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CANADIAN WORLD EDUCATION

FOUNDATION

10th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

September 17, 2010

WELCOME

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AGENDA for CWEF 10th AGM1. Minutes of Sept 25th, 2009 AGM and Business arising from the Minutes

2. President’s Introductory Remarks; welcoming ICA Board members (H Patel)

3. Report of the Auditor (Board)

MOTION: That the 2008-09 Auditor’s Report be received.

4. Appointment of the Auditor for 2010-2011 (Board)

MOTION: That Gerald Duthie & Co. be appointed as the Auditor for

CWEF for 2010-2011.

5. Committee Reports

i. Website and Awareness Committee (S Bandyopadhyay)

ii. Finance Committee (R Mathur)

iii. Kenyan Chapter (H Joshi)

iv. Canadian Chapter (R Barron)

v. Assistance to Widows Committee (S Jasra)

vi. Nominating Committee (Board)

MOTION: That Melissa Hobbs, Shashi Jasra and Ravi Syal be approved as

Directors Elect for 2010-2011.

6. London Council (M Mathur)

7. Special Thanks to Rotary Club of Windsor (1918) (R Barron)

8. CBA Recognition (S Pandey)

9. Visits to Schools; Presentation by Rigya Arya (R Barron)

10. Special Donation from JK and Shali Chandna (R Caron)

11. Closing Remarks (Y Aneja)

12. Other Business

13. Adjournment

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Board of Directors

Yash Aneja

Kai Hildebrandt

Zhiguo Hu

Sushil Jain

Rakesh Kumar

Siyaram Pandey

Hasmukh Patel

Tim Traynor

Ron Barron (DE)

Harshad Joshi (DE)

Rakesh Mathur (DE)

Frank White (DE)

Officers

Hasmukh Patel (President)

Yash Aneja (Vice-President)

Rakesh Mathur (Treasurer)

Siyaram Pandey (Secretary)

Dan Britten (General Manager)

2009-2010

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Agenda Item #3

MOTION: That the 2008-09 Auditor’s Report be received.

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Agenda Item #4

MOTION: That Gerald Duthie & Co. be appointed as the Auditors for CWEF for 2010-2011.

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Agenda Item #5i

Report from the Website and

Awareness Committee(Subir Bandyopadhyay)

Website Committee Members

Subir Bandyopadhyay (Chair)

Gary Champ

Manish Patel

Frank White (www.cwef.ca)

• current web information is out of date and lacks

features widely used by other similar organizations

• work to be done in two phases

• Phase 1: update data, add videos (completed)

• Phase 2, rewrite entire web site using a modern

package for developing websites (start in Fall)

• Thanks to Sathish Subramanian, Sanah Shaheen and

Arun Suryanarayanan for their work on Phase 1;

Manish Patel will be assisting with Phase 2

• Thanks to Vedant Pandey for preparing videos

• brochure has been designed and is available – thanks

to Meera Trivedi for adding her expertise

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Report from the Finance Committee(Rakesh Mathur)

Agenda Item #5ii

Finance Committee Members

Rakesh Mathur (Chair)

Amit Bagga

Dan Britten

Pardeep Jasra

Purna Kaloni

Meenal Sharma

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From August 1, 2009 to July 31, 2010, a total of 115 donations were received totaling $76,033

Canadian World Education Foundation

Total Donations by Year 2002 - 2010

2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10

Amount

Donated$50,847 $52,517 $62,432 $64,128 79,532 79,630 74,218 76,033

Number

of Donors59 63 95 103 102 105 97 115

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Account Details

Breakdown of Net Equity

Item Amount

Donations

Indian Chapter 451,114

Canadian Chapter 23,384

Kenyan Chapter 12,766

Rotary Club Windsor (1918) 12,501

Indian Chapter - London 9,743

Total Donations 509,508

Assistance Provided




Rotary Club Windsor (1918) 0

Total Assistance Provided 448,938

Funds Remaining in Chapters


Indian Chapter - London 9,743



Rotary Club of Windsor (1918) 12,501

Interest Income 12,163

Operating Expenses -12,225

Opening Balance 15,466

Net Equity 75,984

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Report from Kenyan Chapter(Harshad Joshi)

Agenda Item #5iii

Kenyan Chapter Committee

Members

Harshad Joshi (Chair)

Chandrakant Kania

Tom Nenadovic

Kumash Parikh

Rajinder Rana

Thanks to

Daniel Mungai

and

Kay Curtis

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Report from Canadian Chapter(Ron Barron)

Agenda Item #5iv

Canadian Chapter

Committee Members

Melissa Hobbs (Chair)

Heather Britten

Kai Hildebrandt

Zhigou Hu

Susan Wendt-Hildebrandt

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Canadian Chapter continued to work with General

Brock and Marlborough Public Schools, to build

resources in their Leveled Reading Rooms.

Chapter section on the website has been rewritten.

For 2010-2011, CC will be looking at providing

similar support to a third school in Windsor.

Other possible projects may also be considered.

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Report from Assistance to Widows

Committee (Shashi Jasra)

Agenda Item #5v

ATWC Members

Shashi Jasra(Chair)

Yash Aneja

Ranbir Gugneja

Sushil Jain

Siyaram Pandey

Rathna Prakash

Sneh Rana

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ATWC VOLUNTEERS 2009-2010

Preparation of Excel Sheets and

Cheques for 2010-2011

Yash Aneja

Arvind Arya

Ron Barron

Krishna Chandna

Om Chandna

HR Gandhi

Parshotam Gupta

Sushil Jain

Shashi Jasra

Mohan Mathur

Siyaram Pandey

Rathna Prakash

Sneh Rana

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The academic year 2010-2011

CWEF is working with 26 schools and at

least 8 colleges in 9 different states in India.

Will assist more than 610 mothers for the

education of approx. 700 plus children

From this Academic Year, those students already

getting support and continuing with Post Secondary

Education will be receiving additional Rs 1000/- . The

money is being provided by Mr. & Mrs. J.K.

Chandna

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INDIAN CHAPTER GROWTH –

Widows Assisted

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010

3 16 1554

96141

206290

338354

417

516 546614 620

Year

No. of

widows

assisted

(Projected)

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INDIAN CHAPTER GROWTH –

Children Assisted

7 24 2392

154192249

356398

464519

643 654715 720

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010

Year

No. of

children

assisted

(Projected)

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INDIAN CHAPTER

Funds Spent to Assist Widows

39621121980

712812672

18612

27192

38280

4461648180

52000

68500

60000

6472267000

0

10000

20000

30000

40000

50000

60000

70000

Assistance

($)

1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010

Year

(projected)

Certificates of Appreciation(Sushil Jain, Rakesh Kumar)

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Rigya Arya

Sumedha Arya

Harshil Jasra

Ajay Madaan

Mukesh Pandey

Nikhil Rana

Bhawna Sharma

Preeti Sharma

Preeti SharmaBhawna Sharma

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Report from Nominating Committee(Hasmukh Patel)

Agenda Item #5vi

MOTION: that

Melissa Hobbs,

Shashi Jasra,

Ravi Syal

be approved as Directors Elect for 2010-11.

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Nominations for 2010-2011 Committees

of the Canadian World Education Foundation

Finance

Committee

Rakesh Mathur (Chair)

Amit Bagga

Dan Britten

Pardeep Jasra

Purna Kaloni

Shahnaz Mahajan

Website and Awareness

Committee

Subir Bandyopadhyay (Chair)

Sanjay Chitte

Manish Patel

Sathish Subramanian

Sanah Shaheen

Frank White

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Canadian Chapter

Melissa Hobbs (Chair)

Heather Britten

Zhiguo Hu

Kai Hildebrandt

Susan Wendt-Hildebrandt

Indian Chapter: ATWC

Shashi Jasra (Chair)

Yash Aneja

Hansraj Gandhi

Sushil Jain

Siyaram Pandey

Rathna Prakash

Sneh Rana

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Kenyan Chapter

Harshad Joshi (Chair)

Chandrakant Kania

Daniel Mungai

Tom Nenadovic

Kumash Parikh

Rajinder Rana

Nominating

Committee

Dan Britten (Chair)

Ron Barron

Om Chandna

Hasmukh Patel

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Board of Directors

Yash Aneja

Ron Barron

Kai Hildebrandt

Zhiguo Hu

Harshad Joshi

Rakesh Mathur

Siyaram Pandey

Hasmukh Patel

Frank White

Melissa Hobbs (DE)

Shashi Jasra (DE)

Ravi Syal (DE)

Officers

Hasmukh Patel (President)

Yash Aneja (Vice-President)

Rakesh Mathur (Treasurer)

Siyaram Pandey (Secretary)

Dan Britten (General Manager)

2010-2011

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Mohan Mathur

Parshotam Gupta

Agenda Item #6

CWEF London Council

Why CWEF London Council?

• Donors/members in London and their

friends feel that we should assist CWEF

beyond contributing funds by volunteering

time to better meet CWEF objectives

• CWEF London Council has created an

identity, which helps in recruiting new

donors.

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CWEF London Council

Contributions

0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

7000

8000

9000

10000

06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11

DOLLARS

Contribution

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New Initiatives

• Volunteers for London Council activities:– Vineet Gupta, Vipin Bhayana, Vandana Nagpal-Shah,

Sunit Nanda, Parshotam Gupta, Mohan Mathur

• Fund raising: CWEF 2010 Inaugural Golf

Tournament, London, Sunday, October 10,

2010 – Organizers: Dinesh Sharma, Vineet Gupta, Vipin

Bhayana, Piyush Shah

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Agenda Item #7Special Thanks to Rotary Club of Windsor (1918)

(Ron Barron)

Rotarians Kay Curtis and Shari Cunningham visited India as part of

a Polio Plus National Immunization Day

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Visited Jaipur and met with Rotary Club of Jaipur Mid Town

In the academic year 2009-10, Rotary Club of Windsor (1918) and the

Rotary Club of Jaipur Mid Town adopted 3 schools

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Visit to the Taj Mahal

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Chemistry & Biochemistry

AssociationAgenda Item #8

• During March 2010, in our trip to India we visited

three schools on behalf of CWEF.

1- Floradale Public School, Dilshad Gardens, Delhi

2- S. D. Sr. Sec. School, GT Karnal Road, Panipat

3- Gurgaon Girls Sr. Sec. School, Gurgaon (A

Government School)

Rigya Arya & Sumedha Arya

Agenda Item #9

CWEF School Visits (Ron Barron)

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Floradale

Public School

• Large, beautiful school

• 2200 students, 125 teaching staff

• School tuition: 2500 Rs/ month (≈ $ 50 US/ month)

• Extremely kind welcome 37

Very clean, well kept

computer lab

38 Biology lab with lots of posters, specimens, and equipment

Well kept and well-stocked

Chemistry lab

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Good Library with lots of books

Spacious

Classrooms

40Biology Teacher Public Relations: Ms. Dipti Bhatia

Some of the Children

we met

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Principal: Ms. Indu

Bhatia

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Who We Met

–The Mothers

Spreading the Message

Mr. Arvind Arya gave a sincere, brief speech about the importance of

education as well as CWEF's plans to assist the students as long as

they pursued their studies.

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S.D. Sr. Sec. School

• 7000 children in whole school which is composed of:

– S.D. Senior Secondary School (Government School)

– S.D. Public School

– S.D. Girls School

– Engineering College

• School tuition: varies per school –12 Rs./month in main school

• S.D. Senior Secondary School: 1850 kids, 50 teachers 44

School

Courtyard

45Principal: Mr. Manoj Gupta President: Mr. Vinod Bindal Rotarian: Mr. Atul Chopra

Who We Met -

Children

Assembly Hall 46Exam Time

Gurgaon Girls

Sr. Sec. School

• No acting principal at the time - Mrs.

Kamini Kaushal substituting.

• Functioning volunteer: Mrs. Radha Gupta

• Quite different from the other two schools

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Dusty Computer Lab,

seemed out of use

Decrepit classrooms

Biology Lab - not well-equipped

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Dusty, unorganized carpentry workshop

Chemistry Room - many broken

shelves and beakers

Staff Lounge 49

Spreading the

Message

The End

Volunteer: Ms. Radha Gupta

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India Bound?

If you plan to visit India, then

maybe you can volunteer to visit

one or more of the Institutions

with which we are associated.

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Recognition for Special Donation(Rick Caron)

Agenda Item #10

JK and Shali

Chandna

(and Grandson)

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Closing Remarks(Yash Aneja)

Agenda Item #11

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