A Better World (organization)
{{Short description|Canadian charitable organization}}
{{for|the television episode|A Better World (Justice League)}}
{{distinguish|Better World|In a Better World|One Better World}}
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| key_people = Eric Rajah, Brian Leavitt
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A Better World (ABW) is an organization that is based in Lacombe, Alberta, Canada.{{Cite journal|journal=Red Deer Advocate|author=Susan Zielinski|title=Groups helping sex trade victims|date=September 21, 2012}} It is a charitable organization, founded in 1990.{{Cite journal|title=Lacombe charity celebrates 20 years|journal=Lacombe Globe|author=Lisa Joy|date=April 28, 2010|url=http://www.lacombeglobe.com/2010/04/28/lacombe-charity-celebrates-20-years|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130127130526/http://www.lacombeglobe.com/2010/04/28/lacombe-charity-celebrates-20-years|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 27, 2013|accessdate=October 19, 2012}} Eric Rajah is one of the co-founders of ABW.{{Cite journal|journal=Lacombe Globe|author=Cayley Dobie|title=ABW hosts Masaai speaker|date=September 20, 2012|url=http://www.lacombeglobe.com/2012/09/20/abw-hosts-masaai-speaker|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130127191617/http://www.lacombeglobe.com/2012/09/20/abw-hosts-masaai-speaker|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 27, 2013|accessdate=October 19, 2012}} More than 1800 people had volunteered on ABW projects by 2010.{{Cite journal|journal=Red Deer Advocate|author=Carolyn Martindale|title=Eric Rajah named in Top 50 Champions for Change|date=November 12, 2010|url=http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/opinion/Eric_Rajah_named_in_Top_50_Champions_for_Change_107503088.html|accessdate=October 19, 2012}}
Projects
ABW has several projects in Kenya, including the support of a hospital in Maasai Mara. ABW has also provided humanitarian aid to Burmese refugees in India.{{Cite journal|journal=Lacombe Globe|title=March|date=December 29, 2009|url=http://www.lacombeglobe.com/2009/12/29/march|accessdate=October 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305180056/http://www.lacombeglobe.com/2009/12/29/march|archive-date=March 5, 2016|url-status=dead}} In 2009, Cross Roads Church in Red Deer considered partnering with ABW on a project to give two internally displaced persons camps in Kosti, Sudan, access to a water source.{{Cite journal|journal=Lacombe Globe|author=Eric Rajah|title=Lacombe charity considers aid options in Sudan|date=April 4, 2009|url=http://www.lacombeglobe.com/2009/04/03/lacombe-charity-considers-aid-options-in-sudan|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130128014927/http://www.lacombeglobe.com/2009/04/03/lacombe-charity-considers-aid-options-in-sudan|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 28, 2013|accessdate=October 19, 2012}} In 2011, Azalea Lehndorff started the 100 Classroom Project, an ABW initiative that educates girls in Afghanistan.{{Cite journal|journal=Lacombe Globe|author=Lisa Joy|title=Lehndorff reacts to Afghanistan kidnapping|date=October 16, 2012|url=http://www.lacombeglobe.com/2012/10/17/lehndorff-reacts-to-afghanistan-kidnapping|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130128025809/http://www.lacombeglobe.com/2012/10/17/lehndorff-reacts-to-afghanistan-kidnapping|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 28, 2013|accessdate=October 19, 2012}} The goal of the project is to build 100 classrooms in Jowzjan Province in the space of three years.{{Cite journal|journal=Lacombe Globe|author=Emily Cochrane|date=October 6, 2011|title=A Better World hoping to build more classrooms|url=http://www.lacombeglobe.com/2011/10/06/a-better-world-hoping-to-build-more-classrooms|accessdate=October 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306043738/http://www.lacombeglobe.com/2011/10/06/a-better-world-hoping-to-build-more-classrooms|archive-date=March 6, 2016|url-status=dead}}
ABW has also helped with building development of St Luke's Leprosarium, Peikulum in Tamil Nadu.
Partnership with Raise Their Voice
ABW partnered with Raise Their Voice throughout the 2012 tour of Andrew Kooman's She Has a Name; while the play toured across Canada to raise awareness about human trafficking, ABW raised money to help women and children who had been trafficked in Thailand as part of the country's prostitution industry. Specifically, the money raised went to Home of New Beginnings, a safe house established in Bangkok in 2006, where former human trafficking victims can receive life skills-based education and spiritual healing, thereby allowing them to attain a healthy and financially stable lifestyle. At the time of the 2012 tour of the play, Home of New Beginnings had 17 residents, the oldest being 33 and the youngest being 11. From their fundraising initiative with Raise Their Voice, ABW hoped to raise $12000 to pay an outstanding property bill, $18000 to buy two auto rickshaws, $9000 to finance a training building, $9000 to buy vocational education equipment, and $5000 to finance a gift shop in which the residents sell products they have made, such as baked goods. All five members of Raise Their Voice had previous connections with ABW, and the plan to have the two organizations working in conjunction had been developing since 2011. The program passed out at each performance recommended ABW to audiences as a good organization to support, as well as listing the websites of several other nonprofit organizations.{{Cite journal|journal=Red Deer Advocate|author=Lana Michelin|date=May 15, 2012|title=Playwright tells story of human trafficking}}
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Category:Adventist organizations established in the 20th century
Category:Children's charities based in Canada
Category:Christian educational organizations
Category:Christian organizations established in 1990
Category:Development charities based in Canada
Category:Independent ministries of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Category:International volunteer organizations
Category:Organizations based in Alberta
Category:Foreign charities operating in Kenya
Category:Foreign charities operating in Thailand
Category:Social welfare parachurch organizations