Foreign Affairs committee  I could share with you about a program that we worked on in Ethiopia called youth-headed household. It was designed for youths who had basically lost both of their parents to AIDS. We implemented a 10-week training program for the youths who were between 17 and 20. The youths wer

Foreign Affairs committee  Our focus has been on implementing programs to educate the communities. An example I can give you is a program that we've implemented in conjunction with Hincks-Dellcrest out of Toronto. It's a program designed to help parents play with children. As we're teaching them how to pla

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll give you an example of a program that we implemented in Nicaragua. As you know, our focus is working through communities, and there was an issue of gang violence and lots of fights in the community. We set up a youth group and we educated them on the benefits of having a lif

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for having us. Thank you for the opportunity to address the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. As was mentioned earlier, I would like to acknowledge the presence of my colleague, Sarah Stevenson, who is online with me today f