Global Stewardship News & Events
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The Fall 2010 application deadline for the Global Stewardship program has now passed. Late applications are always welcome, and will be reviewed depending on availability of seats in the program. For more information, contact Cam Sylvester, csylvest@capilanou.ca or Jan Gillanders, jgilland@capilanou.ca |
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Recent Global Stew grads with instructor, Jeanne Mikita at Spring 2010 convocation. |
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Essay Contest Winners |
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The Global Stewardship Program and its partner, Lattitude Canada , are pleased to announce the winners of the "Is Water the New Oil?" contest. This year the prize will be  shared between Nathan Laronde of Handsworth Secondary in North Vancouver, and the team of Adam Gamble and Kyle Tollefson from Sheldon-Williams Collegiate in Regina, Saskatchewan. |
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"We would like to thank everyone who entered the contest, and all the high school  Global Issues teachers who encouraged their students to do so," said Cam Sylvester, program convenor for Global Stewardship. "In particular, we would thank Ms. Helen Sukovieff who spearheaded the flood of entries from Sheldon-Williams."
Click HERE to read Nathan Laronde's essay. Adam Gamble and Kyle Tollefson's winning video can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCq6IV9TW94 |
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Krissi Bucholtz, Year 5,(second from the left) recently received a $500 grant from Global Agents for Change for her work in Sierra Leone. Read more about Krissi and her project HERE. |
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Ella Batten, Year 6 was awarded a $1000 seed grant from Ashoka for her Public Engagement Activity for Global Stew. In her own words:
On March 5th, at Templeton High School, a panel of 6 judges was assembled to adjudicate idea pitches brought forward by Vancouver youth who were looking for seed money to start up their project. I was fortunate enough to be awarded a grant, and I am now working on getting my event completely up and running! 
My project is a benefit event for the not-for profit organization imagine1day. imagine1day does amazing sustainable work in Ethiopia with children's education and is working towards the goal of providing quality education for every Ethiopian child by 2020. OneNight for 1Day is featuring an array of talented young artists from Vancouver celebrating creativity and performance art, with proceeds going towards imagine1day. This event is going to be a celebration of our community and our artists. My event was awarded the grant, and I am now working to get my event completely up and running.
For more information about OneNight for 1Day check out :
http://blog.imagine1day.org/2010/03/10/creatributor-ella-batten-her-onenight-for-1day/ http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104907409542986 |
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Year 2 Global Stew, Drew Stewart, and his love Sophie Low-Beer celebrate the arrival of their son with daughter Ella. Drew is presently in London studying for his masters at the London School of Economics. Congratulations Sophie, Drew and Ella. |
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Year 6 Global Stew, Charlotte Hill, was selected for one of five Youth Challenge International (http://yci.org) bursaries from applicants across Canada. For more, click here. |
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Year 4 Global Stew alumna, Rachel Moxham, was selected as one of 8 young British Columbians to be profiled for International Development Week sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
You can find her inspiring story and video profile on the website for the BC Council for International Cooperation, which represents international development agencies based in the province.
http://bccic.ca/Rachel_Moxham
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Finding Coral: Our Journey to the Bottom of the Sea
Date: November 19th, 2009
Time: 11:30-13:00
Place: Cedar Building, Room 148. |
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On June 8th, 2009 Jennifer Lash, Executive Director of the Living Oceans Society, led the Finding Coral Expedition on a journey to the bottom of the sea on Canada’s Pacific coast in search of deep sea corals. Piloting a one person submarine,  Jennifer dived to depths of over 500 meters and saw giant coral forests, darting schools of fish, and the seafloor carpeted in brittle sea stars. Now you can hear Jennifer’s stories and see pictures and videos of her adventure, and find out why it is crucial that we protect coral and deep sea ecosystems. |
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The Biology Department and Global Stewardship Program at Capilano University are co-sponsoring this public lecture. Jennifer's presentation contains a message about the importance of our oceans’ health to all Canadians, and the importance of protecting coral and the deep sea ecosystem. The presentation will be followed by a 20 minute question and answer period. |
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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER TO SPEAK AT CAPILANO UNIVERSITY
Talk postponed because of visa issues. New date to be announced. |
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The impact of climate change on Africa is devastating, and particularly so for African woman. Grace Akumu, lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 prize with former U.S. vice president Al Gore, will speak passionately on these topics - and Africa's role at the upcoming UN climate change conference. |
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 Location: Capilano U.
Library Building, Room 322
Date: October 22, 2009
Time: 7:30 PM
The lecture is sponsored by the Women Studies department at the university and is part of the department's Hon Thomas A. Dohm Q.C. lecture series. Co-sponsors for the event are the Resilient People and Climate Change conference and Cap U's Global Stewardship Program.
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For more information on the Resilient People and Climate Change conference please visit http://www.resilientpeople.org/
For a copy of event poster, please click here. |
STEWS IN THE NEWS |
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 Global Stews staged a flash mob at MP Andrew Saxton's office to put pressure on the federal government to meet its responsibilities at the Copenhagen Conference on climate change. The pledge states that the signer will pass Bill C-311, the "Climate Change Accountability Act", which sets hard, science-based targets for emission reductions. The Flash Mob was organised through the Tck Tck Tck and KYOTOplus campaigns with the goal of having Mr. Saxton sign the KYOTOplus Politician's Pledge. Flash Mob was one of 2300 events taking place around the world designed to show our political leaders that we want action on climate change now.
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| Click here for a video of the event http://www.bclocalnews.com/greater_vancouver/northshoreoutlook/news/The_global_climate_wake-up_call.html |
2nd Year Global Stew Kasha Butler does volunteer work in Uganda. Read more. |
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Global Youth Townhall on Climate Change |
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| On August 20th, 2009 Capilano University and the Global Stewardship program played host to Canadian youth participating in an international UN Conference. 5 young people from the Greater Vancouver Area used video webcast technology to participate in the United Nations Environment Program’s ‘Global Youth Townhall on Climate Change’. Participants from 15 cities across the world were linked via the internet. England, India, Mexico, Brazil, America, Australia & Thailand were all represented. |
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Zapton and friends, who gathered at Capilano University in North Vancouver represented Canada. |
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Via a live video link the Canadian contingent joined over 600 children & youth from 106 countries to draft a message calling on world leaders to seal the deal on climate change at the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December. |
imagine1day |
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| UPDATE: Global Stewardship alumni, Rachel Moxham, arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia on August 13th having cycled across Canada. Moxham left from Vancouver on May 31st and travelled the 6690km in order to raise funds and awareness for imagine1day- a Vancouver based organization aimed at providing primary education for children in Ethiopia. |
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Second Year Global Stewardship Program student, Rachel Moxham, is cycling from Vancouver to Halifax this summer to support the local charity, imagine1day. Imagine1day focuses on primary education in Ethiopia. It was started by Chip and Shannon Wilson, founders of lululemon Athletica. Read more. |
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You can watch a video about why Rachel chose to ride across Canada at by clicking here
Article about Rachel: http://www.soonews.ca/viewarticle.php? id=21493 |
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Year 1 Global Stewardship alumna, Caity Sackeroff (shown at a Global Stew sponsored conference on Canada's future in Africa) was awarded the University Medal in International Development Studies at the graduation ceremonies at Dalhousie University this year.
Caity is also a finalist in the YMCA "Power of Peace" awards which will be awarded in the fall. Earlier this spring she was selected for one of the highly coveted Aga Khan Foundation internships, which will find her working on development projects in Zanzibar next year. Congrats Caity! |
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Year 1 colleague James Haga was a finalist for this year's Rhodes Scholarship. He is now in Africa for the year working on projects for Engineers Without Borders.
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Year 2 alumnus Drew Stewart received the 2008 Sir Winston Churchill Essay Contest Winner for his essay "Celebrity Led Humanitarian Interventions." Drew, an honours student in SFU's International Studies Program, was selected for the highly regarded DESTIN Development Management program at the London School of Economics in the fall. |
Ashoka Foundation's Changemakers Site |
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The Global Stewardship Program has been selected as a featured project for the global relaunch of the Ashoka Foundation's Changemakers site. "The Ashoka Foundation is recognized as the world leader in building support networks for social enterprises," said program convenor Cam Sylvester. "We expect traffic to our own site to increase tremendously as a result, and we're looking forward to building more partnerships worldwide. It's quite an honour."
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Earlier this year, Year 5 Stewie, Krista Cameron, was awarded an Ashoka Foundation Changemakers grant for the organization she created in the downtown east side of Vancouver, where she teaches dance to kids from the neighbourhood. Go to the Changemakers website at http://www.changemakers.com/ Global Stew's link is found under groups, and you can read about Krista under "About Us, Read More."
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Year 4 Stewies at the
Pemberton goal-setting
retreat with Sapna from
Imagine1Day and
Lacey from LuLu Lemon.
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Homeless Week Fundraiser |
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The Global Stews were key players in the recent Homeless Week fundraiser for Covenant
House and the Urban Native Youth Association. Read about them in the Northshore Outlook at: http://www.bclocalnews.com/greater_vancouver/northshoreoutlook/community/41447257.html
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Yr 5 Stews enjoying a break
from their Orientation Day hike
to Quarry Rock in Deep Cove.
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Global Stew Alumni, Bronwyn, officially sworn in as a Senate Page
Way To Go! Global Stews acknowledged at Outstanding Student Luncheon Capilano University February 2007
James Haga, Year 1, with friends in Kakamega, Kenya (December 2006). James was selected for a CIDA internship with ACCES in Kenya after graduating from the Global Stewardship Program.
The Global Stews For Guatemala students were honoured by the UN Association and the Unitarian Church with the John Gibbard Award, recognizing "young people working for humanity and a better world. " Pictured below are three of the Global Stewardship students who went to Guatemala to build a new preschool-- Felipe Simoes, Jessie Bemister, and Amanda Earle -- along with program convenor, Cam Sylvester, and Dr. Jennifer Wade from the United Nations Association.
The Global Stewardship Program is honoured to announce our new agreement with the Free The Children and Leaders Today programs. Marc Kielburger, Executive Director of the programs, was on campus on October 20, 2006 to give an inspiring talk about service, and to sign the agreement. From now on, students who complete a Free the Children or Leaders Today program after graduating from high school will receive credit for two courses (Global Stewardship 101 and 201) once they enter the Global Stewardship Program. This is similar to other agreements signed with Katimavik, CUSO, and Canada World Youth, and recongizes the tremendous amount of education that goes on in these service learning organizations.
The 2nd Annual Make Poverty HIstory March and Rally on October 14th, 2006 was a tremendous success. Thanks for all who turned out in white to march or set up tables at the art gallery. Thanks as well to the speakers, who included Shane Simpson, MLA, (NDP: Vancouver-Hastings); Bill Siksay, MP (NDP: Burnaby-Douglas); Stephen Owen, MP (Lib: Vancouver Quadra) and Robert Fox, Executive Director of Oxfam Canada.
Cap's Magnificent 7 who organized last year's rally.
Shawn (Year 3) leads the march down Burrard Street in October 2006 (Photo Credit: Shaina Pennington, Year 2)
Global Stews Year One at Pemberton Retreat
Looking Smart: Laura Wallace, Rain De Guzman and Suzie Dunn with faculty members Cam Sylvester and Jeanne Mikita at the May 2006 Grad.
In the spring, 2006 Global Stews raised over $30,000 money for Casa Guatemala. They used this money to build a new preschool. They're planning to build another building this year. If you want more information on this project and how you might help, go to www.capilanou.ca/globalstewardship
Global Stews raised over $11,000 at a dinner and silent auction for the Casa Guatemala Orphanage. All dressed up (from left to right) are First Year Stewies Claire, Diana, Andrew, Amanda, Jessie, Carly, and Eva.
