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Sheraton Parkway Hotel helps children thrive
Toronto, January 21, 2016 – The 2015 holiday season found the team at Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel & Suites banding together again for their sixth year to raise critical funds – more than...
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What’s the word on 2015?
What a difference you have made! You have sparked incredible change in the lives of children and their families all over the world. We have seen it in the joy returned to children’s lives – once...
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CFTC takes on CHF projects
Canadian Feed The Children To Lead Two New Food Security Development Projects in Ghana & Ethiopia TORONTO, July 30, 2015—In the wake of the news that esteemed Canadian NGO Canadian Hunger...
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Zoe’s Toy Emporium for Kids
Zoe (pictured below) learned about the importance of nutrition and food security through Canadian Feed The Children’s (CFTC) partnership with her community – and this past winter she decided to give...
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World Water Day 2016
“I hated going to school because of the lack of privacy,” said Laela, a Grade 7 student from Kirkos Sub-City, outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. “The doors of the old latrine were broken, walls were...
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Barely surviving to thriving
“I was one of the poorest of poor in my community and I was struggling to survive with my two children,” Woinshet Tefera, a 34-year-old widow from a small village outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia told us....
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The CFTC family is growing!
We interviewed Rhonda Taylor, CFTC’s Director, Canada Programs, who recently joined the team to help lead the expansion of CFTC’s National Aboriginal Nutrition program to 20 new communities by 2020....
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Future of farming: Bill Gates
The future of farming “Agricultural productivity is one of the most basic things that can help the poor move to a more prosperous life,” Bill Gates stated in a new video released to coincide with...
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Happy graduation, Limber!
“I love my teachers because they love me and teach me many things,” seven-year-old Limber told us, when we recently visited him in his family home. We went to see him to celebrate his recent graduation...
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Farming: changing the pulse
Ahmed joined MILEAR in 2014 and learned how to grow and sell mung bean, a resilient pulse crop. Ahmed lives in Shekla village in the Eastern Amhara Region of Ethiopia. He has four children – two sons...
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New school brings new hope
NEW SCHOOL GRAND OPENING IN KPACHELO, NORTHERN GHANA Lucas Martin (Ipsos Foundation) and Gail Black (CFTC) cut the ribbon with the Chief of Kpachelo, officially opening Kpachelo school on May 10th...
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You made CHANGE happen!
“It was a watershed moment,” began CFTC’s President & CEO Debra Kerby, speaking at a May End-of-Project Learning Forum held in Tamale, Ghana and referring to the 2013 start of the Climate Change in...
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A well full of opportunities
“I used to work as a daily labourer on other people’s farms for a small wage,” Hussien said, reflecting on the challenges he and his wife faced in feeding their children. When their fields could not...
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Students take action
Students take action for Indigenous food rights “Words mean nothing if the actions don’t follow,” Aleena Ahmed told us, reflecting on the week of fundraising she helped lead with peers at Stephen Lewis...
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Growing food (and love)
When the rains leave northern Ghana, so too do the men. Smallholder farm families who depend on rain-fed crops often send the men south in the dry season to find work – leaving children and wives – so...
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Women reel in success
When aquaculture was introduced through Canadian Feed The Children’s (CFTC) food security project RESULT, women enthusiastically joined knowing they could cultivate high-protein food and earn money at...
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Where are we now?
It’s been three years since the passing of South African activist Nelson Mandela (often remembered by his traditional Xhosa clan name ‘Madiba’) but his legacy lives on. Despite the challenges he faced...
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Sponsorship changed my life
Yovani, age 14, is a sponsored child from Uganda. “My name is Yovani. I am 14 years old and I am in senior one at high school. I joined Canadian Feed The Children’s child sponsorship program when I was...
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Taking Responsibility
We recently brought you the story of the rebuilding of a school in Kpachelo, Northern Region, Ghana – a project brought to fruition with thanks to significant funding from the Ipsos Foundation. In this...
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Growing in Garden Hill
CFTC is proud to announce that we have formally signed an agreement with a new partner, Aki Energy, which is involved in some exciting agricultural and food security work in Garden Hill, Manitoba – a...
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