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Blog Articles

  Eyes Healed by Ayuverdic Treatment
 Author: Ashok Puri | Posted: March 22, 2011
Ayurvedic eye treatment helped Ashok Puri improve his eyesight after Western doctors declared his condition 'untreatable.' Read more

  
  Diasporas and Global Health
Author: Douglas Olthof | Posted: March 15, 2011
Professor James Busumtwi-sam outlines key issues in global health with reference to the UN's Millennium Development Goals. Read more

  
 
Climate refugees: Diaspora response to a human health crisis
 Author: Douglas Olthof | Posted: March 13, 2011
Over the next 30 years, some 30-40 million Bangladeshis will be displaced due to climate change. Vancouver's Bangladeshi community advocates for an immediate global response. Read more

  

  Panos Network provides a new lens for international development
 Author: Douglas Olthof | Posted: March 13, 2011
It’s past time to reject the notion of an economically prosperous, technically advanced “North” and a technologically backward, politically naïve and ill-informed “South”. Read more

  
 
A Vancouver doctor brings a cure for clubfoot to children in Uganda
 Author: Douglas Olthof | Posted: March 8, 2011
Ugandan paramedicals are trained by the Uganda Sustainable Clubfoot Care project to apply an economically and socially feasible treatment to a crippling birth defect. Read more

  
  Global health through the diaspora lens
 Author: Douglas Olthof | Posted: March 7, 2011
Regional maps depicting some of the places Vancouver diasporas identify with. Read more

  
  Vancouver's diaspora shares development stories
 Author: Douglas Olthof | Posted: March 1, 2011
On January 19, 2011, members of Vancouver's diaspora and development communities came together to exchange stories and ideas. Read more

  
  The Power of $100
 Author: Douglas Olthof | Posted: January 21, 2011
"My goal is to help all the kids who cannot afford school uniforms to be dressed up and go to school," writes Miriam Egwalu in the story that follows. Read more

  
  My Canadian experience inspires my development work in Sri Lanka
 Author: Sumana Wijeratna| Posted: January 19, 2011
A Sri Lankan immigrant to Canada writes about the experience of promoting development in her country of origin. Read more

  
  What is Poverty?
 Author: John Harriss| Posted: January 18, 2011
‘Being poor’ surely means ‘not having enough’, or ‘being deprived’? But not having enough of, or being deprived of what? Read more

  
  Vancouver's diasporas promote development around the world
 Author: Douglas Olthof | Posted: January 16, 2011
Members of the diaspora in Vancouver are shaping development projects - from the medical to the educational. Read more

  
  Starting the conversation
 Author: Douglas Olthof | Posted: January 11, 2011
Members of the diaspora engage their communities, here in Vancouver and around the world, to facilitate change in their places of origin in a variety of ways. Read more