World Neighbours Canada Partners & Programs

Three program areas

World Neighbours Canada is currently active in three program areas: Nepal in Asia, Burkina Faso in Africa and Honduras in Central America. In these areas, each with their distinct language and culture, World Neighbours Canada depends upon a trusted local partner organization, staffed and run by local people, who implement the actual programs directly with the village participants.

Nepal

While focusing on water systems and sanitary toilets World Neighbours Canada's funding is a small part of a much wider program by our partner Tamakoshi Sewa Samiti more commonly referred to as TSS. Located in Ramechhap District in Eastern Nepal, TSS delivers integrated development services that include health, sanitation, credit unions and rural livings. TSS's extension into surrounding villages uses the water systems funded by World Neighbours Canada to enlist villages in a process that gradually introduces the other aspects of their program. Read more...

Honduras

Programs by World Neighbours Canada's Central American partner Vecinos Mundiales Mesoamerica focus on marginalized village areas and last from six to ten years. The first few years of the program involves developing in each village a core of volunteers composed of early adopters who develop skills in health, agriculture, micro-credit and community. The current program, La Esperanza, is into its third year with a group of ten coffee growing villages in the remote mountains of Eastern Honduras. Read more...

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country of West Africa, north of Ghana.  Called “Upper Volta” in colonial times, most of the country is in the Sahel, the wide band of semi-arid grasslands that separates the Sahara from the jungle.  In July 2008, WNCanada began its sponsorship of a new development program in eastern Burkina Faso, in the province of Fada N’Gourma.  APDC is a local NGO that grew out of programs of World Neighbors in the late 80’s and 90’s.  Thanks to its work in soil and water conservation, short cycle crops and green manure technologies, villages in the province of Gna Gna that used to have food for 5-6 months per year now have food security 12 months a year with enough food left over to sell. Read more...