Teams

A team of 16 plan to return to the Dominican Republic from Ottawa. The medical team will be working alongside a Dominican medical team in partnership with Proinfancia to serve the surrounding communities in the Vasca area. Additional to the medical clinics, the team will also be doing medical home visits to the sick and elderly, providing food for a community lunch program, engaged in Days for Girls women hygiene teaching and distribution, and more!

In November, Voice of Hope will travel to Kakamega and Nairobi, Kenya to continue their partnership with our partner Everlyne Imbenzi. A team of 8 women hope to be involved in women's health and safety teaching, widow care, nutrition and sanitation teaching, as well as participate in a few community development projects.

November Team
The Ending Violence Education Team is heading to Uganda to partner with Peace Portal Uganda, visiting Jinja, Mpigi, and the Ssesse Islands. Together, they’ll deliver workshops to empower local leaders in violence prevention. The team will support groups, lead self-esteem workshops in schools, and conduct home visits to uplift community members. This initiative aims to foster resilience, build self-worth, and create lasting solutions, working toward a world free from interpersonal violence.

June Team
In June 2024, the EVE team traveled to the Dominican Republic to work with Hungry For Life’s partners—Pro Infancia, Empowering Action, and Fudesa Ministry near Santo Domingo. Their goal was to foster safe environments where violence is not normalized by empowering local leaders to transform their communities. The team held sessions on violence awareness and prevention with community leaders, taught in schools, and supported care projects for at-risk families.

The Ending Violence Education Team is embarking on an impactful journey to Uganda to work alongside Peace Portal Uganda. The team will be visiting 3 communities, Jinja, Mpigi and the Ssesse Islands and together, they will deliver anti-violence education and advocacy workshops, aimed at empowering local leaders with tools to combat violence within their own communities. The team will support existing groups, conduct self-esteem workshops in schools, and encourage community members through home visits. This initiative is focused on fostering resilience, building self-worth, and creating sustainable solutions that inspire and uplift the entire community. The EVE team envisions a world where interpersonal violence is no longer commonplace.

In October, a team of 12 from Westbow Capital hopes to travel to Kenya led by HFL leader Jason Krul. During this trip, the team plans to visit a variety of projects that have been funded by Westbow over the past several years in Nairobi, Siaya and Yogo. The team will also participate in some widow visits, visit a children's home and see the completion of the high school in Siaya.

In October 2024, Tenth Church is facilitating a Justice Journey to Cambodia, with the purpose for everyone participating to grow deeper in spiritual formation through healthy relationships, and wider through giving time to serve others. The focus is on developing the capacity of local and global partners. This year's justice journey has three objectives:

1. Redemptive Entrepreneur Training and Coaching: Cambodian leaders connected to Tenth Church with a 3-day business and spiritual accelerator, enriching their understanding of redemptive social entrepreneurship and helping their ventures become more sustainable and impactful.

2. Partnership with VillageWorks: The team will conduct workshops with VillageWorks, a social enterprise that empowers people with disabilities by creating sustainable livelihoods through upcycled and recycled handcrafted goods. Our goal is to strengthen this important partnership and support their innovative efforts.

3. Strategic and Relational Support: The team will offer coaching and strategic planning to existing partners, helping them to scale their innovative ventures and achieve their missions.

The YAC team will be travelling to Ensenada, Mexico and serving at the El Refugio (The Refuge), a safe house for at-risk girls ranging in ages from 6–18. During the week, the team will be living life with the girls and also participating with in various other ministry work with the girls. These Ministry projects include visiting a rehab centre, a migrant camp, seniors home, and youth centre. The team will also be spending time with the community kids, sharing bible stores, playing games and having fun with crafts.

June 2024

Our Dominican Partner Proinfancia is organized a 3-day summer camp for 70 girls from the Batey villages Vasca and Paraiso.

The girls in those communities grow up in difficult living conditions, which makes them more at risk of teen pregnancy. GIVE sent a team of ladies under the leadership of Claudybel Gordon to work alongside Proinfancia in running this camp.

November 2024

A team of 16 plan to return to the Dominican Republic from Ottawa. The medical team will be working alongside a Dominican medical team in partnership with Proinfancia to serve the surrounding communities in the Vasca area. Additional to the medical clinics, the team will also be doing medical home visits to the sick and elderly, providing food for a community lunch program, engaged in Days for Girls women hygiene teaching and distribution, and more!

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In March 2024, a team of 12 people from the Calvin Christian Community Group travelled to the Dominican Republic to partner with Carlos Pimentel.

The team worked on a variety of hands-on projects in the different communities where Haitians and Dominicans live in poverty and don't have access to many basic necessities.

Coming alongside the local church and leaders in these communities, the team helped at the local school, construction, maintenance, and the distribution and training of Days For Girls kits.

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