This holiday season consider RESULTS in your giving plans
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RESULTS receives no government funding and relies entirely on the generosity of people who believe in the power of our work to champion the poor.
As you are making plans about your year-end giving, please consider making a donation to RESULTS.
Donations can be mailed to:
RESULTS Canada
153 Chapel Street, Ottawa, Ontario
KIN 1H5
or by phone by calling the office at
(613) 562-9240
Thank you.
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Join a RESULTS Canada Group near you!
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Results Canada is growing! We have groups across Canada that would love to welcome you.
Calgary
Edmonton
Gatineau
Ottawa - community
Ottawa - university
Montréal
Québec City
Toronto
Vancouver
Victoria
Click HERE to view the contact details for each city.
We are always looking to expand, so if you are interested in starting a new group, please contact us.
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National Calls
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Sunday December 7
Listen in to hear
Dr. Mark W. Young, Senior Health Specialist, Policy and Evidence
Health Section, Programme Division, UNICEF (New York) discuss the importance of child survival initiatives in the developing world. His discussion will include an update on the Save a Million Lives Initiative for which the advocacy of RESULTS Canada volunteers was essential in obtaining Canadian government funding.
Sunday January 11
Listen in to hear
Alex Counts, CEO of the Grameen Foundation (Washington) discuss how, at a time when the traditional lenders are faltering, microfinance is a proven solution to poverty through small loans to the world's poorest.
All calls are at 4 pm PT,
5 pm MT, 7 pm ET
Dial 1-866-512-0904 and at the prompt 6732861
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Thoughts from anti-poverty champions
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply,
with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the
world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
Woodrow Wilson |
Who is RESULTS Canada?
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Our VisionA world free from poverty and needless suffering, where people thrive and contribute to their communities and the world. We see a world where citizens actively voice their concerns to their elected officials and thereby choose the poverty-related policies and priorities of their governments.Our Mission
To create the political and collective will to end the worst aspects of poverty, and to empower individuals to exercise their personal and political power.Our FocusWe focus on proven solutions to often neglected problems that perpetuate the cycle of poverty around the world. Currently our focus areas include tuberculosis, malaria, primary education, micro-credit, and sanitation.
How We Work
Grassroots volunteers from around the country meet atleast once a month in their local communities for Education and Action Meetings where they develop their knowledge on global poverty issues, strengthen their advocacy skills and take action.How To Get InvolvedSend an email to grassroots@results-resultats.ca. We'll help you determine the most effective way that you can join this powerful movement to put poverty on the political agenda!Our sister organization, RESULT:Educational FundRESULT:Educational Fund is a registered Canadian charity founded in 1991 and is committed to
advancing the fight to end global poverty and needless suffering
through research, education, and awareness-raising. Click HERE for more information. |
TB-HIV Co-infection
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Caring for Global Indigenous and "the Missing 40%"
Caring for global indigenous and "the missing 40%"
TB
is a disease of poverty. The majority of those infected globally are
amongst the world's poorest and most marginalized. Strategies are
needed to specifically diagnose and treat these people. I am happy to
report that RESULTS Canada staff have recently participated in two
meetings that propose concrete steps to do just that.
Aboriginal
Canadians are 20 to 30 times more likely to contract TB than other
people born in Canada. And TB rates are especially high among the 370
million Indigenous peoples in over 70 countries around the world who
are among the most marginalized peoples. Maori, Maasai, Mohawk and 130
other persons from 30 countries came together in Toronto for the
first-ever meeting of global indigenous people to address TB. RESULTS
Canada was invited for our acknowledged effort in fighting TB globally
through advocacy. The outcomes of this groundbreaking event included
demands to incorporate indigenous concerns into the WHO's Stop TB
Partnership and resolutions to make TB a permanent agenda item at the
annual UN Indigenous Forum.
In October, I met up with ACTION (Advocacy to Control TB Internationally)
partners in Paris at the annual International Union against TB and Lung
Disease conference. A clear theme emerged from the conference: we must
get to the "missing 40%". The World Health Organization (WHO)
estimates that we are simply failing to diagnose (and therefore treat)
40% of people with tuberculosis. At the Advocacy, Communications and
Social Mobilization Working Group meetings during the conference, we
collectively identified the Missing 40% theme as the key issue for
advocacy in the coming year.
You can join our efforts to push
CIDA to make an announcement on World TB Day (March 24) that Canada
will increase resources to fight TB globally. We have a goal of
personally delivering 1000 postcards to Minister Bev Oda demanding more
support to end this preventable disease. If you are interested in
getting your friends, family or colleagues involved in signing 30 or
more cards, please write me at katy@results-resultats.ca and I'll send a package to you.
Additionally,
our postcard efforts will be underscored by your continued appeals to
MPs and letters to the editor using data from our October Action Sheet. Thank you - keep in touch and keep up your efforts - we have a world of work to do!
Katy Kydd Wright
ACTION Project Manager
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Featured Letter
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Every month we highlight a letter by a RESULTS Canada volunteer. This month we'll look at a published letter by Dr.Bob Dickson of Calg ary. Versions of this letter were published in at least 6 publications across the country, proving that forwarding a good letter to many publications pays off!
Flush with successGlobe and Mail Saturday, November 15, 2008Finally, a World Day of significance.November
19 is World Toilet Day and almost half the world does not have the most
basic of sanitation services. Study after study show that using
latrines and soap can slash diseases and deaths in half. Canada has
been a laggard in pro- moting hygiene in the developing world. We
should make a concerted effort to do so, starting with a major
contribution to the World Health Organization's Global Sanitation Fund
to celebrate World Toilet Day.Robert C. Dickson, MD, Calgary(in the Globe version, they printed a lovely picture of a life raft
almost heart shaped with "World Toilet Day 08" on the inside and "We
Deserve Better" below it) To read more published letters by our volunteers, visit the publications page of our website www.results-resultats.ca |
Any Ideas?
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If you have questions about anything RESULTS-related or have an idea for an article in the next newsletter, please send your questions and ideas to grassroots@results-resultats.ca.
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The greatest gift:
Canada can be a global leader on child survival
Imagine more than 1000 preschool classrooms full of kids in Canada being wiped out every single day. Future leaders, doctors, teachers, and our collective hopes for the next generation wiped out with them.
According to UNICEF, 9.2 million children under the age of five, that 's 26,000 each day, succumb to a host of health challenges - malaria, diarrhea diseases, a lack of access to basic immunizations, to name a few. The causes of death have different names, but the root cause is almost always extreme poverty.
These children die because they lost the geographic lottery. They were "unlucky" enough to have been born in sub-Saharan Africa, or other distant and impoverished pockets of the globe. Had they been born here, they would have survived and probably thrived.
Remarkably, these jarring global statistics present a story of hope. Child survival is an area of development where inexpensive, proven interventions have had, and continue to have, tremendous impact.
What is needed is the political will to mobilize resources. Tell our MPs today that you want Canada to be a leader in saving children's lives with simple, proven, cost-effective sanitation and immunization measures. Click HERE to read our Action Sheet and the simple actions you can take to make children matter.
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Battling Malaria - a RESULTS success story
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When RESULTS Canada first started working on malaria in 2002, it was a forgotten disease in the international aid donor community. Malaria was killing up to 3 million people a year, yet it could be prevented with simple bed nets and treated with inexpensive drugs. However, very few dollars were spent fighting malaria and very few advocacy groups were working on it.
Today, six years after the start of RESULTS' malaria campaign, the global situation has improved dramatically. The front page headline in the Globe and Mail on November 1/08 sums it up: "Malaria effort brings Africa a rare public-health success story".
The article describes the rapid and fundamental change in the fight against malaria. International funding for malaria prevention has grown from just $62 million annually in 2003 to an estimated $1.6 billion in 2008. Much of Africa has had malaria deaths decline by 50% or more.
Canada has been a key to this progress. The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is the single largest donor of bed nets to Africa, funding nearly 6.4 million nets by the end of last year. Canada has been one of the leaders in the global malaria effort that now involves many donors, including the Global Fund, the Gates Foundation and the World Bank.
RESULTS played a key role in generating Canada's leadership on malaria. We have worked on malaria in 12 separate monthly actions since 2002. We have written hundreds of letters and published scores of pieces of media in newspapers across the country, demanding that Canada take action against malaria. By mid-2004, CIDA had begun funding bed nets in an effort which eventually grew to world-leading status.
Momentum in the fight against malaria continues to build. A Global Malaria Action Plan was launched a few weeks ago, with a goal of increasing malaria spending to about $6.5 billion annually. The intent is to fund even more rapid gains against malaria over the next few years.
Our malaria campaign was similar in many respects to our successful campaign on immunization in the 1990's. Canada eventually became a leader in a renewed global immunization campaign. To date, this campaign has lead to an 68% drop in global measles deaths, saving over two million lives.
The successes of our campaigns on both immunization and malaria demonstrate the power of RESULTS model. With persistence, our current campaign on sanitation and hygiene should meet with similar success.
Blaise Salmon
Campaigns Director
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Calgary Fundraiser an inspiring success
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Article Subheading
Volunteers raise funds and friends at
14th Annual RESULTS Calgary Fundraiser
Grassroots
volunteers are the heart of RESULTS. They are mothers and fathers who
believe no other parent's child should die because they lack access to
basic immunizations. They are neighbors who understand that no-one,
across the street or across the globe, should suffer from preventable
disease. Most of all, RESULTS' volunteers, and our donors, are
Canadians who understand that you don't have to be in Nairobi or
Calcutta to make a difference. You can be in Montreal or Calgary and
still touch the lives of those who suffer around the world. Last
month, in Calgary, our volunteers' proved that point by hosting an
amazing RESULTS fundraising breakfast. The 400-plus crowd at the
Calgary Stampede grounds was inspired by the hope and opportunity that
RESULTS represents and also motivated to donate. This single event
remains the largest annual grassroots fundraiser of any of RESULTS
international affiliates.  RESULTS Calgary volunteer team with Grameen Foundation CEO Alex Counts (bottom 4th from left)
It
is the tremdendous commitment, dedication and hard work of dozens of
volunteers in Calgary who make this event such an inspiring success. We
are so grateful to them and to the leadership of Margo, Michael, Dr.
Bob, Cathy, Randy, Cathy, Audrey, Jenn and so many others. With no
government funding, our organization relies on your efforts and the
support of donors across the country to stay in operation.
Congratulations Calgary and thank you! The fundraiser was also
a success in highlighting the importance of micro-credit as a ladder
out of poverty. Alex Counts, CEO of the Grameen Foundation spoke at the
breakfast. The Grameen Foundation has grown into a world-wide network
of microfinance institutions which support the poor, mostly women, with
access to loans. While in Calgary, Alex spread the word about this
poverty-alleviation tool through print, radio and television interviews
and also at other packed-room speaking engagements around the city. Entertainment wows the crowdOn
every level, it was an amazing success for RESULTS Calgary, RESULTS
Canada and for the poorest of the world who we dedicate our efforts to
support.Chris DendysExecutive Director |
MEET SADIA JAMA
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In an interview with Elizabeth Dove (RESULTS Canada's Public Engagement Organizer), University of Ottawa Group Leader Sadia Jama discusses her personal connection to Africa and poverty, her history with RESULTS, and passion and commitment to global health solutions...
1. How did you become aware of poverty issues and why did you choose to get involved?
Poverty is an issue I connect with on a personal level. My mother came to Canada in the 90s with the dream that her children would have more opportunities available to them than she had growing up in Somalia. However, as a single mother with three children, we had financial problems. Watching my mother overcome all her obstacles and raise us with very little was inspirational to me. In addition, staying in close touch with family back home (some of  which deal with poverty everyday) strengthened my commitment to help the less fortunate. I started to do my part in the fight against poverty in high school by volunteering regularly at a local food bank. I also helped run some programs for at-risk youth at a local community center. When I started university I joined the Amnesty International campus group and was active with them for three years.
Sadia at RESULTS Int'l Conference
During my volunteering with
Amnesty International, I realized
wanted to raise more awareness on poverty and all of its affiliated problems. I did an online search for organizations in Canada that tackled poverty, which led me to RESULTS Canada. I regularly attend the Ottawa community group Education & Action meetings and have started a University of Ottawa RESULTS chapter.
2. What did you find attractive about RESULTS?
I joined RESULTS because I was really impressed by the emphasis the organization puts on empowering ordinary citizens from all walks of life to exercise their personal and political power so that they can create the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty. This emphasis on ordinary people as agents of change is what hooked me!
3. What is your favourite RESULTS "moment"?
I have so many! If I had to choose one, it would my trip to the RESULTS International Conference this past July. During the presentations of all the RESULTS groups around the world, I felt a sense of being part of the global movement against poverty and all of its affiliated problems!
4. Which RESULTS issues are you most passionate about?
I think all of the issues RESULTS tackles are interconnected and need to be addressed when tackling poverty. However, the issue I am the most passionate about would be universal access to health care. I learn about health care systems and the major global diseases in my undergraduate program. As a result, a topic like health care inequality in developing countries easily grasps my attention! I am working towards being a medical expert in the area of global health.
5. What have you gained by volunteering with RESULTS?
I have gained a lot! I have learned so much on the root causes of poverty in the year and a half I have been volunteering with RESULTS. I have also become a much stronger advocate with the tools I have learned from the Ottawa group E&A meetings.
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Global Citizens learn about global poverty in La Belle Province
It
was during the fall of 2007 at the time of the National conference in
Ottawa, that the idea arose to organize the first regional meeting of
the three francophones groups and to invite outsiders from the public.
The event planned on behalf of RESULT Educational fund, would provide
attendees an opportunity to become aware of poverty issues and to
acquire a level of confidence enabling them to make a difference in our
world.
During the weekend of November 15 and 16, at the
Lanaudiere Campus of the University of Montreal in Terrebonne, Québec,
almost thirty participants registered at the Conference and about a
third of them were newcomers. Goals included forging friendship and
cooperation links, reflecting and learning about major challenges
linked to extreme poverty, such as microfinance, education and
tuberculosis. The coordinators also wished to provide tools to
participants to empower them to exert a personal and collective impact
on poverty, ever much too present in our modern world.
While
the event wasn't perfect, it remains that expectations from
participants were well satisfied and it should make us proud! Comments
such as the following say it best: Hurrah and thanks! I am returning
home very enthusiastic and happy! Thanks and I want to be very active
over the next few months!
Also hurrah to our organizers: Yvon
Groleau and Pamela Walden-Landry from the Montreal group, Paulette
LeBlanc from Quebec, Elizabeth Dove from Toronto and to our presenters,
namely Jean-François Tardif, Bruno Marquis, Denis Landry and Karine
Tardif for also contributing to the success of the event, as well as
all the participants.
It will be a pleasure to see you
revitalized, stimulated and inspired to work together to the creation
of a better world for the poorest of the planet, at conference calls,
meetings and other activities organized by RESULT Education Fund.
Yvon Dupuis
Quebec Regional Coordinator
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RECOMMENDED READING
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The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
The Big Necessity takes aim at the taboo, revealing everything that matters about how people do-and don't-deal with their own waste. Moving from the deep underground sewers of Paris, London, an d New York-an infrastructure disaster waiting to happen-to an Indian slum where ten toilets are shared by 60,000 people, Rose George stops along the way to explore the potential saviors: China's five million biogas digesters, which produce energy from waste; the heroes of third world sanitation movements; the inventor of the humble Car Loo; and the U.S. Army's personal lasers used by soldiers to zap their feces in the field.
With razor-sharp wit and crusading urgency, mixing levity with gravity, Rose George has turned the subject we like to avoid into a cause with the most serious of consequences.Many of us have a deep desire to make the world a better place, but often our good intentions are undermined by the fear that we are so insignificant nothing we can do will actually make a difference.
Review:
"This fascinating, wise, and scrupulously drawn portrait of the world and its waste will last long as a seriously important book... It manages to turn the completely unpalatable into something utterly irresistible. Rose George, a brave, compassionate, and ceaselessly impeccable reporter-and, when needed, a very funny one too-has performed for us all who care a very great service. A big necessity, indeed."
-Simon Winchester, author of The Man Who Loved China
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