Valerie Maier, Author at Perspective

Valerie Maier

Valerie Maier is a member of the diocesan PWRDF/Alongside Hope Working Group

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Brian Eckert and Bob Orr, members of St. Bart's, took charge of the suitcase on display in the church hall. PHOTO: GILLES VÉZINA

Alongside Hope’s solar suitcase campaign brings light to mothers and babies

Valerie Maier January 30, 2026

In the closing months of 2025, the diocese of Ottawa supported Alongside Hope’s national campaign to bring light and renewable energy to rural clinics in

L-R: Pam Hazen, gardener; Barbara Bottriell, PWRDF parish representative, and the Rev. Lee Lambert, incumbent at St. Thomas Stittsville, plant a seedling.

Branches of Hope project celebrates success — 24,000 trees planted in Uganda and Ottawa

Valerie Maier March 20, 2025

In 2022 the Diocesan PWRDF/Alongside Working Group were inspired by a PWRDF partner visiting Ottawa who describing the tragic consequences of changing climate occurring in