Letters from Lesotho
Media Releases
TOMS Shoes “One-for-One” Hits Home with Ottawa-based Charity
Help Lesotho Achieves Accreditation from Imagine Canada’s Standards Program
Media Resources
Please direct all media inquiries to:
Kate Lambert
Program Manager
kate@helplesotho.org
613-369-5964
Help Lesotho in the News
After 15 years in Lesotho, Canadian psychologist calls for less ‘cynicism’ and more giving at Women Deliver
While attending the 'Women Deliver' conference in Vancouver in June 2019, Peg was interviewed by the Vancouver Star. Click the link to read the full article! https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2019/06/05/after-15-years-in-lesotho-canadian-psychologist-calls-for-less-cynicism-and-more-giving-at-women-deliver.html?fbclid=IwAR3PHVZyVauboxLLxKxvcjSPweg01oEs5omOFAZhVO5TmIkGRgHQHfUkMp4
Palesa Goes to Camp Episode 1: Meet Palesa
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to attend one of our Leadership Camps? This week, Ausi Palesa is at camp and she’s going to give us the full story on what’s like to be
Peg Receives the Meritorious Service Cross!
We are overjoyed to share the news that Peg Herbert was presented with the Meritorious Service Cross on Tuesday, December 12. The prestigious honour was presented by the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Canada’s Governor General.
A Young Girl and Her Pencil
Many of you will remember a photo that Peg Herbert took 12 years ago of a sweet young girl at her primary school in Lesotho. The photo of little Lits’oanelo with a pencil stub tied
Fighting Against Gender-Based Violence
Young Basotho men and women are standing up and speaking out against gender-based violence and early and forced child marriage in an exciting new way. "GIRL4ce" is a Help Lesotho youth-led movement for POSITIVE
Event Recap: The Forgotten Kingdom
Help Lesotho presents the “The Forgotten Kingdom”, an award-winning film by Andrew Mudge that tells the story of a young man reluctantly embarking on a journey to his ancestral land of Lesotho (southern Africa) to
News About Lesotho
Palesa Goes to Camp Episode 1: Meet Palesa
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to attend one of our Leadership Camps? This week, Ausi Palesa is at camp and she’s going to give us the full story
The South African Drought
Water-rich Lesotho has long lubricated South Africa’s burgeoning population, but when drought struck in 2016, it was the residents of Katse village who suffered. Read more about the effects of
Lesotho: The worst drought in a lifetime
When the Ntsoa family realized they were not going to get any harvest from their land in southwestern Lesotho this season, Mathabo Ntsoa’s daughter had to leave to find work