Food Choices
(SOUTHERN AFRICA) What do you think of when you think about food choices? In Canada and the US, we have been programmed to think about “food choices” as a conscious decision to eat healthier food.
World Renew’s Response to Hurricane Manuel in Mexico
On September 15, 2013, Mexico experienced the most intense rainfall
Create Change with the Peter Fish!
Every autumn a school of Peter Fish make their way
Farmers Manage Trees and Offset Climate Change
World Renew is working to help people adapt to weather extremes in impoverished communities around the world. In West Africa, where this work has mainly been focused on drought relief over the last decade, it is now flooding that has recently displaced 48,000 people and killed 20 more.
Low-fuel Stoves Save Energy
Ajio Beatrice is a married mother of four who wasn’t so sure about joining a World Renew community group in her village in Dricile, Uganda, because it had a savings component. Instead, what Beatrice really wanted was to learn to build an energy-saving stove.
Inspiring the Neighbors
If you met Francisca Moncada Hernandez for the first time, you would be fooled by her short stature and quiet demeanor. Francisca doesn’t fit the common image of an active and effective community leader on the outside. However, this long-time resident of Nazareth I, a small indigenous community on the North Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, is building progress in the community around her, ensuring her family’s well-being and developing her role as an agricultural promoter for a food security program in the area.
Why We Do What We Do
In the 40-year history of World Renew Disaster Response Services,
World Renew Responds to Philippines Earthquake
A deadly 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the Philippine islands of Bohol and Cebu on October 15, killing at least 144 people and affecting more than three million. The number of casualties is expected to rise as emergency responders work to gain access to some of the harder hit areas. World Renew is coordinating with Integral Alliance to assess the extent of the damage and to facilitate assistance for affected families.
Cyclone Phailin: Lives Spared but Needs Mounting in India
People living in the Indian states of Odisha and Andhra
World Renew Receives $1 Million from Canadian Government for Syria
Two thousand more Syrian families will receive much-needed assistance thanks to World Renew and funding from the International Humanitarian Assistance (IHA) Directorate of the Canadian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD), formerly known as CIDA.