Changing Tides – May 2024
Our region’s new SLF grandmother liaison is announced and she is a One World Granny! There’s also news of summer and fall events in the Ottawa-Gatineau region. Changing Tides, May …
Moon Magic: A Tribute in Story & Song
Join us for Stories for a Summer Evening 2024 on June 26. “Moon Magic features well-known Ottawa storytellers and musicians including Gail Anglin, Susan Sweeney Hermon, Jack Pyl, Anne Hurley and Peggy Edwards. Entertainment, …
Grannyfest, Wednesday June 5
Meet Meg French, CEO of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, and Idah Mukuka Nambeya, Senior Advisor to the Grandmothers Campaign. Listen to the awesome drumming of Kathy Armstrong, director of the …
Action: Congratulate Minister Hussen!
“Our government believes and knows the value of international aid, and the results that it delivers all around the world, and right here at home.” – Minister of International Development …
Standing Up for the Okavango Delta
GRAN and partners have lodged a formal human rights complaint against Canadian ReconAfrica’s oil exploration activities in the Okavango Delta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This is a critical step …
Two Spring Events by Grandmas AIDing Grandmas
Check out their April 23 Card Party and the May 25 Plant and Garden Sale
Introducing Hello Friends! Keynote Speaker Sally Armstrong
“Striding into Taliban-held Afghanistan with a chador over her six-foot frame, playing high-fives with a traumatized child rape survivor in the Congolese jungle, marching with the defiant grandmothers in Swaziland, …
GRAN Update March 2024
A packed issue! Everything you need to know to register for Hello Friends in May, updates from GRAN’s watch groups on access to medicines, climate, education, mining justice and the …
Celebrate International Women’s Day
The Stephen Lewis Foundation is celebrating International Women’s Day on Friday, March 8 by telling the stories of six remarkable women from Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Uganda and Canada who are building …
What is Canada’s “Official Development Assistance”?
This month GRAN’s Small Sips explains the basics of “ODA,” what it covers and does not, and how Canada is living up to its international commitments.