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Canada, Play Your Part to end extreme poverty

Perhaps you were one of the thousands of Canadians asked to Play Your Part to end extreme poverty on March 2nd, the third annual EWB Day. Hundreds of EWB volunteers from across the country were drawing Canadians' attention to the extreme poverty that persists throughout the developing world and how Canada, by playing its part, can help end it.

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www.ewb.ca

The hundreds of people who visit www.ewb.ca each day will notice some exciting changes thanks to the redesigned website launched last month. You will now find more information about our work in Canada and overseas at your fingertips, including project, volunteer and country profiles, more news features, and more resources for learning about development. We hope these additions, along with the new look and feel, will make for a more exciting and informative user experience!

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Sharing his point of view

Spending more than a year in Zambia working with small-scale farmers has certainly helped to shape EWB volunteer Mike Quinn's point of view—a point of view that CBC wants to share with Canadians. Mike is now one of CBC's newest Global View Columnists, contributing his perspective to the Viewpoints section of their website. The first two articles, of six, are now available online.

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2005 Chapters & Volunteers of the Year

EWB is fortunate to have hundreds of extremely committed volunteers and 27 active chapters—all of whom are striving to promote human development both in Canada and abroad. In 2005, two chapters and four volunteers were recognized for their exceptional contributions.

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Adding new expertise to EWB's Advisory Board

Robert Chambers and Betty Plewes, a prominent development thinker and a well-known consultant to non-governmental organisations respectively, have now joined EWB's Advisory Board. Joining the list of leaders in their fields who make up our Advisory Board, Robert Chambers and Betty Plewes will provide valuable insights and advice from their experiences in the field of international development.

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