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OUR VISION

CoDevelopment Canada links unions and civil society organizations in Canada with like-minded organizations in all regions of Latin America; establishing and sustaining partnerships to build solidarity, promote mutual understanding, and create change for a more just and equitable world.

OUR VALUES

CoDevelopment Canada upholds the following principles in our work and alliances:

  • Democratic sustainable development

  • Economic justice and workers’ rights

  • Environmental justice

  • Gender equity and empowerment of women

  • Human rights and social justice

  • Indigenous rights and reconciliation

  • Racial and ethnic equality

  • Trade union rights

  • Universal and free healthcare

  • Universal and free public education

OUR STORY

Founded in 1985 by a group of activists who wanted to go beyond simply sending financial aid to Latin American countries, we believe that partnerships between like-minded organizations in Canada and Latin America can be vehicles for learning, social change, and community empowerment.

Our goal is to mobilize Canadians to work with the people of Latin America for a fairer world. CoDev achieves this by fostering partnerships between trade unions and civil society groups in Canada and their counterparts in Latin America. These partnerships educate Canadians about Latin America and allow them to directly support the region. Such connections build solidarity and mutual understanding and ultimately improve prospects for a more just world.

CoDev is made up of all of its amazing staff, board, volunteers, and our Canadian and Latin American partners. CoDev is the sum of the relationships it has built over 40 years and counting.  CoDev staff members are represented by CUPE Local 1004 , and we are an approved Living Wage employer.

SOLIDARITY, NOW MORE THAN EVER!

This short video shows what partnership and solidarity means to CoDevelopment Canada.

CoDev’s 2025 Solidarity and Fundraising Dinner was a wonderful success! Left to right: Rueben George opened the gala by welcoming everyone to the unceded territory of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. Later, CoDevelopment Canada President Julia MacRae presented International Solidarity Awards to Larry Kuehn and María Leyzaquia Vargas and Kathy Ramírez Gonzales from SUTEP — the Peruvian Education Workers’ Union. Photos by Zenna Wong.

PHOTOS
THE AWARD WINNERS
 
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