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Occasionally I am challenged as to why cbm Canada does not do more work in Canada. Usually people that do challenge me have a disability, or they are parents of children with a disability. I know that there is poverty in Canada. I know that people with disabilities are often left out of community and forgotten in Canada. I...
Read moreFirst year in cbm Canada.
A few weeks ago – May 1 – I had my one year anniversary in working with cbm Canada. The year has gone quickly – it seems only yesterday that I started. So what have I learned? I came to cbm with some prior understanding and work with people who have disabilities. I worked in the Middle East with...
Read moreDream boldly…
One of our many wonderful staff persons in cbm Canada – Robin – recently returned from a trip to Malawi. She came back with a challenge to us. Robin said we need to dream boldly. Robin met a man who came from rural village. As a young boy he met a surgeon and he dreamed he too, would become one. He...
Read moreIt's About the Future…
I wondered what would strike me in my return to Kinshasa. Surprisingly it has been the small things – the building thunderstorm, colourful lizards, beautiful butterflies, sunsets that cannot be described, the methodical sound of the chopping of a man pruning a palm tree. Each of these evoked a flash of memory. It is also the people. Phrases that...
Read moreAmazing Commitment
Kinshasa now has 8 million people. Most of these people live in slums without electricity, running water or plumbing. In many areas there are no identifiable streets. Imagine trying to set up a disability program in these conditions and with so many people? Today I saw how this can be done. The cbm partner has set up a Community...
Read moreFirst impressions
I made it back to Kinshasa. After 37 years I wondered what I would recognize. As we drove through the city there were moments of recognition. Yet the city has grown so much – and deteriorated so much – that those moments were all too few. What is not new is the poverty. Indeed that seems worse than when...
Read moreJames' mother
I have spent the last few days working in the regional office in Nairobi. It is important work, even if we are just seeing the walls of the office and not seeing the actual projects. Last night I thought a great deal of James, the four year old I saw on Monday in the slums of Nairobi. (See my...
Read moreOld song… new meaning
Today, in Nairobi, I was privileged to go on some project visits with one of the cbm Canada partners – APDK (Association for Physical Disabilities in Kenya). One of the visits was a home visit. We met James. James is a boy of 4 with CP living with his grandmother. James’ mother left them when he was born as...
Read moreGoing home to Africa…!
Tomorrow I leave for Africa – Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo. I grew up in the Congo and it will be my first time back since I was 15 years old! My pending trip has brought back memories and reflections. One of the songs I remember from my childhood is “Jesus Loves me”. I grew up...
Read moreSuffering and us!
Why does God allow suffering? This was the obvious question around the earthquake in Haiti. I had a ringside view of different answers. I was privileged to travel in Haiti with Lorna Dueck from “Listen up TV”. You can see her latest show on accountability in Haiti here. The answer Lorna received in Haiti was relatively simple. God is not to...
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