In this episode of 15 Minutes to Change the World, we’ll discuss how Canadians can support charities and how charities themselves can weather the challenges of this new era. Our guest today is Marina Glogovac, president and CEO of CanadaHelps.
Month: November 2020
This Giving Tuesday, I’m thinking about gratitude
On Tuesday, we have the opportunity to celebrate what makes us most human — the caring and the humanity we share. Just as it did 75 years ago, the world needs CARE today, perhaps more so than ever.
Solving the Shadow Pandemic: 5 actions needed now to end gender-based violence
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, CARE International Secretary General, Sofia Sprechmann Sineiro outlines 5 critical steps governments and policy makers must take now to condemn gender-based violence to history.
Hurricanes in Central America
Parts of Central America have been devastated by Hurricane Eta, which made landfall at the beginning of November. Now, less than two weeks later, Hurricane Iota is forging a path of destruction in Honduras, northern Nicaragua, Guatemala and southern Belize.
15 Minutes on Climate Action and Climate Justice
Our guest today is Catherine Abreu, an internationally recognized, award-winning campaigner whose work centers on building powerful coalitions to advance transformative action on climate change. Catherine is the Executive Director of Climate Action Network Canada, Canada’s primary network of more than 100 organizations working on climate change and energy issues from coast to coast to coast.
Stories of shock and survival: Three months after the Beirut explosion
Three months after the explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, CARE Canada’s Ramzi Saliba reflects on his deployment there: how it personally affected him being from Lebanon, the complexities of compounding emergencies happening all together, CARE’s response, and the incomprehensible impact on the people.
Return from Lebanon: Three months after the Beirut explosion
CARE Canada Humanitarian Program Manager Ramzi Saliba reflects on his deployment to Beirut, Lebanon following the massive explosion that devastated the city on August 4, 2020.
Preventing a COVID catastrophe in Bangladesh
Cox’s Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh is home to around one million Rohingya refugees, living in close proximity to each other. These are ideal conditions for the spread of coronavirus. Ram Das, Deputy Country Director at CARE Bangladesh, explains how a well-coordinated humanitarian response has prevented a COVID catastrophe.
Yemen conflict, hunger and now COVID-19
Yemen is a country already battered by conflict, hunger and flooding. Suha Basharen describes how CARE is responding to the intersecting of needs of a complex emergency.