Haiti

Arcade Fire's Win Butler DJing Dudebox Party To Support Kanpe Charity

Arcade Fire's Win Butler DJing Dudebox Party To Support Kanpe Charity Party people at a previous Dudebox event — photo credit: DudeboxWith all the high-gloss, high-profile, high-rolling stars, athletes and big spenders rolling into Toronto for NBA All-Star Game events, the best party of the weekend just might be the decidedly underground and not-…

Peacekeepers Doc Director Follows Three Muslim Police Officers In Haiti

Peacekeepers Doc Director Follows Three Muslim Police Officers In Haiti A Journey Of A Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers is a documentary film that follows Farida Parveen, Mousumi Sultana and Rehana Parvin, three Muslim female police officers from Bangladesh, as they spend a year in Haiti as part of an all-female peacekeeping force sent from their country to support MINUSTAH (the United Nations…

Actress Olivia Wilde Recounts Work For Artists For Peace And Justice

Actress Olivia Wilde Recounts Work For Artists For Peace And Justice Actress Olivia Wilde in Haiti with non-profit Artists For Peace And Justice.She played a surgeon on the Fox TV medical drama House, but New York-born actress Olivia Wilde has participated in the real thing in the most dire circumstances in her beloved Haiti, through her work for Artists…

Arcade Fire-boosted Young Rock Band Raises Money For Cancer & Haiti

Arcade Fire-boosted Young Rock Band Raises Money For Cancer & Haiti The Brothers Dubé in Haiti. They would spend up to eight hours a day in the back of that pick up just kicking back and playing tunes and writing musicThe Brothers Dubé impressed Montreal’s Arcade Fire enough for the Grammy Award-winning band to jam with them, but when they discovered…

Tom Cochrane: Humanitarian Award Recipient Recounts Poignant Experiences In Africa

Tom Cochrane: Humanitarian Award Recipient Recounts Poignant Experiences In Africa Tom Cochrane in Kenya, 2006.Noted Canadian singer-songwriter Tom Cochrane has been a lot of places and seen a lot of things, but one of his most poignant experiences occurred when he spent two-and-a-half weeks traveling through Africa on behalf of World Vision in 1989 that…

Jimmy Carter's Habitat For Haiti: Warner Chappell Music Exec Vivian Barclay Discovers Progress First-Hand

Jimmy Carter's Habitat For Haiti: Warner Chappell Music Exec Vivian Barclay Discovers Progress First-Hand Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks with Warner Chappell Music Canada GM Vivian Barcley on the flight to Haiti for his Habitat for Humanity’s Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project.Haiti has been battered. Almost three years on from the…

Jared Leto Photographs Hardship And Hope In Haiti For Charity Book

Jared Leto Photographs Hardship And Hope In Haiti For Charity Book Jared Leto took on a multi-national record company that sued his rock band 30 Seconds To Mars for $30 million, but the devastation that remains in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake that killed 300,000 people and affected 3 million is a task that requires the whole world to chip in to fix…

Corey Hart And Marie-Christine Support Neurosurgeon's Project Medishare For Haiti

Corey Hart And Marie-Christine Support Neurosurgeon's Project Medishare For Haiti Singer-songwriter Corey Hart first met Project Medishare for Haiti co-founder Dr. Barth Green when he underwent cervical disk fusion surgery by the world renowned Miami neurosurgeon. At the time, Hart had just signed Montreal singer Marie-Christine Depestre to his…

Humanitarian Mission In Haiti Drastically Changed For Kingston Woman

Humanitarian Mission In Haiti Drastically Changed For Kingston Woman Tammy treating for tenia versicolor, a skin disease caused by fungusTammy Babcock already had a trip planned to Haiti this month in anticipation of her latest humanitarian trip to the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. That was before the 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck,…

Planning On Donating? Check Out CRA’s Database Of Legit Charities

Planning On Donating? Check Out CRA’s Database Of Legit Charities Many of you are donating to the relief efforts in Haiti and will likely go with the Canadian Red Cross Society, but to avoid being scammed by sound-alike charity names and smaller local initiatives that may not be honourable, Canada Revenue Agency has a directory which allows you to put the name in the search engine and find out…

Bill Clinton: ‘If We All Just Did A Little Bit’

Bill Clinton: ‘If We All Just Did A Little Bit’ Photo credit: Clinton FoundationFormer U.S. President Bill Clinton has helped change the lives of hundreds of millions since leaving office in January, 2001. Through his William Jefferson Clinton Foundation, he’s responsible for bringing affordable AIDS medication to 70 countries, supporting zero-emission…