Cuso International West

Mary Pyne is a Nurse educator who has spent 8 years in Africa from Angola to the Congo. Worked in Midwifery and Cholera prevention. She served with us in Nicaragua.

It was great meeting you in Saskatoon.

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I met Lesley in Brandon, Manitoba. She talked about her volunteer work before she went to Ghana and her desire to travel. In Ghana she worked in the Wa Municipal office on quality control and assessments of the education system. The food she liked and ...

Solly Sader immigrated to Canada from South Africa and met in Saskatoon at University. They served together in Bruni teaching Biology. Listen to their inspiring stories. The locals called them BrunicocoMauchi- I think it translates to red faced foreign...

Peter now is studying Fisheries and Agriculture in Nanaimo. In Ghana he taught agriculture in a rural youth training program and in Indonesia he worked as an agriculture teacher on water and fisheries project.

John thanks for your many years of servi...

Glenora and her husband Don Slimmons served in Barbados. Glenora helped put together a 4H club and taught home economics. The challenge was communications between estate and small farmers.

Talk about capacity building, Glenora just found out that one ...

Geoff Rippat went to Bolivia with his wife and 2 children. He worked on about 30 projects ranging from simple to large ones. Monitoring and evaluation which is essential in measuring goals. He is a social worker. He now works in Winnipeg with SAITAS , ...

In the second half of our conversation, Dr. Bartle continued to tell me about his international experiences that first started with his service with CUSO in Ghana in 1965. His work around the world has cemented his belief that international development...

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Dr. Phil Bartle is an esteemed international development worker and academic who began his international development career in 1965, the year he first went abroad with CUSO. After rgaduating from UBC with a degree in Economics he chose to volu...

We met John in Nanaimo where he is studying green building and renewable energy. John served in Kabali with the District of Kabali as an IT specialist.

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Barbara Kerfoot worked in Adult Literacy in India and lived in New Delhi. She married Dan Hooper, another RV from Nigeria. She was also the first Regional Coordinator in the Atlantic. I met her at the Parksville Library where she continues to work in l...