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Youth Challenge International was born as a charitable organization in 1989. Inspired by the UK-based Operation Raleigh (1984–1988), Canadian alumni from this project, along with new volunteers and sponsors in Canada, organized to send a group of Canadian youth to Guyana to work with Guyanese youth on community-identified projects. [5]
Cuso International, then Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO), was launched on June 6, 1961, by a group of Canadian university graduates. [5] Established as a national organization at a meeting at McGill University in Montréal, Cuso was to become the national non-denominational coordinating agency for recruiting Canadian volunteers for services overseas.
The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme is a United Nations organization that contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide.. Volunteerism is a powerful means of engaging people in tackling development challenges, and it can transform the pace and nature of development.
In 2008 the RWTH Aachen University started the first international UROP program for students from the United States and Canada in Germany. The University of Sussex runs a similar scheme, across all of its departments, where undergraduates are funded for 6 weeks as Junior Research Associates.
Engineers Without Borders Canada (EWB; French: Ingénieurs sans frontières Canada, ISF) is a non-governmental organization devoted to international development. Founded in 2000 by George Roter and Parker Mitchell, engineering graduates from the University of Waterloo, it is a registered Canadian charity focused on finding solutions to extreme poverty, specifically in rural Africa.
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Crossroads' model of volunteer cooperation has provided many memorable and rewarding experiences for Crossroaders, including the writer Lawrence Hill. This year, Hill won Radio-Canada's Combat des Livres contest for his novel The Book of Negroes, which was inspired by his years of work with Crossroads International in Western Africa. [7]
In 2006, Foster Parents Plan in Canada also changed its name to Plan and the logo was updated. In 2011, with support from the Canadian government, Plan called on the UN to adopt October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child. [3] Plan International's Because I Am a Girl initiative launched on the first International Day of the Girl in ...