Oikocredit Joins OCIC's Transformations Exhibit
04 March 2019 Transformations: Stories of Partnership, Resilience and Positive Change is an award-winning collaborative photojournalism initiative intended to increase dialogue and further understanding of international partnerships that address complex global challenges.
The Ontario Council for International Coorporation's (OCIC) Transformations 2019 exhibit profiles over 60 individuals that work intentionally to build bridges between communities like Sarnia and Hawkesbury, Ontario, with those in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Dakar, Senegal. These everyday actors of social, economic and environmental change are connected to diverse civil society organizations and institutions across our province that are contributing to universal sustainable development. Their lived experiences and reflections on feminist and transformative change, community-led action, decolonization and the importance of localizing global issues are a part of collective efforts to “leave no one behind,” articulated since 2015 through the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030.
Among those profiled are Eugene Ellmen, former National Director, Oikocredit Canada, who comments, “Not a lot of people are thinking about whether they are fundamentally making a change.”
See the online exhibit here or in person from March 4 to 7 at Metro Hall, Rotunda, 200 Wellington Street West, Toronto.