A Forest for the Trees
By Sean Kelly
Canadian volunteers take a walk in woods that are models of community stewardship and sustainability.

Banking on Women
In Northern Ghana, women are using microcredit loans to turn small change into a better economic future.

One-Way Ticket
Murray Gardiner journeyed to Africa with CUSO in 1979 – and is still there almost 30 years later.

Spirits of an Island
Canadian volunteers join the ghosts of an uninhabited island to help protect a unique ecosystem in the South Pacific.

The Beautiful Game
A program that uses soccer to teach life skills is creating fields of dreams in Ghana, West Africa.

Ghana's Gavel: Judicial Reform in West Africa
Canadian judges are working with their counterparts in Ghana to help improve a legal system that suffered decades of neglect - and worse - under military governments.

A Mexican Cornucopia
In Mexico, old corn is new again, and it's helping preserve jobs and biodiversity

Singing For Your Supper: Culture as Economic Development
Is creativity a cure for the economic blues?

Smoke and Mirrors? Kyoto's Clean Development Mechanism
Can a key component of the Kyoto Protocol help combat greenhouse gases and under-development, or will good intentions go up in smoke?

Fair Trade Tea & Coffee could Boost Post-Tsunami Recovery
In the wake of the deadly tsunamis, economies must be re-built in Asia. But this time ethics should be part of the brew.

Tourism in the Wake of the Tsunamis
Tourists in Tsunami-ravaged areas of Asia are faced with a dilemma: should they stay or should they go?

Helping Haiti
How can the international community help Haiti, one of the poorest nations in the Western Hemisphere, recover from its latest natural disasters?

Going Home Again
A Canadian takes an emotional journey back to the site of his overseas volunteer placement, 16 years later.

Growing Hope on the Miskito Coast
An unlikely partnership between Native communities in Saskatchewan and Nicaragua grows hope through the sustainable logging of indigenous forests.

A New Path in Bolivia
Canadian volunteers help build better futures for girls who live and work on the streets of Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Can Small Business Be Beautiful?
If you give the world's poor legal title to their land - no mater how humble or how acquired - you could give them the collateral they need to start businesses and create jobs.

Creativity Without Borders
A Canadian volunteer helps Costa Rican youth explore difficult social issues creatively through the arts.

Drugs of Choice
A Canadian plan to get low-cost medicine to the world's poor will help save countless lives - hopefully

Hampton, New Brunswick: Small Town, Big Heart
The home town of one of the architects of the global human rights system proves that big ideas can start in small places.

Chile's Street Kids Circus
International bigtop phenomenon Cirque du Soleil of Montreal teaches the art of the circus - and of life - to street kids in Chile.

A Sanctuary for Hope
A Canadian volunteer offers help - and hope - to street kids in Tanzania.

Democracy or Development: Which Comes First?
Canadians are helping build 'good governance' in the Developing World. But is democracy necessary for development, or is it the other way round?

Budda was a Lumberjack
A meditating eco-logger in Nova Scotia sees the forest for the trees

Preserving a Peoples' Soul
A Canadian volunteer helps promote Pacific culture in a global world.

The Butterfly Effect
Can butterfly 'farming' help save the world's vanishing rainforests?

Peace of Mind
A Nigerian journalist and human rights activist comes to Canada to help build a plan for peace for his country.

Bittersweet Chocolate
Many Third World farmers who grow the appetizing cocoa bean live in absolute poverty. But 'fair trade' can make chocolate taste better for both producer and consumer.

Nursing Without Borders
A Canadian nurse travels to Angola to help heal the wounds of a deadly civil war.

Beating AIDS in Africa
AIDS has devastated many Africa countries, and set back development by decades. But Uganda offers hope in the fight against the deadly disease.

Maritime Beekeepers
A Canadian couple have flown South to promote honey production in the Pacific.

A Passage to Africa
Wayn Hamilton is helping Black Nova Scotians connect with Africa and explore the source of their peoples' story.