Outreach Trips

In recent years, SOS has helped build strategic partnerships with Carleton University, the University of Toronto, and Durham College to plan customized experiential learning trips with our local partners in Latin America. This collaboration is part of a growing wave of partnerships between SOS and post-secondary institutions to help connect students to the Sustainable Development …

Connecting Canada’s colleges and universities to the #GlobalGoals Read More »

Dear SOS Community, In recent weeks our partnering organizations in Nicaragua and Guatemala have been experiencing exceptionally difficult circumstances as a result of two different scenarios. In Nicaragua, at the end of April 2018, policy changes to the Nicaraguan social security system led to demonstrations and protests that are still ongoing at this time. There …

Update on the Ongoing Emergencies in Nicaragua and Guatemala Read More »

Laura Viselli, SOS’s Director of International Programs at SOS, spent 10 days visiting partnering organizations in Guatemala in October 2017. My second Experience Guatemala tour and second experience in Ciudad Vieja and San Lorenzo del Cubo was a combination confectionary making tour in Ciudad Vieja and a coffee tour in San Lorenzo del Cubo. Despite …

Community Profiles: Ciudad Vieja & San Lorenzo del Cubo Part II Read More »

Laura Viselli, SOS’s Director of International Programs at SOS, spent 10 days visiting partnering organizations in Guatemala in October 2017.   Ciudad Vieja and San Lorenzo del Cubo are both a short bus ride from Antigua. Ciudad Vieja is closest, but the total distance is no more than 20 minutes. San Lorenzo del Cubo is …

Community Profiles: Ciudad Vieja & San Lorenzo del Cubo Part I Read More »

Laura Viselli, SOS’s Director of International Programs at SOS, spent 10 days visiting partnering organizations in Guatemala in October 2017. Santa Apolonia is relatively short drive from Guatemala City. On the way there we battle heavy traffic and turbulent roads, but it isn’t anything that Edil cannot handle. In the front seat Sheily runs through …

Community Profile: Santa Apolonia Read More »

By David Venn And there I was, still so young and naive that buying textbooks with the intention of actually reading them was about as conscious a decision as willingly sporting Osiris’ was. First-year university is the cat’s hairball of life. It’s soft, cozy and deceivingly cute. But also has hair in weird places, probably …

Five reasons you’re going on an Outreach Trip Read More »

By Sally Lu, Business Analyst, Prophix Software Inc. The author of this post participated on a SOS Outreach Trip to Pueblo Viejo, in Nicaragua, in April 2017 with fellow Prophix employees. This post is the last installment of a three part series on how your professional career does not signal the end of your volunteer career.  …

Working Together for a Better Future: CSR at Prophix Read More »

By Sally Lu, Business Analyst, Prophix Software Inc. The author of this post participated on a SOS Outreach Trip to Pueblo Viejo, in Nicaragua, in April 2017 with fellow Prophix employees. This post is the second installment of a three part series on how your professional career does not signal the end of your volunteer career.  …

Where We Began: The Journey of CSR at Prophix Read More »