A Different Kind of Fashion Statement
Who would have thought I’d have an opinion about fashion! Another blogger pointed me to a current show in Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) called “Fashion Follows Form: Designs for Sitting”. I haven’t gone to the show yet, but I did visit the ROM website. It’s interesting, but not surprising, how fashion is normally designed around people who stand...
Read moreWhy did God make Grandmother’s?
Laura Lynn Tyler Thompson, a friend and ambassador of cbm travelled with us on a trip – back to where she grew up – to Uganda. I wanted to share this blog with you because I feel she’s captured the vital role that grandmother’s play in Uganda, one of the world’s poorest developing countries. Enjoy the read! At the...
Read moreA Toilet can be a Gateway to a Future for a Child!
It’s bad enough if a child can’t get to school because of lack of mobility or distance. Imagine the indignity of a child being denied access to school because he or she can’t use the school toilet. It’s not a challenge – a humiliation – you’d wish on your own child or any other child, certainly not a sweet,...
Read moreDo the Stones Need to Talk for Us?
In the Middle East stones are representative of protest. Whenever protest happens, it is accompanied by stones – usually being thrown. There are certainly many of them around. After living in the Middle East, seeing stones used in this way, I came to appreciate a new meaning to the story in Luke concerning Palm Sunday: As he was now...
Read moreOpportunity Links Canada with Malawi
At cbm Canada we believe all people have equal value. This means that when given opportunities for education and leadership and employment, people with disabilities have so much to offer their communities. One man, who believed this whole-heartedly, was our friend Paul Hutcheson. A devout Christian and long-time advocate for persons with disabilities, Paul faithfully served on the cbm...
Read moreGod really did create us for relationship
Brian Hatchell, cbm Canada Guest Blogger Monday, March 26, 2012 The penultimate build day, hard to believe it’s coming to an end. After taking Sunday off to go to church and relax for a day, it was back to the build site today.
Read moreWe knew the pain was the result of hard work, hard work on behalf of someone who needs assistance
Brian Hatchell, cbm Canada Guest Blogger Nothing makes you feel as sore as manual labour, especially if you are used to working at a desk all day. Today was our first day on the build site, and I don’t think very many of us, including myself, had any idea how hard it is to build a house from the...
Read morecbm and Habitat Canada team up to build accessible housing for people living with a disability.
Brian Hatchell, cbm Canada Guest Blogger Flew from Lilongwe, Malawi on Friday to Durban, South Africa today via Johannesburg. I am now switching gears in the heart of southern Africa. I am going from visiting cbm funded work in Swaziland and Malawi to participating on a joint cbm Canada/Habitat Canada build in Kwa Zulu Natal.
Read moreToday, I learned the true value of volunteers.
Brian Hatchell, cbm Canada Guest Blogger I learned the true value of volunteers today. Not that I ever thought it wasn’t valuable before, but today it took on a much deeper meaning for me. We headed to the bush to see an eye-screening clinic. And when I say we drove into the bush, I mean we drove into the...
Read moreAisha, 22-years-old drags her right leg as she runs.
Brian Hatchell, cbm Canada Guest Blogger We flew from Manzini, Swaziland to Lilongwe, Malawi today and met up with Stefan Dofel, cbm’s Country Coordinator for Malawi. We hopped in a couple vehicles and drove east from Lilongwe – the capital of Malawi – to the town of Salima on the coast of Lake Malawi.
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