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Debra Kerby has an interesting perspective on the world. As Executive Director of Canadian Feed The Children, she moves between her Toronto office to Haiti or Africa or Bolivia to keep a keen eye on how the agency is helping children thrive.
Debra heads up a small team with big hearts - people who are dedicated to helping move vulnerable children and families to a position of strength and self-sufficiency.
Join her on her quest to make a big change in the world for the smallest among us.
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Author Archives: Debra Kerby
Hope for Ethiopia’s Vulnerable Women and Children
Visit with CFTC partner ISAPSO, which works extensively with women-headed families in the poor communities of Sululta and Chancho outside of Addis, reveals the tremendous impact of child sponsorship on women’s and children’s lives. Continue reading
Experiencing The Great Rift Valley
Debra rises with the dawn and captures a 360-degree view of The Great Rift Valley of Africa – the cradle of life on our planet – viewed from Ankara, Ethiopia. Continue reading
Quality of Water = Quality of Life
Debra Kerby’s trip to Ethiopia continues with a trip to the Gelan Gura Water Initiative, just outside of Addis, with CFTC Partner EDA. Continue reading
Hot Beans and Cool Ideas
Debra Kerby’s third day in Addis is bookended by Ethiopian coffee ceremonies. In between, she visits an award-winning early childhood care centre run by CFTC partner, MCDP, plus much more. Continue reading
It takes guts to build trust
It takes guts to build trust, as Debra Kerby learns over dinner following day one of CFTC’s Ethiopian Partners Forum in Addis Ababa. Continue reading
Ethiopia Today
Debra Kerby has arrived safely in Addis Ababa to visit CFTC’s Ethiopian projects and partners. Here’s her view on Ethiopia today-a country that has made tremendous strides to alleviate poverty, although is still ranked among the poorest in the world. Continue reading
Heading off to the Horn of Africa
Debra Kerby blogs before she hits the road again, this time to Ethiopia where she’ll be visiting projects including the Gelan Gura Water Initiative. This well construction project is underway with involvement of 850 families in this impoverished rural community outside of Addis. Continue reading
Signing off (for now) from Sucre, Bolivia
Genevieve Drouin’s last day in Sucre was rainy, but she was able to explore the World Heritage Site and once the fog cleared, hopped a plane to La Paz for an important meeting with CIDA to cap off her trip. Continue reading
Spending time with Bolivia’s kids and parents
Day four from Bolivia, and CFTC Program Manager Genevieve Drouin has had many inspiring conversations with parents in Bolivia’s most remote and impoverished communities. They want what all parents want: health and education – and a better life – for their children. And they are working hard to achieve it. Continue reading
Returning to Bolivia
Blogging from the high Andes in Bolivia! Guest blogger and CFTC Program Manager, Genevieve Drouin, shares her insights into our work on children’s health in Sucre through partner, IPTK. Continue reading
