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Earthquake in Haiti
On January 12, 2010, Haiti was victim to a violent earthquake that shook the capital of Port-au-Prince and to a lesser extent other regions of the country. CESO|SACO staff and volunteers are thinking of Haiti and its population during this traumatic time. (Read more...)
How do you talk about hope? In a camp in Georgia, you start with people who lost everything.
This November, the Georgian Association of Women in Business greeted Canadian volunteer Rheba Adolph in a village about eight kilometers from bombed-out Gori, Georgia. Adolph walked into a one-room house and faced a group of 15 volunteers, all of whom were learning to support some of the thousands of traumatized people who had been displaced during last year’s war, and she told them that their task would be near impossible.
They were standing on a grassy floor inside the bunker-like house, one light dangling from the ceiling, bugs crawling through cracks in the walls. “This will be the hardest thing you’ll ever do,” she said. (Read more...)
In Canada and overseas, CESO volunteers provide advisory and mentorship services to:
- Businesses
- Small and medium enterprises
- Entrepreneurs
- Aboriginal communities
- Municipalities and other government bodies
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