Always trying to figure out ways of increasing public awareness of Adopt a Village in Laos, I went online recently and googled Lao community organizations in Ontario. My search didn’t [...]
Last week the Canadian-based humanitarian organization, Adopt a Village in Laos, was recognized by the government as a charity. This week it became official when Steve Rutledge (president of the [...]
As we continue to grow our selection of products and range of communities and cultures we work with, Shopanthropic is excited to be collaborating with artisans in Nepal through a recently formed partnership with [...]
Working in close conjunction with Steve Rutledge and Mike Yap, the founders of Adopt a Village in Laos, a not-for-profit Canadian registered organization (#1755378), I have been volunteering my services [...]
2011 has certainly been an active year within the microfinance industry, and not necessarily for the right reasons. It brings to mind endless revelations and discussions within the media on [...]
Climate change has given us plenty to gripe about during those depressing coffee table discussions about the state of the world. Personally, it has affected me in a very [...]
In the quest for increasing public awareness of Adopt a Village in Laos, I created this T-shirt in forest green as one way to advertise this organization’s existence to the [...]
Mumbai, who’d rather be addressed by its Victorian moniker Bombay, is a city immortalized and romanticized in many a film reel. Bombay is where dreams are realized, or crushed, as [...]
Farming is the most common form of work outside the industrialized nations, and on every continent there are changemaker organizations working to help farmers – help with their resources, their [...]
At the beginning of the week, I submitted my designs for an Adopt a Village in Laos T-shirt to Has Marketing, which focuses exclusively on designing and producing promotional products from [...]
On Saturday, June 18, I did another presentation of ‘To Laos with Love: Presentation Series’ on the patio of Java Jive, my favourite neighbourhood cafe, where I am conducting these [...]
She was one of at least 40 landless women who demanded to meet with us that day. They had heard that we would be visiting their village to talk with [...]
On Canadian Thanksgiving weekend 2010, I was privileged to attend an Adopt a Village in Laos fundraiser, hosted by Steve Rutledge and Mike Yap, at the historic and beautifully restored [...]
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