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Stories

Are you a member of a diaspora community here in Metro Vancouver that is involved in economic, health, education or peace building development in the Global South?

If yes, please send us your story by filling out this form or send us a note to:
diasporas-info@sfu.ca and we will get back to you.

  Hungry for Education
After returning to my roots in Kenya I felt inspired and determined to find avenues that would offer Simon, and other children in his situation, a chance to go back to school and get an education.
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  To Raise a Child You Need a Whole World
My story started after the fall of the Taliban when my husband decided to go back to our homeland for the rebuilding of Afghanistan.
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  International development; a shared responsibility
Born in a rural farm family in Sri Lanka, Sumana Wijeratna became an urban planner after obtaining her first degree in geography and two post graduate diplomas in rural area planning and urban development planning.
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  What Have My Cocoa Beans Got to Do with Canada?
 I was barely five when my auntie "borrowed" me to live with her in the village of Teawiah in a remote part of the Eastern Region of Ghana. As a child growing up in the village, I planted a great deal of cocoa beans and seedlings.
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Chantal Kasongo I have created an orphanage project called Shiloh Place (Silo en Frencais) in my native home of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The project has been in my heart for many years and will be home to orphaned children cared for by widowed women.
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