Craig Kielburger was the inaugural winner of the Global Citizen Kelowna Award (2008) Craig Kielburger is an accomplished child rights advocate, leadership specialist, New York Times best-selling au...

2009 saw the presentation of the first Global Citizen Kelowna Youth Award. YAMESHA RANATUNGA, a grade 12 student from Kelowna Secondary School was the deserving recipient. Yamesha believes that...

Over the past sixteen years, Greg Mortenson, through his nonprofit Central Asia Institute (CAI), has worked to promote peace through education by establishing more than 130 schools, most of them for g...

The AIDS pandemic of Africa has killed 19 million people, 4 million of them children. It is the world's worst health disaster since the Middle Ages. The problems are so staggering they seem incomprehe...

In Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time , Greg Mortenson, and journalist David Oliver Relin, recount the journey that led Mortenson from a failed 1993 attem...