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Stories from CIDA trips available

Community newspaper journalists who win the annual Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Awards travel abroad to see first hand the kind of conditions that exist and the kind of contibutions that fellow Canadians are making in the world. This archive contains follow-up stories written by these award-winning Canadian Community Newspapers Association (CCNA) journalists who have taken part in CIDA sponsors trips. The stories are free for CCNA members to reprint in their publications.

Past trips include: Tanzania, Ghana, Vietnam, Ethiopia and the Philippines.

Stories are sorted by trip.

2006 CIDA Winners' Trip The following stories are from a trip to Mozambique.

Headline	Author	Date
Travels in Mozambique: After the cyclone—Canadians help rebuild in Vilanculos	Amanda Stephenson	5/7/2007
Travels in Mozambique: A Saskatchewan presence on the other side of the world	Amanda Stephenson	4/23/2007
Adventures of a stupid tourist	Amanda Stephenson	4/16/2007
Travels in Mozambique: World Water Day—Celebrating a valuable resource in a thirsty land	Amanda Stephenson	4/16/2007
More connected than you might think	Amanda Stephenson	4/9/2007
Into the unknown	Amanda Stephenson	3/19/2007

2005 CIDA Winners' Trip The following stories are from a trip to Zamia.

Headline	Author	Date
What next?	Susan O'Neill	6/28/2006
Caterpillars are a delicacy	Crystal Crimi	6/28/2006
Zambia has a rich culture	Crystal Crimi	6/28/2006
University residence is falling apart	Crystal Crimi	6/28/2006
Protecting Zambia’s most vulnerable	Susan O'Neill	6/28/2006
Family Planning	Susan O'Neill	6/28/2006
Canadians help give Zambian girls a better education	Crystal Crimi	6/28/2006
School built by Canadians	Crystal Crimi	6/28/2006
Scourge's collateral damage	Susan O'Neill	6/28/2006
Borders don't stop Canadian engineers	Crystal Crimi	6/28/2006
Canada Fund chickens help rural Africa	Crystal Crimi	6/28/2006
Canadians help pump up crop production	Crystal Crimi	6/28/2006
Country has a long way to go	Crystal Crimi	6/28/2006
Introduction -- International aid and Africa the debate continues	Susan O'Neill	6/28/2006
Widowed mother of four has worked long and hard to see school become a reality.	Susan O'Neill	5/1/2006
AIDS in Africa (sidebar)	Susan O'Neill	5/1/2006
What is HIV? (sidebar)	Susan O'Neill	5/1/2006
Medical caseload: By the numbers	Susan O'Neill	5/1/2006
Antiretroviral drugs: What are they? (sidebar)	Susan O'Neill	5/1/2006
More women living with HIV/AIDS: Lawyer, AIDS sufferer, shares cautionary tale	Susan O'Neill	5/1/2006
Patient counsellors break good news and bad	Susan O'Neill	5/1/2006
Exodus of nurses a problem in Zambia	Susan O'Neill	5/1/2006
Cultural obstacles affect HIV/AIDS treatment: ‘Slimming disease’ creates social stigma	Susan O'Neill	5/1/2006
Where faith meets medicine: Traditional healers now refer sick children to ‘Western’ clinics	Susan O'Neill	5/1/2006
Zambia's Palabana Rural Health Centre	Susan O'Neill	5/1/2006
Zambia Demographics	Susan O'Neill	5/1/2006
Zambian school built by Canadians: A group of widows started Rehoboth to help educate orphans	Crystal Crimi	5/1/2006
The lay of the land: Treadle irrigation system has made a big difference on small-scale African farms	Crystal Crimi	5/1/2006
Zambia is one of the poorest countries in the world: From a top African earner, to stricken with poverty	Crystal Crimi	5/1/2006
Zambia - a nation rich in culture: African country mixes tradition with the western world	Crystal Crimi	5/1/2006

2004 CIDA Winners' Trip The following stories are from a trip to Tanzania.

Headline	Author	Date
A world of help	Isabelle Southcott	3/4/2005
When a refugee camp is home	Isabelle Southcott	3/4/2005
Living in between	Isabelle Southcott	3/4/2005
Sense of hopelessness falls over Tanzania	Tamara Shephard	2/18/2005
TANZANIA: New era dawns in foreign aid	Tamara Shephard	2/18/2005
Soap making helps wash out poverty	Tamara Shephard	2/18/2005
'The world has to do something for Africa'	Tamara Shephard	2/11/2005
Travel opens new worlds	Isabelle Southcott	1/21/2005
Guardian reporter prepares for assignment of a lifetime in Africa	Tamara Shephard	1/21/2005

2003 CIDA Winners Trip The following stories are from a trip to Ghana, Africa.

Headline	Author	Date
Piggery provides a taste for profit	Susan Jones	3/11/2004
Village vitamins make a difference	Susan Jones	3/11/2004
Quenching Ghana’s thirst	Susan Jones	3/11/2004
CIDA working to bring water to African communities	Susan Jones	3/11/2004
Breaking the literacy CODE	Susan Jones	3/11/2004
Canada aids the HIV fight	Susan Jones	3/11/2004
Trading in knowledge	Susan Jones	3/11/2004
Going thirsty in Ghana	Mitch Wright	3/11/2004
Prescription against poverty	Mitch Wright	3/11/2004
Timely help for Ghana's governance	Mitch Wright	3/11/2004

2002 CIDA Winners' Trip The following stories are from a trip to Vietnam.

Headline	Author	Date
New school a welcome improvement	Kevin Weedmark	4/14/2003
Economic opportunities bring new hope to peasants	Kevin Weedmark	4/14/2003
A hand up for the poorest of the poor in southern Vietnam	Kevin Weedmark	4/14/2003
Local editor chosen to represent Canada in Vietnam	Chilliwack (BC) Progress	2/23/2003
‘It is damaging to my psyche’	Rick Collins	2/21/2003
'I know I'm dying'	Rick Collins	2/21/2003
Vietnam developing nicely	Rick Collins	2/21/2003
AIDS sufferers grateful for care	Kevin Weedmark	2/17/2003
Giving hope to the hopeless	Kevin Weedmark	2/17/2003
Harnessing Mother Nature	Kevin Weedmark	2/10/2003
Learning a trade, gaining a future	Kevin Weedmark	2/10/2003
Vietnam in the 21st century	Kevin Weedmark	2/3/2003

2001 CIDA Winners' Trip The following stories are from a trip to Ethiopia.

Headline	Author	Date
Ethiopia - Canadian Foodgrains Bank	Kathleen Griffin	5/24/2002
Ethiopia - Column	Kathleen Griffin	5/24/2002
Ethiopia-Canada Fund	Kathleen Griffin	5/24/2002
Overview of Ethiopia's challenges like soil erosion and water, history, Canada's new initiative for the G8 summit	Kathleen Griffin	5/24/2002
Ethiopia - HIV/AIDS	Kathleen Griffin	5/16/2002

2000 CIDA Winners' Trip The following stories are from a trip to Philippines.

Headline	Author	Date
Small steps to development	Kevin Weedmark	4/24/2001
Embattled community looks to the future	Kevin Weedmark	4/24/2001
Development seen aiding peace	Kevin Weedmark	4/24/2001
Canadian aid helping reforest a mountain	Kevin Weedmark	4/24/2001
From fighters to farmers	Kevin Weedmark	4/6/2001
High hopes placed on golden rice	Kevin Weedmark	3/28/2001
Battle with TB a life-and-death struggle	Kevin Weedmark	3/28/2001
Foreign aid takes many forms	Kevin Weedmark	3/28/2001
A helping hand on the streets of Manila	Kevin Weedmark	3/28/2001
Philippines Column 1	Kevin Weedmark	3/28/2001
Philippines Story 4 - Students Going Hungry	Susan Jones	3/27/2001
Philippines Story 3 - Filling the World's Food Basket	Susan Jones	3/27/2001
Philippines Story 2	Susan Jones	3/27/2001
Philippines Sidebar 1	Susan Jones	3/27/2001
Philippines Story 1	Susan Jones	3/27/2001