Ryan Hreljac was a 6-year-old boy determined to build a well in Uganda after learning in school about the challenges of the kids his age who didn’t have access to clean, safe drinking water, and the...
Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief (CPAR) Updates
Search
Refine the list with filters
Search helpList
Ethiopia + 1 more
A new partnership to enhance the sexual reproductive health of women and adolescents in Ethiopia
Ottawa – September, 2020 CPAR and Global Affairs Canada are joining forces on a new four-year, $4.1 million CAD project to improve the sexual reproductive health (SRH) of women and adolescents in...
COVID-19 Prevention in Malawi
CPAR is working to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Malawi and in Ethiopia As COVID-19 continues its global path, all of us at CPAR are very aware of how countries with weak health systems are at a...
COVID-19 Prevention in Ethiopia
CPAR is working to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Ethiopia and in Malawi As COVID-19 continues its global path, all of us at CPAR are very aware of how countries with weak health systems are at a...
Statement on sexual misconduct in the International Development sector
There have been reports of sexual misconduct within the international development sector. CPAR believes no-one should ever be exploited or abused. That includes sexual or gender based abuse,...
Ethiopia + 2 more
Building Healthy Communities in Africa - Annual Report 2016-2017
Dear Friends, Thank you for making 2016-2017 yet another great year at CPAR. At CPAR, we are focused on looking towards the future as we work to secure funding, design and implement programs, and...
Ethiopia + 2 more
Building Healthy Communities in Africa - Annual Report 2015-2016
In September 2015, the 193 countries of the UN General Assembly adopted the 2030 Development Agenda, replacing the previous Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This ambitious agenda of 17...
Cholera Update
The Malawi Ministry of Health says that cholera has killed 9 people in the country since December 19, 2015. Last week we learned that it has reached one of the northern communities that CPAR is...
Diversifying Income With Certified Seeds
Elbind Woanze, 25, lives with her husband and six children in Gessess Kebele in Dibate district. Elbind and her fellow Farmers Field School (FFS) members have long been reliant on physically impure...
New Project Announcement
The new project that will focus on improving food security and increasing awareness of the causes and consequences of environmental degradation in Rubana River Catchment area in the in Bunda...
World + 4 more
World Health Day Challenge 2014 Special Health Report
FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION Nutrition challenges are not only about a lack of food. Malnutrition often arises when there is a gap in knowledge about positive nutrition behaviours – including what to...
Ethiopia + 2 more
CPAR report - Fall 2014
WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE – IMPORTANT COMPONENTS OF CPAR’S WORK TO BUILD HEALTHY COMMUNITIES IN AFRICA. “Water and Sanitation is one of the primary drivers of public health. I often refer to it...
Year Round Food Security
Sowing improved seeds for food security. W/ro Yejanie Mango (43), a mother of three children, lives in Kido Kebele, Dibate District. Her family’s livelihood is entirely dependent on traditional...
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
BACKGROUND Despite significant natural resource endowments, a large proportion of the people living in Ethiopia struggle to produce or buy enough nutritious food to feed their families. Crop and...
World + 4 more
CPAR report - Spring 2013
IMPROVING MATERNAL, NEWBORN AND CHILD HEALTH CARE IN AFRICA In the next five minutes.... 3 women will lose their lives to complications of pregnancy or childbirth, 60 others will suffer debilitating...
Seed Fairs in Ethiopia Increase Crop Production and Productivity
In order to increase crop production and productivity, CPAR-Ethiopia has been distributing various improved seed technologies to the farming communities in Were Jarso district since 2010. Improved...
Supporting people living with HIV with rabbit production
Small ruminant livestock play a vital role in the livelihoods of many rural communities providing food, income and manure. Supporting farmers with small livestock like rabbits has proved to be a...
Farmer Field Schools: A Dream Come True for Malawian Farmers
Recently CPAR Malawi’s Farmers First Program expanded into the two new group villages of Chinzu and Kabudula. This has brought both excitement and hope to vulnerable small-scale farmers living in the...
Malawi + 3 more
CPAReport Winter 2010
Tackling Food and Nutrition Insecurity in Rural Africa FOOD SECURITY Achieving food security continues to be a challenge for developing nations - especially for those living in rural Africa. Food...
Uganda: Recovery in Acholi sub region - Securing Farmers' Futures, one field at a time
It has been 1.5 years since Ayella Johnson returned to his village in Raa, Okidi Parish, Atiak Sub County in Northern Uganda. Ayella and his family had been living in an IDP (internally displaced...