Atlantic Council for International Cooperation

10/05/2026

How are changing priorities and funding pressures shaping the future of international cooperation?

Join us for our upcoming webinar, Signs of the Times: Understanding Changes to Canada’s International Assistance

The international cooperation sector is facing significant changes, from tighter resources to growing debate about the value and purpose of international assistance. This conversation will explore what’s happening in Canada and globally, and what these shifts mean for organizations, communities, and young people involved in this work.

Thursday, October 22, 2026
1 p.m. Atlantic
Online via Zoom

You can learn more and register at www.acic-caci.org/get-involved or at the link in our bio!

10/01/2026

A big congratulations to ACIC member Tavneet Kaur, who received the Government of Nova Scotia’s 2026 Newcomer Volunteer of the Year Award this week!

In our latest blog post, Tavneet shares how her own search for belonging as an international student in Antigonish grew into X Helping Hands Association , creating spaces for connection, creativity, and community across rural Nova Scotia.

We’re so happy to celebrate Tavneet and share the story behind her work!

You can read her reflections at the link in our bio, or at www.acic-caci.org/blog

09/21/2026

Sound on!

Our Team Guatemala IYIP Intern, Chase, shares a little slice of daily life from San Lucas Toliman and the Instituto Mesoamericano de Permacultura (IMAP) through this soundscape.

Take a listen and reach Chase's reflections in our latest blog post here: https://www.acic-caci.org/post/learning-how-to-listen-differently

09/18/2026

Come spend a day in Cape Coast, Ghana with our interns! 🇬🇭

Ever wondered what everyday life on an international internship looks like? One of our International Youth Internship Program (IYIP) interns, Farianny, is taking us along for a little peek into their day.

09/17/2026

Meet the team at ACIC!

We’re happy to re-introduce the people behind our programs, events, communications, and all the work that keeps ACIC running. We’re excited for another year at ACIC and can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on!

09/01/2026

We wrote a book!

Over the last few months, we’ve been putting the finishing touches on I Am From: A PhotoVoice Project.

The book brings together submissions from the past five years of ACIC’s PhotoVoices program, featuring young people from Atlantic Canada, Ghana, Nigeria, Malawi, The Gambia, Cameroon, Guyana and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Through photography and storytelling, participants explore themes including gender equity, environmental sustainability, social advocacy and identity, sharing experiences that reveal how much connects us across continents and oceans.

We have hardcover copies at the ACIC office, and you can also read the book online through the link in our bio!

A huge thank you to Carmahn M.♡ for the beautiful illustrations and the design of the book, to Tedi and Charis for their help with the writing, and to Jackie, who leads our PhotoVoices program and made this project possible in the first place.

08/19/2026

This summer was Charis’ first time at our Global Citizenship Youth Conference, and she jumped right in as one of our conference leaders! In our latest blog, she shares what it was like helping bring the weekend together, watching the participants make every workshop their own, and realizing that leadership is not always about having the answers. Sometimes it is about making space for others to find theirs.

A big shoutout to Charis, our amazing team of leaders, and all the participants who made the weekend what it was!

Read Charis' blog here:

After weeks of planning and spreadsheets, July 10-13th was finally time for the ACIC Global Citizenship Youth Conference! As a first time attendee and leader at that, I was quite nervous going in. I did not know exactly what to expect, and I felt the opportunity was a great responsibility. I was thi...

08/18/2026

We’re so excited to congratulate Dr. Barb Hamilton-Hinch of Connecting to Africa and Dr. Shelly Whitman of the Dallaire Institute for Children, Peace and Security on their appointments to the Order of Nova Scotia!

Both Barb and Shelly have made an incredible impact through organizations in the ACIC network, creating opportunities for young people, strengthening communities, and advancing equity, peace, and human rights in Nova Scotia and around the world. We’re very proud to see their leadership recognized with the province’s highest honour.

Dr. Barb Hamilton-Hinch established Connecting to Africa in 1998 to help Black and African Nova Scotian youth connect with their ancestry through cultural learning and travel. Through Connecting to Africa and her broader community leadership, Barb has created meaningful opportunities for young people while advancing education, health equity, and social justice for Black and African Nova Scotian communities.

As Executive Director of the Dallaire Institute for Children, Peace and Security, Dr. Shelly Whitman has worked to change how the international community understands and responds to the recruitment and use of children in armed violence, helping ensure that prevention is at the centre of those efforts. Her leadership has helped position the Dallaire Institute as a global leader in protecting children and building more peaceful communities.

Congratulations, Barb and Shelly! This recognition is so well deserved, and we’re grateful to have Connecting to Africa and the Dallaire Institute as part of the ACIC community.

08/12/2026

ACIC extends its condolences to the loved ones and community of Marie Burge, who passed on 10 August 2026 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

Marie exemplifies everything the not-for-profit sector works and inspires towards: passionate, engaged, dynamic, and above all, caring and fair. Marie’s enthusiasm for her community and her love of justice took her to volunteer and advocacy work in food sovereignty, energy sovereignty, environmental rights, reproductive justice, women’s rights, migrant workers’ rights, universal basic income, proportional representation and democratic structuring, and so much more through her work with the Cooper Institute, the Latin American Mission Program, the Working Group for a Livable Income, the Coalition for the Protection of PEI Lands, Save Our Seas and Shores, Islanders for Proportional Representation, and many others.

She bettered the lives of not just her friends and family, but all who live on PEI. But her scope goes so much further: Marie Burge was one of ACIC’s founding members fifty years ago, and her ground work set our course for the five decades since. The not-for-profit sector of Atlantic Canada wouldn’t be what it is without her work, and all she has done reverberates on the national and international stage.

Marie has been recognized several times over, including the 1998 Medal of Merit from the Order of PEI, the Leo Cheverie Lifetime Achievement Award from the Voluntary Resource Council in 2025, and also received the King Charles III Coronation Medal from the Governor General of Canada in 2025.

We extend our condolences to all of Marie Burge’s loved ones and with the PEI not-for-profit community.