Geoff and Christine Olsen, members of the Toronto Professional Chapter, visit the Kuapa Kokoo Fair Trade cocoa cooperative in Ghana. With over 50 000 members, this cooperative exports cocoa around the world. This slideshow takes you from the farm to the processing and storage facilities where the huge amount of cocoa is processed and transported to international markets, including Canada.

In Canada, Engineers Without Borders strives to make Canadians model global citizens by having them contribute to and connect with actions on the ground across Africa. One of the best examples of this is The Run to End Poverty, a half marathon that is mirrored by a run in Africa. The run, founded by Christian Beaudrie, is a fantastic way for people in Canada to connect with the communities that EWB works with in Africa.

Meet Anokye, a field worker with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in Northern Ghana. Because of his perseverance and experimentation, farmers in the Builsa district have adopted started recording their expenses and incomes. In this article, Sarah Grant expands on Anokye’s story and sheds light on the value of field perspectives in informing development policy and practice.

The volition of one man to bring water, to bring life, to his family was a passionate plea to reduce uncertainty. However, it is a possibility that his well may very well be contaminated breeding ground for disease, in which uncertainty may flourish...

After burning the mission statement in January some of EWB's organizational direction came into question. Now there is clarity on where EWB is heading, but there is a big opportunity for the membership to create new ideas to get there. This video explains the four major outcomes which direct EWB's work and what is needed to realize them.

From the Financial Times: “An estimated 300m Africans - about half the continent's population - live in absolute poverty, vulnerable to hunger and disease and in many cases going without schooling. There has been little consensus, however, in an online debate launched by the Financial Times this week, on whether more or less foreign development assistance will help cut their number. The debate was prompted by the Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo's polemical book, Dead Aid, which suggests that foreign aid has ultimately perpetuated poverty.”