Jason Rasevych finalist for 2018 CANDO awards

Jason Rasevych has been recognized as one of the country’s top Indigenous economic development officers (EDOs).

Rasevych, a member of the Ginoogaming First Nation near Longlac, Ont., was named a finalist for the Economic Developer of the Year Award by the Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers (CANDO) during its 2018 conference and annual general meeting Oct. 22-25, in Enoch, Alta.

It’s one of four awards handed out annually by the national organization.

Rasevych has worked with various First Nations, government departments and community economic development corporations for more than 15 years.

The 35-year-old Thunder Bay resident has been an integral part of a $69-million project to bring internet access to five remote First Nations communities in Northern Ontario.

He also spearheaded the Agoke LumberHealth cooperation in an hospital of a rural area of Ivory Coast: analysis of the priorities and of the different levels at which cooperation can take place.
This paper critically reviews an experience of health cooperation in an hospital of a rural area of Ivory Coast. This particular situation is analysed in the more general frame of health problems in low-income countries and may suggest priorities for international health cooperation. The analysis of the main causes of avoidable death in poor countries does indicate targets and tools of intervention. In this case, the target was the reduction of infant mortality from anaemia of different origin and from HIV-1 mother-to-infant transmission. The major tool for intervention was the partnership between an Italian teaching and research hospital and the African hospital,