (Sombrilla)
| Sombrilla is an Edmonton based NGO supporting development projects in South and Central America. Sombrilla works in partnership and solidarity with their partners in the South. They presently have projects in Peru and Guatemala with a focus on clean water, education and food security. Sombrilla is also partnering with local youth such as Scouts and high school students to create further awareness of global issues and to raise funds for projects. Primary Contact Information 11424 - 77 Ave.rnEdmonton, Alberta rnT6G 0L8 Email: sombrillahome@gmail.com Tel: 780.988.2976 Website: http://www.sombrilla.ca |
Stop TB Canada
| Primary Contact Information Email: anne.fanning@ualberta.ca |
The Canadian Moravian Mission Society
| The Canadian Moravian Mission Society was established in Alberta to promote the mission work of the Moravian Church and foster outreach and connection within the Moravian congregations. As part of the Worldwide Moravian Unity it works to support work in Central America, Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya, India, Nepal, Peru and Sierra Leone. Primary Contact Information 8008-161 Street NWrnEdmonton, Alberta T5R 2K6 Email: marionperrin1249@gmail.com Tel: 780.486.2283 Website: http://www.moravian.ca |
The Human Development Foundation (HDF Canada)
| The Human Development Foundation provides primary education, health and community development through social mobilization in remote rural areas of Pakistan. HDF believes in the motto of self help and practice it with full participation of communities they serve. Primary Contact Information 4208 Ramsey Road Edmonton, AB T6H 5R2 Email: hdfcanada@shaw.ca Tel: 780.430.6994 Fax: 780.470.5523 Website: http://www.hdfcanada.org |
The Leprosy Mission Canada (TLMC)
Primary Contact Information 90 Allstate Parkway Suite 200, Markham, ON L3R 6H3 Email: gfolts@leprosy.ca Tel: 905.886.2885 Tel (Alt): 1-888-537-7679 Fax: 905.886.2887 Website: http://www.leprosy.ca |
The Nile Valley Foundation Learning Centre (NVFLC)
| The NVFLC is committed to fostering the awareness of history as a tool for positive social change and an opportunity for dialogue on important historical issues in our community. Its goal is to use history as a tool to create racial and cultural harmony in a spirit of community and cooperation to help erase stereotypes. Primary Contact Information 10039-103 St. Unit 704 Edmonton, AB T5J 3G4 Email: patapaawe2000@gmail.com Tel: 780.340.2289 Website: www.nilevalleyfoundation.org |
The Tamaraneh Society for Community Development and Support (Tamaraneh)
| The Tamaraneh Society for Community Development and Support exists to support the basic human needs development of Ro-Mano Village in Sierra Leone, West Africa, which was ravaged by civil war and is currently in the position of having to rebuild. Their work is focused on the education of children and youth, clean water and the basic health needs of the community. Primary Contact Information PO Box 78170, RPO Callingwood Edmonton, AB T5T 6A1 Email: info@tamaraneh.org Tel: 780.993.1062 Website: http://www.tamaraneh.org |
Tools for Schools Africa Foundation (TFS-A Fdn.)
Primary Contact Information 4757-56 St. Red Deer, AB T4N 2K2 Email: marilynpottage@telus.net Tel: 403.340.3889 Website: http://www.tfs-africa.org |
Trickster Theatre
| Trickster Theatre has been working in Alberta schools for 30 years, providing a popular Residency Program to schools for over 20 years. Nearly 500 schools have held Trickster Residencies. These have covered all grade levels. Currently the focus is on Kids Go Global where student theatre performances are based on global issues. Kids Go Global aims to build connections between NGOs and schools.rnrn Primary Contact Information Suite 980rn105-150 Crowfoot Cres. NWrnCalgary, AB T3G 3T2 Email: programs@trickstertheatre.com Tel: 403.288.9393 Fax: 403.286.6966 Website: http://www.trickstertheatre.com |
True Vision Ghana (TVG)
| True Vision Ghana (TVG) is a Ghanian-run not-for-profit organization that works with disadvantaged groups in Northern Ghana on HIV/AIDS issues. They currently work with AIDS orphans in Northern Ghana through their Care and Aid Program, ensuring that the orphans are receiving basic needs such as food, medicine and education. True Vision Ghana also works with rural junior high schools to discuss sexual health issues and prevention as well as works with caregivers of orphans supported in the Care and Aid Program. Primary Contact Information 14735 Deer Run Drive SE rnCalgary, AB rnT2J 5Z1 Email: canada@truevisionghana.org Tel: 403.874.6588 Website: http://www.truevisionghana.org |
UEnd Foundation (UEnd: Poverty)
| UEnd Foundation empowers you to give a new kind of gift—one that helps eradicate extreme poverty and changes the way we think about giving through the redirection of a small portion of your gift spending. Primary Contact Information 4007-11 street SE Calgary, AB T2G 1H8 Email: kim.morrison@uend.org Tel: 1.866.629.0516 Fax: 403.252.7685 Website: http://www.uend.org |
Unisphere Global Resource Centre (UNISPHERE)
| Established in 1975 as one of the Global Learner Centres, the Unisphere Global Research Centre is a community-based charity dedicated to global issues such as poverty, famine, and human rights issues. Unisphere educates individuals about global issues as well as issues that affect them locally. Unisphere works in local partnership with many organiztions such as Amnesty International, KAIROS, World Food Day, along with many other organizations. Unisphere maintains a library of resources for the use of their members and educators. Primary Contact Information 101 - 6 Street SE Medicine Hat, AB T1A 1G7 Email: unispher@memlane.com Tel: 403.529.2656 Website: http://nonprofit.memlane.com/unisphere |
United Nations Association in Canada- Edmonton Branch
| The Edmonton Branch of UNAC is part of a nation-wide group of voluntary, non-partisan United Nations organizations concerned with global affairs. It is comprised of interested Canadians in the greater-Edmonton area who seek solutions to world problems through the effective use of the UN, its specialized agencies, and other multilateral institutions. This branch is committed to promoting awareness of critical issues such as the environment, human rights, disarmament, and development. Primary Contact Information c/o C. Mensah, Grant MacEwan University, 10700 104 Avenue Edmonton, AB T5J 4S2 Email: info@edmonton.unac.org Tel: 780.439.6292 Website: http://www.edmonton.unac.org |
Women’s Empowerment International Foundation (WEIF)
| WEIF’s mission is to alleviate poverty in Central and South Asia, particularly among women and children. Their programs focuses on four core social issues: education, infrastructure, economic development and health care. Primary Contact Information 132 Bainbridge Crescent Edmonton, AB T5T 6B4 Email: njamal@telusplanet.net Tel: 780.707.5431 Tel (Alt): 780.487.4318 Website: http://www.weif.org |
World Fit For Children - Alberta Chapter (WFFC- Alberta)
| World Fit For Children (WFFC) is a non-governmental, non-sectarian, international children’s organization governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. WFFC believes strongly that as a children’s organisation, the only way to help children is to ask them directly, as it is the children themselves who can best tell us what they need. Consisting of a group of volunteers, the Alberta Chapter advocates and organizes fundraising events for projects that take place in the developing world. Primary Contact Information 10835 - 84 Avenue Edmonton, AB T6E 2J1 Email: edmonton@worldfitforchildren.com Tel: 780.690.1492 Website: http://www.wffcalberta.com/ |
World University Service of Canada (WUSC)
| WUSC is a network of individuals and postsecondary institutions who believe that all peoples are entitled to the knowledge and skills necessary to contribute to a more equitable world. Their mission is to foster human development and global understanding through education and training. Primary Contact Information 1404 Scott Street Ottawa, ON K1Y 4M8 Email: lynnel@wusc.ca Tel: 613.761.3684 Website: http://www.wusc.ca |