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Author Biography: Alyssa McDonald

Alyssa McDonald is in her first-year of Creative Communications at Red River College and her third year at the University of Winnipeg for Communications and Human Rights and Global Studies. Growing up in Minnedosa, Manitoba, she helped start a non-profit organization benefiting education in Ethiopia and set up its communications strategy. She now works in social media strategy and development, where she outlines ways to effectively promote and engage using new media. McDonald currently lives in Winnipeg and enjoys movies, travel and current events.

Four Babies and a Mother

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by Alyssa McDonald November 14, 2011
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Imagine preparing to have one baby without realizing that you are actually pregnant with quadruplets. Without the same ultrasound technology as in Canada, many pregnant women in rural Ghana do not know they are carrying more than one child. This was the case for Rebecca ,whose family grew by four in March 2007. There was [...]

Tagged as: Community Integration Initiative Foundation, Ghana, human rights, jhr, Journalists for Human Rights, Multiple Births, Quadruplets

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To the Book-Mobile: Ghana’s Library on Wheels

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by Alyssa McDonald July 28, 2011
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For many rural children in Ghana, a community library seems like a far away dream. However, a mobile library is giving rural children access to books and computer lessons by delivering them right to their school. The children and youth are excited to get inside the mobile library and anxiously wait in line for their [...]

Tagged as: Access to Education, CIDA, Library, PEF, rural education

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Ghana Bar Association Educates Children on Their Rights

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by Alyssa McDonald July 26, 2011
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Knowing what rights you do have is the first way to recognizing when someone is abusing them. The Ghana Bar Association recognizes this fact and has set up workshops centered on teaching school children about their rights and responsibilities. “I think that the program is good because I want to be educated about my rights,” [...]

Tagged as: Childrens' Rights, CIDA, Ghana Bar Assocation, PEF, Rigths of the Child

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Tourists Prop up School in Ghana’s Stilt Village

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by Alyssa McDonald July 20, 2011
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The school in the village of Nzuluzu would not be able to function without tourism. The 500-year-old remote village is built on the water, held up entirely by stilts and only accessible by canoe. Each day, tourists from all over the world make the 30 minute canoe trip to the ‘stilt village’ to observe the [...]

Tagged as: CIDA, education, PEF, Stilt Village

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Getting Schooled on World Refugee Day

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by Alyssa McDonald June 20, 2011

Today is World Refugee Day and I have never really recognized this day before. Yes, perhaps I would have retweeted a Tweet about the day, or even posted a story about it to my Facebook wall, but it would not have resonated like it does now. In my time in Ghana, I have visited the [...]

Tagged as: CIDA, education, PEF, World Refugee Day

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The Ghanaian Social Network

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by Alyssa McDonald June 2, 2011

Social media has taken the world by storm and Ghana is no exception. Facebook is everywhere. When walking into an internet café in Ghana, it is hard to miss the blue and white pages of the poplar networking site on the screen of almost every single computer. “Social networking is the single most important activity [...]

Tagged as: CIDA, Facebook, PEF

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