Exhibition Prompts Visitors to Rethink Global Poverty and its Solutions | Ottawa Life Magazine

What does a ring of chairs around flip chart have to do with social change in Mozambique? Why restore a garden in war-torn Afghanistan? These are some of the provocative questions that confront visitors to Bridges that Unite, a free exhibition on until February 28 at the Canada Science and Technology Museum, 1867 St. Laurent Blvd.

Stunning photography, engaging stories, film, audioscapes and educational activities, challenge conventional notions of poverty in the developing world, and how to address it.

Bridges that Unite, is a unique showcase of what Canada, at its best, has been able to achieve in some of the most remote and impoverished parts of the world, says Khalil Z. Shariff, Chief Executive Officer of Aga Khan Foundation Canada, which is presenting the exhibition.

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