Of real concern

(Picture of Nyima with her mother Abee) Life for most appears to be one big “worry”.  It is no wonder that for many, life feels like a treadmill that continues to accelerate as one runs to keep up. 

From privilege to entitlement

A sense of entitlement appears to have taken over modern society, especially among those most wealthy and powerful.  Responsibility has been delegated to those with the least or without. In other eras, everyone had responsibility and those who enjoyed the greatest privileges had the most responsibilities. 
Gambian Women Farmers

Gambian Women Farmers and Solar Irrigation

(Picture-women farmers clearing brush) One of the companies that I am advising in my current assignment in The Gambia is GAM-Solar Energy and Engineering Ltd. has just completed a large project creating 20 community gardens complete with Solar Powered Irrigation.  10 of these gardens have small processing facilities which eventually will be powered by solar energy as well. The gardens without a […]

Creating a new economy

The time has come to recognize that in the world the economy has collapsed and a new economy must be created. The old economy was created after the great depression and World War 11 and was built on world reconstruction and an industrial model that spawned the greatest innovation, technological and social development in human […]

Humanness – vested with the poor

(Picture-making a contribution at a naming ceremony) I am writing, once again from The Gambia, a now familiar window on the world for me. One could become quite cynical about modern society when you look at the greed and corruption in politics, business and those with wealth.  It appears that there is race on to […]

A growing human scrap pile

(Picture of my friend Omar – retirement in Gambia was not easy) The recent scandal involving one of Canada’s banks outsourcing jobs at the expense of their own employees epitomizes the societal deconstruction that is taking place.  The fact that government is doing the same is most disturbing.  This phenomenon is not unique to Canada, […]

More People and Faces of my time in Quebec

(Picture-with CT and GT Staff) During my five years working in Quebec with the National Committee for the English Linguistic Minority of Quebec  it was good fortune to work with many people from the communities, towns and cities of that province as well as representatives of the Canadian Government.  This was a unique Federal and […]

People and faces of my time in Quebec

(Picture – Conducting a workshop on the use of mapping in development) I spent five years working in Quebec where I assisting in setting up eleven Community Economic Development and Employability Committees across the province.  These are some of the pictures of people with whom I worked – there are many more which will be […]

More People and Faces of Ukraine

(Picture-with Natalia, Nataly and Matvey at train station) Here are a few more of the people whom I met during my time in Ukraine.  Over my four years there I met and was befriended by so many that it humbled me. One of my friends said to me upon my departure “we are a different […]