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.
Don’t miss the GRAN gathering May 13-15!
Meet GRANs from across the country at Hello Friends 2024 in Toronto. The theme of this gathering, the first since 2018, is MAKING A DIFFERENCE – EMBRACING OUR GRANDMOTHER POWER! …
GRAN Learning Event Feb. 1
A conversation about African grandmothers’ role in climate change. Elsie Bokaba will share her research and passion for the often-neglected role of older women in rural South Africa. 12:00 noon …
Feeding the future with Nature-Based Farming
Small Sips is a series of short messages on world hunger. Issue # 22 looks at the success the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has achieved in scaling up small solutions …
Kenyan Women Facing Climate Crisis
A recent photo series by Maasai photographers Claire Metito and Irene Naneu captures the experiences of two older Kenyan women as they navigate everyday life in a changing world.
GRAN & partners win human rights award
On December 15, the Right to a Healthy Environment Global Coalition of which GRAN is a member, won the 2023 UN Human Rights Award. This prestigious recognition is awarded every …