Script writer and voiceover for explainer video. World Vision Canada, a respected charity serving vulnerable children and their families around the world, publishes a comprehensive annual report detailing its work and impact for its fiscal year.
Editor and co-writer. World Vision Canada, a respected charity serving vulnerable children and their families around the world, publishes a comprehensive annual report detailing its work and impact for its fiscal year.
A creative narrative about the life and times of a World Vision Canada legacy donor. This story appeared in the Planned Giving department’s Legacy Insight newsletter (flip book), July 2023.
Editor for World Vision Canada’s 2021 “May Contain Child Labour – Risky Canadian Grocery Report.”
A multi-part, SEO-focused feature focused on poverty in the developing world. This content is designed to inform donors and potential donors about the wider context surrounding World Vision Canada’s charitable work.
U.S. acts on Bangladesh garment industry (original link) But will it help? by Samson Okalow Jul 10, 2013 A series of tragedies culminating in May in a catastrophic factory collapse in Bangladesh has now resulted in trade action from the United States, the world’s biggest apparel market. The Office of the United States Trade Representative…
Child labour is not that hard It’s not that hard to fix, that is. An uproar over abuses in Burkina Faso shows us how we can do it. by Samson Okalow Dec 20, 2011 The recent Bloomberg story about child labour in Burkina Faso is difficult to get through. You read about the struggle of 13-year-old Clarisse Kambire working…
Random acts of debt forgiveness (original link) The Occupy movement tackles consumer debt with Strike Debt’s “Rolling Jubilee.” by Samson Okalow Nov 22, 2012 If there was any criticism most routinely leveled at the Occupy movement during its Fall 2011 heyday it was that it was unfocused and proposed little or nothing in the way…
Bangladesh workers: Two bucks more for a T-shirt to help them? (original link) The real cost of clothing. by Samson Okalow May 15, 2013 A string of fatal tragedies in Bangladesh over the last year has revealed the true price of cheap clothing. It culminated in April in a horrific building collapse that killed over…