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Posts By: Nicole Farn

Inclusive Leadership, Women and Youth Mentors and Promoters

Change for Children’s Maternal and Child Health program in Comitancillo, Guatemala targets indigenous pregnant and nursing mothers and newborns who receive home visits f... Change for Children’s Maternal and Child Health program in Comitancillo, Guatemala targets ind...

In The Field

Encouraging Women to Be Brave

When the Change for Children dental brigade team sets out on Friday for the Comitancillo region of Guatemala, they will be bringing more than dental care. One volunteer, Joyce... When the Change for Children dental brigade team sets out on Friday for the Comitancillo region of G...

In Canada, Travel Stories

Everyone smiles in the Same Language

By Clinic Day 4, we unload and unpack our equipment/supply bins with the ease of a finely tuned pit crew. We arrive to patients waiting in the shade of the few trees in the ch... By Clinic Day 4, we unload and unpack our equipment/supply bins with the ease of a finely tuned pit ...

Blog, In The Field, Travel Stories

Seeing the World just a little More clearly

We set up clinic space in health centre hallways, in classrooms, in a church, and in a lean-to shelter. Inside. Outside. We are flexible. And the patients are patient. Through... We set up clinic space in health centre hallways, in classrooms, in a church, and in a lean-to shelt...

Blog, In The Field, Travel Stories

Alida Takes Control

Determined to improve the health and nutrition of her family, nine months ago Alida began to work a tiny plot of uncultivated pastureland with a vision of creating a family ga... Determined to improve the health and nutrition of her family, nine months ago Alida began to work a ...

In The Field

The next chapter for Marjorie

Marjorie works hard. The first time we meet her in the Bosawas bioshphere reserve in Nicaragua, she is carrying rice. The second time we cross paths, she is carrying water fro... Marjorie works hard. The first time we meet her in the Bosawas bioshphere reserve in Nicaragua, she ...

In The Field

Enabling the Everyday

It is not every day that one returns to communities in Nicaragua to witness water flowing freely where previously there was none. It is not every day, but it is today. It is not every day that one returns to communities in Nicaragua to witness water flowing freely whe...

Blog, In The Field, Travel Stories