Last week an impressive group of young future leaders descended upon Canada’s capital to take part in the third annual Youth Innovation Summit. Hosted by the United Nations Association in Canada (UNA-Canada), the British Council in Canada and the British High...
As part of its continuing fight against single-use plastics, SodaStream opened its first Canadian refilling station last week. The new high-tech 18,500-square-foot facility in Mississauga will enable the company to eliminate over 200 annual trips between Toronto and...
I was born in Mali, West Africa, and spent time during my childhood in Benin, Chad, Burkina Faso and Canada. My Dad worked for the United Nations and my Mum was a midwife – and both were driven by a passion to make a difference to people’s lives. Growing up in...
The achievement gap is a phrase used to describe the disparity in standardized academic performance that exists between groups of students, most often between the wealthy and impoverished, white students and students of color, and in some cases, between males and...
The PepsiCo Foundation recently announced that it will provide $10 million in funding to jumpstart the “All In On Recycling” challenge, making it easier for 25 million families across the country to recycle bottles and cans. But nonprofit corporate...
Here at the Belu office we’re on countdown to September when the Social Enterprise World Forum ‘comes home’ to Edinburgh where it all began in 2008. Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend Hong Kong in 2016, or Christchurch in 2017, so I can’t wait to meet up to share...
