Cuso International West

Kathleen Lowe worked as a publishing advisor to a regional NGO in Ghana. She became a publishing consultant and the department head of publishing. She met Princess Anne and shares the story of meeting her and other members of the royal family.

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Robin Halem, joined CUSO in 1968 after he finished University. He served in Nigeria during the Nigerian-Biafran War. Robin learned that war affects developing countries, its people, and their lives in various ways. In Nigeria, Robin did Farm Manage...

When he turned 10, Brandon Peters stayed in Fort Villa, Vanuatu for two and half years. Brandon recalls the military coups in the Solomon Islands and Fiji, and says the aftershock of the coup was felt in Vanuatu. Upon returning to Canada, he finished h...

Phil Bartle is a senior planner, trainer, and adviser of development projects. Specialist in the sociology of communities, and in community empowerment, he shares stories of his time in Ghana.

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Richard was based in Vanuatu, but also travelled to other places along the Pacific: the Soloman Islands, Papa New Guinea, Figgle, and Fiji. While serving with CUSO-VSO, he was part of the Community Forestry Project. Richard says, he learned "hard pr...

Owen Gaskell worked in a teacher training college in East Malaysia from 1973-1975, providing post secondary trainings for teachers. He reflects on his experience overseas with his partner, and daughter. On assignment, he worked in the Educational Psy...

Pamela Thompson worked as a social worker and a psychologist in Alberta before being placed in the Philippines. Once in the Philippines, she worked in the Women and Children Friendly Center providing service to women and children who were victims of ...

Doug Piquette worked as a Community Developer in Northern Alberta and Bangladesh. Doug applied his experiences and skills in Peru for a term of 5 years by developing marketing projects for small villagers that were trying to export medicines. Later, ...

Karina Hurtadi, from Peru, living in Canada, worked in Bolivia for three years as South to South Volunteer. She was part of a Prevention Program in which she worked with young women who were street vendors, and tried to prevent them from becoming stree...

Helen Whitson worked as a primary school teacher trainer in Cassaca, a small village in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. She was involved with the Rural Education Projects. (PROTEC).

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