Month: September 2015

Ideas: “From the Trenches – Just Trying to Help,“ CBC Radio, 15 September 2015

“The borderlands that separate genuine helpfulness from meddling—or worse—are an unruly region in the realm of thought…riddled with questions of consent and of who-knows-best. This episode is called Just Trying to Help and it takes us to a small, densely populated island in the Caribbean, where wealthy foreigners have been ‘just trying to help’ for decades: the troubled nation of Haiti.

It is the latest in our series Ideas from the Trenches where producers Tom Howell and Nicola Luksic showcase the work of PhD students across the country. Marylynn Steckley is a PhD graduate from Western University. She spent 6 years in Haiti with her family both as an NGO worker and researcher.” 55 minutes. SSHRC Storyteller winner.”

You can listen on the CBC website here.


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Virtual Visit to the Offices of the Canadian Hunger Foundation on the Eve of its Closing, August 2015

Carleton PhD candidate Will Tait visited the CHF building just before it closed. Click here for slide show:

House of the Canadian Hunger Foundation, Chapel street, Ottawa

And here is the post announcing the closing.  Here is an article in Embassy on the forces that lead to the closing: “Anatomy if an NGO closure“.

Library and Archives Canada hold the CHF fonds.  Here is the Description of the fonds. They will collect the remaining archives.  The CNHH is working with them on a project to rescue and identify a large collection of unidentified pictures.

The Freedom from Hunger Project commemorates some of their history.

And Matthew Bunch, member of the network and historian, wrote his doctoral thesis on the topic:  “All Roads Lead to Rome: Canada, the Freedom From Hunger Campaign, and the Rise of NGOs, 1960-1980“, University of Waterloo, 2007.  He has posted “A Short History of the Canadian Hunger Foundation” on this website.