by GentleWays | Mar 21, 2024 | Food
With a grant from the City of Ottawa’s Sustainability program, GentleWays recently completed a project focused on promoting sustainable plant-based food choices in the city. This initiative involved collaborating with seven Ottawa restaurants to enhance the...
by GentleWays | Mar 10, 2024 | Leadership
Greetings and thanks (In French) I was asked why I founded GentleWays fior OurPlanet and what we want to accomplish through it. There are many real reasons why I founded GW in 2019, but the most core reasons are a realisation and an insight. I had been realising AND...
by Aïda Warah | Feb 21, 2024 | Leadership
I was aware of the power of words but, truly, didnt think that one word could trigger so much insight. “Happy New Year my dear Aïda”, the new year card said, “May you always have enough”. When I asked a group of people attending a workshop I was facilitating how...
by GentleWays | Oct 19, 2023 | Good News, Tree Planting
Our heartfelt thanks to the many individuals who made our second tree planting at Mowat Farm Park in Barrhaven event a great success. First the Steering Committee – Ashley Janna, Carole Nehme, Colette Corban, Hashem Y Hashem, and Mounir Gedeon – who, over the past...
by GentleWays | Oct 7, 2023 | Food, Good News
Our work supporting more animal protection practices in Canada got a boost with a letter to the editor published today, October 4th 2023, in the Ottawa Citizen. The letter was drafted by Teke Rerri, the project lead and Director on our Board of Directors. Please...
by GentleWays | Oct 7, 2022 | Good News, Tree Planting
GentleWays for OurPlanet’s first in-person tree planting event was an awesome, memorable day! Dozens of youths and youth at heart mainly from the Lebanese-Canadian community in Ottawa planted 125 trees at Neil Nesbitt Park in Barrhaven, Ottawa, on September 24,...
