About – World Neighbours Canada

How to help:

Volunteer

World Neighbours Canada relies on volunteers for all of its activities. If you can help with any of the following things we would love to hear from you:

organizing visits to schools and clubs when we have guests from overseas.

helping with fundraising events, such as fasts in secondary schools.

copying letters, stuffing envelopes, putting on stamps, etc.

We also organize occasional study tours to the countries where we provide support. If you are interested let us know and we will tell you what is involved. We do not send volunteers overseas to work on our behalf.

Visit Our Program Areas

Our program directors occasionally travel to the program areas to oversee the project. If you are interested in being a program donor, you may be interested in coming along for a visit.

Please understand you will be expected to pay your own way. Remember, we have no paid staff and low, low overhead, so we are able to send 100% of your donation to be used where it matters most.

Donate

Because our overhead costs are very low, we send 100% of your donation to the field programs. (Our minimal administrative costs are covered by our directors.)

World Neighbours Canada Society was founded in B.C. in 1989, and currently supports village-based integrated development programs in Honduras, Nepal and Burkina Faso.

World Neighbours Canada is a non-sectarian organization. We are a federally registered Canadian charity (BN 89212 8646 RR 0001).

About World Neighbours Canada

World Neighbours Canada (WNC) was founded in southern B.C in 1989 and our programs are currently active in three areas:

• Nepal (Asia)
• Burkina Faso (Africa)
• Honduras (Central America)

The programs work to lead people to be reliant on their own powers and resources.

That means we help people in the program areas analyze and solve their own problems, and then we encourage and train leaders local to the project areas to carry out their own solutions (with our financial support).

Nothing is done “for” the people, or “to” the people in these countries – rather, the people make improvements on their own. We think that really increases the potential for lasting change.

All of the money raised by WNC from individual donors goes to projects in the program areas. Our organization is run by volunteers who work out of their homes. Our modest administrative costs are covered by grants and by donations from our directors.

We are non-sectarian and support people of all faith traditions, and are a federally registered charity (BN 89212 8646 RR 0001).

World Neighbours Canada was started in Oliver in 1989. The first Board of Directors included local residents Graem Nelson, Marion Boyd, Vivian Calder and Michael Newman.

You will find the current board here.