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Canada is growing! We have groups across
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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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Listen in to
hear exciting guest speakers enrich our
understanding of solutions to global poverty
issues.
Tuesday Sept
7th
Sunday Oct 3rd
Sunday Nov
7th
(there is no August
call)
When:
All calls
are at 5:30 pm PT, 6:30 pm MT, 8:30 pm
ET
How:
866-327-1931
Participant
code: 6732861 (the call will be bilingual with
help of an interpreter)
Who:
Anyone interested in
putting an end to global
poverty
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Check out our
new website and advocate
tools!
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Our new
site has easy to find, up to date
information on our campaigns as well as advocacy
tools.
Featured advocacy tool: Meeting
with your MP.
This short how-to guide
tells you why MP meetings are important, tips
for getting the meeting, important stuff for
prep and follow
up.
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| Who is RESULTS
Canada? |
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 at least 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 our Grassroots Team. 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. |
Featured Letter to the
Editor
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Our
featured published Letter to the Editor
was written by Pamela
Walden-Landry of Montreal. Versions
of her letter "Seeing
children thrive is a lifelong dream" were
published in several English and French papers,
including The Kingston-Standard Whig.
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Historic RESULTS G8
Win Will Save Thousands of Mothers and
Children
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Hundreds of letters to MPs,
dozens of published letters to the editor, many
meetings with MPs, and one
important meeting with the PM himself
later... RESULTS volunteers and supporters
throughout the country are celebrating
commitments made at the G8 to improve the health
of mothers and young children.
The
initiative has each of the core elements that we
have been pushing for over the past year,
delivered at the community level, with a
commitment to measure
results.
These promised results
include: 1.3 million fewer child deaths, 64,000
fewer maternal deaths; 12 million more couples
will have access to family planning. Canada's
investment of over $1.1 billion dollars in new
money is substantial and one we need to support.
The growing global investment (now at $7.3
billion since the Summit) is something to build
on.
Click here
to read the official summit
communique.
Click here
to read our joint June 25th press release with
other coalition members on our shared
reaction.
This recent success was
built on years of hard work by our volunteers to
put children at the forefront of the aid
agenda.
Our work is not
over: we need to ensure this
money finds its way to proven, cost-effective
initiatives.
Read our
July action outlining next steps YOU can
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Microcredit Motion a
Landmark Achievement
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On June 8, 2010,
Liberal Member of Parliament John McCallum
introduced a House of Commons motion calling on
the government to increase their funding to
microfinance institutions that target the very
poor in the least developed countries. This
motion, the first of its kind, received
all-party support, including endorsements from
Minister Bev Oda, Minister Jim Flaherty and the
leaders of all three Opposition parties.
Mr. McCallum attended the
Microcredit Regional Summit in Kenya with
RESULTS Canada in April. This motion is a
great opportunity in our continued work on
microfinance to ensure that CIDA increases its
investments in microfinance overall and
prioritizes microcredit for those living on less
than a $1.25 a day as part of its economic
growth platform |
Tuberculosis
victories!
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In
March 2009 RESULTS Canada helped secure $127
million for TB prevention, diagnostics and
treatment. The total amount approved for
funding in the first round this Spring was
US$18.4 million in 19 countries and recipients
of the funding include RESULTS Action Affiliate
partner AMREF Canada for lifesaving projects in
Uganda.
In
May, after years of strong advocacy by RESULTS
volunteers around the world, the World Bank
approved a new $63 million dollar project to
strengthen a network of TB and public health
laboratories in 4 African countries.
This
June, RESULTS Canada assisted in the
coordination of an all-party HIV/AIDS and TB
(HAT) Parliamentary Caucus dedicated to
developing a better understanding of the needs
of people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS or
Tuberculosis globally. The parliamentary caucus
will be co-chaired by Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla,
and Lois Brown from the Conservative Party, who
have both participated in RESULTS Canada
parliamentary delegations to developing
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African entertainers
headline
RESULTS Toronto fundraiser August
20th
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"Culture Vibe
Fundraiser" features:
Congolese Gospel
Group (Génération Des Vrais Adorateurs)
Spoken Word Artist (Yusra Khogali)
Jazz
Singer (Luwam)
Silent Auction featuring art,
tickets to local attractions
Hors d'oeuvres
will be served & Cash Bar
Door
prize draw - Two tickets to Toronto City Lights
Cruises
Tickets
$25
Friday, August 20,
2010 - Starts at 8 pm
Peridot resto/lounge
- 81 Bloor Street East
To
secure your ticket please contact:
Tel:
647-883-0701 or email
Sarah
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RESULTS releases two
groundbreaking report on World Bank's poor TB
and Education performance
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June 9th, the ACTION
project of RESULTS International released "Aid
Without Impact" - a report on the World Bank
and its sector-wide approach (SWAps) to health
programming. ACTION project's analysis found
that although well-intentioned, SWAps have
failed. 20 SWAps were measured against TB
indicators for the report.
A 2nd
new report by RESULTS "World
Bank Financing for the Education - More or less
for the poor in IDA 16?" finds troubling
trends in World Bank education lending for the
poorest countries - especially in Africa where
its proportion of education financing was less
than 15% in 2009, despite being home to 32
million of the world's 72 million out-of-school
children.
June 19-22 a Canadian
delegation of 12 RESULTS Canada volunteers a
Members of our Canadian
delegation in the World Bank
lobby
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staff went to the Washington DC RESULTS
International
Conference and ended their trip advocating
powerfully at the World Bank for the
implementation of the recommended changes found
in these reports.
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Toronto volunteers empower
others at G8/G20 People's Summit
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The People's Summit is
an opportunity for NGOs and everyday people to
discuss ways to create a better world. The
Toronto RESULTS group took advantage of this
opportunity to present a
Volunteers at People's
Summit Info Table
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workshop on writing letters to the editor,
grounded in the need for new financing for the
Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and
Malaria. At least one attendee was
published and the RESULTS workshop received very
favourable press in NOW
magazine. |
Gatineau volunteers
'Pedal Against Poverty'
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Some
of the participating
cyclists
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Subheading
This first-time fundraiser benefited from
sunny weather and was a terrific success, thanks
to our dedicated volunteers. Proceeds from
the July 11th event went to support RESULTS
Canada, Diku Dilenga (Canada) and Oxfam
Canada.
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Invest in healthy families
and thriving communities.
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to end poverty. DONATE
TODAY.
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With your support,
RESULTS Canada will continue to advocate for the
resources that allow local and international
agencies to work on the ground in the developing
world to improve the health and livelihoods of
families. Your donations help us:
- Advocate for quality health care and
education to ensure all families have their
fundamental needs met
- Empower women and their families by
advocating for increased microcredit funding for
the very poor
- Inspire action that will create millions of
pathways out of poverty around the world
- Train hundreds of volunteers from across the
country to educate the media, their MPs, and
their communities about the role they can play
in ending poverty
In a world with
abundant wealth, resources and knowledge, why do
millions of people still live in desperate
poverty? Help RESULTS Canada create a world free
of poverty and needless suffering.
Donate
securely online now.
If you are a
current monthly donor and would like to increase
your support, please call Darlene at
613-562-9240.
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