For the period of April 1, 2006 through March 31, 2007. The informationon this page was taken from unaudited financial statements. Complete financialstatements can be obtained from the Change for Children office.

REVENUEDonations and Non-Government Grants $510,055.98

Federal Grants $207,311.00

Provincial Grants $76,354.40

Benefits, Functions & GiftShop Sales $51,781.02

Casino Income $19,569.94

Other (interest, GST recoverable)$10,058.94

Donated Services (portion ofrent, equipment) $5,399.00

Total Revenue $880,470.28

CFCA opened the year with $144,536 in Projects Funds and $40,810 in the General Fund.

It is the policy of Change for Children to begin each year with sufficient funds to ensure continuationof multi-year projects with our partners.

EXPENDITURESProjects $497,786.87

Education Program $142,200.22

Benefits, Functions and GiftShop Purchases $22,629.70

Fund Development $53,629.81*

Administration $110,411.14

Total Expenditures $826,657.74

Projects expenditures include projectmanagement and project monitoring.

Internship expenditures are included in Education.

Administration costs include office relocationexpenses and equipment/software investments.

*Thank you to the Wild Rose Foundation for contributing a portion of our Fund Development program.

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

CHANGE FOR CHILDREN ASSOCIATION2nd Floor, 10808 - 124 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T5M 0H3Tel: 780.448.1505 • Fax: 780.448.1507 • www.changeforchildren.orgRegistered Charitable Organization No. 11884 9496 RR000

CFCA CONTRIBUTORSIn addition to the generous support ofhundreds of individuals, families, schools,congregations and small businesses the workof Change for Children was assisted bycontributions from:

Federal GovernmentCanadian International Development AgencyPartnership Branch:• NGO Project Facility• Stand Alone Public Engagement Fund• CIDA Youth Action Program

Alberta GovernmentEmployment, Immigration and Industry– S.T.E.P ProgramWild Rose Foundation of Alberta:• International Development Program• Quarterly Grants Program

Non GovernmentAlberta Council for Global CooperationBishop Croteau Charitable FoundationCongregation of Notre DameFlaman FoundationSisters of Charity of St.LouisUniversity of Alberta Lee Global Education

FundUnited Farmers of AlbertaWalter and Duncan Gordon FoundationWestwood Unitarian Church of EdmontonYouth of Alberta Foundation

Third-Party Partner OrganizationsAinembabaziCEBES-El Salvadoran Society of EdmontonChilean Canadian CommunityGrant MacEwan’s Project HopeGuatemala Solidarity CommitteeHands Across AfricaKindness in ActionTamarineh Society

VOLUNTEERSChange for Children could not exist withoutvolunteer support. Thank you for your commit-ment, time and knowledge that you have gen-erously given to our organization both inCanada and Internationally.

Board 2006/07Sharon Strong Scott HarrisDelmy Garcia-Hoyt Jania TeareEugene Ulmers Genna CollierMary Jane Klein Linda NicholatMichael Hoyt Patsy Ho

Staff 2006/07Fiona Cavanagh - Education CoordinatorShelaine Sparrow - Development CoordinatorClaudia Olivares - Financial and Administrative

CoordinatorLorraine Swift - Projects CoordinatorJulia Paulson - Projects Coordinator (interim)Diana Coumantarakis - Rural Roots Youth

Coordinator

Editor: Fiona CavanaghDesigner: Chris Peters

Additional Budget Note: Volunteer contributions for 2006/07 valued at $31,215.00

CHANGE FOR CHILDRENASSOCIATION

2007A N N U A L R E P O R T

This past year has been one of stable growth for Change for Children. Our capacity toimpact the root causes of poverty has grown as we have developed relationships withnew communities, new agencies, and businesses. We are encouraged by our growingmembership that continues to be diverse in age, background, and experience but con-tinues to share a common commitment to social justice.

We lay foundations that will need further development.

Your support has allowed us to carry out projects which are founded inbasic human needs of providing adequate potable water, housing, and sus-tainable nutritional solutions with partners in Nicaragua, Mexico,Guatemala and Brazil. As well, our partners in community health andHIV/AIDS prevention in Nicaragua, Honduras, and South Africa havebeen receiving our support. Children's Rights and Education remain ourfocus with partner communities in Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, Uganda,Tanzania, El Salvador, Bolivia, Brazil and Chile. As well we have placedspecial focus on a water project in Nicaragua, a health project with indige-nous people from the Misquito and Mayagana people Nicaragua and aproject related to natural health and human rights in the coastal zone ofUsulutan, El Salvador. At the same time, programming in Canada has continued to thrive.Change for Children completed three years of innovative global educationfor youth through the Rural Roots Youth Action project. We have also

focused on collaboration with other Alberta NGOs in our diverse public engagementactivities throughout the year such as World AIDS Day and International DevelopmentWeek. As we learned from our international counterparts, our work is more effectivewhen we create a strong network of local organizations.

Change for Children continues to make positive, long-term social changes to better theworld for future generations and we thank you for your continued support and solidar-ity. It is through your support that we are able to maintain necessary and life-enrich-ing community projects and we thank you for that. In this report, you will see exactlyhow your generous contributions are used. We maximize every dollar with sustainableadministrative costs to direct your money towards building strong and sustainable com-munities with our partners.

We stand with communities that are working to find innovative solutions to the chal-lenges that they face, drawing on the strengths that they hold. With your support, ourpartners are challenging the systems that cause oppression and poverty. Thank you toall of our partners, donors and supporters who sustain our organization.

Sharon Strong and Delmy Garcia-Hoyt,President and Vice President of the CFCA Board of Directors

Letter from the Executive

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Change for Children is an Edmonton based Non-Governmental organization with a 31year history of working for sustainable grassroots community development in LatinAmerica and Africa. In Canada our Global Education program challenges Canadians ina process of awareness raising, analysis and action on issues of global justice.

We plant the seedsthat one day will grow.We water seeds alreadyplanted, knowing thatthey hold future promise.

””

We can not do everything,and there is a sense ofliberation in realizing thatthis enables us to do somethingand to do it very well.It may be incomplete, but itis a beginning, a step alongthe way, an opportunity…”

– Quotations from Ken Untener

”

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When we build, let us thinkthat we build forever– JOHN RUSKIN

MOBILIZING RESOURCES

Generating resources for social justice is an integral part of Change for Children's work.CFCA's international projects and education program are supported by direct dona-tions from committed individuals, fundraising by third-party partners, annual fundrais-ing events, and campaigns like the 'Gift of Solidarity'. The consistent support demon-strated through these activities enables CFCA to leverage further funds from privatefoundations and government sources thus maximizing the impact of each donateddollar.

As many CFCA supporters remember, in 2005 the Canadian InternationalDevelopment Agency (CIDA) suspended the NGO Project Facility fund to conduct anevaluation. CFCA joined voices across the country in stressing to CIDA the importanceof Canadian NGOs work both in Canada and internationally. In 2006, CIDAlaunched the Voluntary Sector Fund (VSF), which now matches donor dollars towardsCIDA-funded projects 3 to 1. The overwhelming support for NGOs voiced to CIDAand the resulting VSF demonstrates the power that Canadians have to influence policyand increase resources in favor of social justice.

Sustained commitment from our supporters has also enabled CFCA's goals of engag-ing youth in global education. This dedication has allowed for new partnerships withorganizations like the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation to develop. Such part-nerships have enabled three consecutive years of innovative activities through the RuralRoots program and engagement activities for Canadians overall. Receiving multi-yearfunds allows programs to mature, partnerships to grow, and tangible results to be real-ized such as a cultivated network of youth leaders that will continue to advocate forsocial justice.

In 2005/06, the Wild Rose Foundation of Alberta continued to support internationalprojects. Through their Quarterly Grants Program, invested in our organizationalcapacity with a grant for a Funds Development Coordinator - an acknowledgment bythe Foundation that our capacity to build relationships at home is critical to our abil-ity to support projects internationally.

Change for Children's effectiveness is rooted in the commitment and innovation of anetwork of individuals and organizations North and South, who mobilize resourcesand share knowledge, which increases capacity and triggers new opportunities. Thisnetwork creates the flow of resources necessary to do the work that has significant andlasting impact.

IMPACTINGTOMORROW TODAY

Change for Children has promotedsustainable development for the last30 years. Today, our hope is tobuild an endowment fund to ensurewe maintain a vital and stableorganization well into the future.

Many supporters have endorsed theimportance of long-term gifts withcontributions towards the Changefor Children Endowment Fundand, thanks to them, we are close tothe $10,000 investment needed toofficiate the fund with theEdmonton CommunityFoundation. ECF manages theinvestment of endowments andreleases the interest earned to thenamed organization annually thusproviding a stable source of incomein perpetuity.

We thank all of our supporters whohave included the Change forChildren Endowment Fund as partof their legacy in their wills. Bynaming the Change for ChildrenEndowment Fund as a gift recipientin your will you ensure that yourcommitment to social justice willcontinue beyond your lifetime.

” ”

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Partner Profile: Centro HumboldtPromoting territorial development and environmental management

Nicaraguan NGO, Centro Humboldtand Change for Children, have beenbuilding a partnership of mutual learn-ing and commitment since the year2000 when Project Coordinator,Lorraine Swift, was in Nicaragua on aCUSO placement with the organiza-tion. Swift was inspired by the ways thatCentro Humboldt was able to under-stand and address Nicaragua's develop-ment challenges through a lens of envi-ronmental sustainability. “InNicaragua,” she says “climate change isalready visible and is already posing seri-ous threats to communities. CentroHumboldt understands that, forNicaragua, community developmentmust be approached from the per-spective of environmental preserva-tion and sustainable, locally-directedgrowth.”

Centro Humboldt, a leading organiza-tion in Nicaraguan civil society since1990, is CFCA's partner for our RuralCommunity Water Project, which in2007 received continued CIDA fundingand will now reach 70 communities inthe driest areas of Nicaragua. CentroHumboldt is also strongly committed todeveloping innovative solutions for theindigenous communities living in therainforest areas that make up the 'lungsof Central America', the tropical forestthat stretches the border of Nicaraguaand Honduras.

Centro Humboldt has been workingwith the more than 30 indigenous com-munities who live in the BOSAWASbiosphere - a 730,000 hectare UN-rec-ognized protected reserve in this forest -since the early 1990s. While theMayangna and Miskito indigenous peo-ples, who have lived in this rainforestarea for centuries, face challenges of

Deepening commitment to the'Lungs of Central America'

In 2007 Centro Humboldt and CFCA willbegin a new health project in BOSAWAS

Through its sustained relationship withCentro Humboldt, CFCA will com-mence a tri-lateral partnership withHonduran NGO, Alianza Verde in2007. This new partnership withAlianza Verde is a result of CentroHumboldts' strong networks withindigenous communities that it hasestablished over more than a decade.The new project will result in develop-ment of local strategies for resourcemanagement and sustainable develop-ment for indigenous communitiesacross Honduras and Nicaragua.

Learn more about Centro Humboldt at:www.humboldt.org.ni

extreme poverty, very limited access toservices, and health and nutritionalproblems, they also possess immenseand valuable traditional knowledge andhold creative strategies for the sustain-able development.

Centro Humboldt and the communitiesof the BOSAWAS biosphere have begunto address their specific health needsthrough the use of traditional remedies,the training of community health pro-moters and the promotion of nutrition-al education. This project has beenenriched by visits from CFCA'sCanadian partner, Kindness in Action,who have sent dental delegations tothese remote communities. This pastyear CFCA also completed constructionof a primary school in the BOSAWAScommunity of Pamkawas, at which 300students will attend classes.

Change for Children’s partnership with Centro Humboldt enablesCanadians to contribute to the preservation of the precious CentralAmerican rainforest and support the indigenous peoples who call it home.

HUMAN RIGHTS200,000 Nicaraguans are reached by aChildren's Human Rights Campaign designedand promoted by the 5,700 children and youthwho participated in CFCA's project with long-term partners INPHRU and FUNARTE.

CAPACITY BUILDINGHurricane STAN relief projects in El Salvadorand Guatemala not only meet communitiesimmediate basic human needs but developstrategies to stimulate social and economicgrowth and reconstruction in indigenous com-munities worst hit by the 2005 natural disaster.

LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP300 students begin classes in the remote com-munity of Pamkawas in Nicaragua's BOSAWASbiosphere in their new school, the 'nicest build-ing in the region.' In Sierra Leone, the studentsof the Alberta Primary School, supported byCFCA's Edmonton partner Tamarineh Society,receive the country's top scores in their pri-mary school examination.

WELLNESS8 HIV positive community health promotersare reducing stigma and encouraging safe sex-ual practices in Roatan, Honduras. CFCA part-ner, Familias Saludables says “they have gonefrom being women barely able to say, “I haveHIV” to women who are strong, proud andloud”.

PARTNERSHIPUniversity of Alberta students worked on asemester-long project that culminated in abeautiful video production highlighting thelong-term partnership between Change forChildren, the Salvadoran community ofEdmonton and the Christian Base Communitiesof El Salvador (CEBES).

INNOVATIONOfficials from the Nicaraguan governmentvisit CFCA's wells project in rural Nicaraguaand comment that the project, which will reach70 communities in dry areas of Nicaragua, notonly provides safe drinking water but engagescommunities in sustainable water manage-ment.

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Our Approach Impacts2006–2007

Change for Children is not about charity, it is about building capacity. Ourorganization is based on partnerships in the truest sense of the word. Nurturedthrough trust, mutual respect and close, evolving relationships, many of CFCA'spartnerships are deepened by Change for Children's connections with diaspora,immigrant and refugee communities in Canada and Alberta. For instance, rela-tionships with Guatemalan, Chilean, Sierra Leonean and El Salvadoran commu-nities in Edmonton allow us to develop projects that reach communities in need.These projects develop sustainable solutions while resonating with Canadians'visions of cooperation. Our relationships and partnerships inform CFCA'sapproach to community development, which is based upon supporting creativeand transformative projects in key programming areas.

Our programming both in Canada and internationally is rooted in a commit-ment to fostering partnership, in promoting gender equality, in principles ofenvironmental sustainability and in commitment to valuing and supportingindigenous perspectives and development. These commitments enable Changefor Children to grow and innovate along with our partners in ways that areresponsible, creative and grounded in solidarity.

We challenge Canadians to play an active role in working for peace, democracy,human rights and a more equitable world. We also provide opportunities forCanadians to develop relationships with communities globally.

Photo: Mark Kelly, Flaman Operations Manager meets the Mayor of Paso Hondo, Nicaragua

development of community healthinfrastructure (water and sanitation)and through vocational training, healthpromotion, addressing malnutritionand providing educational opportuni-ties.

GUATEMALA

Cuatros Caminos, ComitancilloPartners: AMMID, WRF,

private donorsCFCA is supporting the construction ofa primary school in this rural communi-ty that was gravely affected byHurricane STAN. Community mem-bers said that building a new primary

Cuernavaca, MorelosPartners: Comunidad,

private donorsLong-time CFCA partner, Comunidad,works with vulnerable communities inCuernavaca to develop local and sus-tainable strategies to meet their develop-ment needs. CFCA is collecting dona-tions to support a project that will reha-bilitate a much-needed health care cen-tre in a community of factory workers.

Cuernavaca, MorelosPartners: Caminamos Juntos

Caminamos Juntos works to make a dif-ference in the lives of children inCuernavaca through supporting the

MEXICO

Tlaquepaque (outskirts of Guadalajara), Jalisco

Partners: Fundacion Santa Maria,private donorsWith CFCA support a group of womenwho had been working in maquilladorafactories far from their homes set up asewing cooperative. Now the womenwork closer to home, have shared child-care facilities in their work place andearn a living wage. They also producestunning garments made of organic cot-ton that never fail to impress.

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BUILDING CAPACITY, BUILDING COMM

Basic Human Needs

Health and Nutrition

HIV/AIDS Preventionand Treatment

Basic and Alternative Education

Sustainable Agriculture

Indigenous Peoples’ Culturaland Environmental Preservation

Child Protection: Outreach,Advocacy and Support

Promoting Human Rights, Democracyand Good Governance

Capacity Development andIncome Generation for Women

Programming Areas

Photos: top: Ceiba Herrada Community Water Project, Nicaragua; bottom (l-r): Acupuncturist delegation, Nicaragua; BOSAWAS, Nicaragua; primary school, Guatemala

Change for Children’s international projects are grounded in partnership, respect andmutual learning, which enables us to develop responsive and innovative initiatives thatanswer needs defined by the communities in which we work. These projects foster sus-tainability, leadership and creativity in addition to responding with positive change tothe challenges facing our partners.

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EDUCATION ANDKNOWLEDGE FOR ACTION

Public engagement activities in 2006/07focused specifically on HIV/AIDS,Environmental Justice and the Rights ofthe Child. Collaboration is key in allpublic engagement activities and manyof this year’s programming was donewith partnership of many Albertaorganizations.

Multi-media, visual arts, music andcommunications technology are regulartools that CFCA uses to inform andengage the public in these issues.

Also CFCA connects communitieswithin Alberta through collaborativeevents with common cause organiza-tions and also across borders throughdelegations and internships.

COALITIONS ANDSTRENGTHENINGPARTICIPATION

CFCA's work in Canada also focuses onstrengthening the capacity of NGOsand building stronger coalitions of civilsociety organizations in Alberta.Through advocacy, influencing policy,and public engagement activities,CFCA plays an active role in variouscoalitions and is currently an Executivemember of the Alberta Council forGlobal Cooperation. CFCA is also amember of the Saskatchewan Councilfor Global Cooperation and active inMake Poverty History and MillenniumDevelopment Goal Campaigns.

Photos (clockwise from top left): Edmonton Journalarticle on Rural Roots; Bashaw Alberta-youthleadership training photo; cover of Building Bridgesnewsletter; Millennium Development Goal art project;Project Hope in Nicaragua; poster for InternationalDevelopment Week; poster for “Doctors & Derrieres”event.

JUSTICE | CANADIAN PROJECTS

YOUTH ENGAGEMENT

CFCA recognizes that youth are diverseand have multiple skills and ideas thatare needed to address complex globalissues. CFCA's youth programming isdriven by youth, builds leadershipcapacity and encourages long term par-ticipation. 2006/07 focused on increas-ing engagement of rural communitiesand rural youth; building rural/urbannetworks; supporting all Alberta youthto connect with civil society organiza-tions and increasing participation ofyouth in international campaigns andpolicy such as MillenniumDevelopment Goals. Change forChildren is also a host organization foruniversity student practicum place-ments and had 7 students over the year.International Youth internships are alsoa part of key programming for youth.

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For over thirty years, Change for Children has prioritizededucation that fosters awareness and action on issues thatare of pressing concern for Canadians such as povertyreduction, environmental justice, human rights, andCanadian foreign policy. Participatory Global Education isan intrinsic aspect to achieving long term social change.Change for Children delivers education programmingthat is diverse, creative, inter-generational, sustainedand promotes participatory global education as intrin-sic to achieving long-term social change.

In Alberta, CFCA is a leader in realizing activities thatbuild the capacity of civil society to participate in interna-tional cooperation and encourage all sectors of Canadiansociety to foster global citizenship.

Much of CFCA’s innovation is inspired by our collabora-tive relationships with artists, musicians and committedindividuals within the media who offer new, creative waysto reach more people.

PARTNERS IN LEARNING FOR GLOBAL

school for their children was their toppriority for post-hurricane recovery. Theschool will offer classes in Spanish aswell in the local indigenous language.

EL SALVADOR

Tierra Blanca, UsulutanPartners: CEBES El Salvador,

CEBES EdmontonFor many years CFCA has supportedthe Monseñor Romero PopularResource Centre, which offers excitingprogramming to at-risk youth in TierraBlanca. In 2007 we also supported aHurricane STAN relief project and haverecently begun to support a creative

stigma and discrimina-tion and increasing aware-

ness about HIV/AIDS and therights of those affected by it.

ST. VINCENT

St. VincentPartners: Bread of Life

Orphanage, private donorsMany children on the Caribbean islandof St. Vincent have lost their parents toHIV/AIDS. The Bread of LifeOrphanage offers them a home and achance at a normal life, with program-ming including education, recreation,health programming and counseling.

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MEXICO.

GUATEMALA.

EL SALVADOR.

CHILE.

.HONDURAS

.NICARAGUA

BRAZIL

health project in which poor communi-ties have partnered with each other toensure access to essential health services.

HONDURAS

RoatanPartners: Familias Saludables, CIDA

In this project a group of women livingwith AIDS have been trained as com-munity educators and are having a hugeimpact on the Honduran island ofRoatan. Radio education campaigns,parades, employer education and healthevents, along with access to freeHIV/AIDS testing and improved treat-ment facilities are dramatically reducing

ST. VINCENT.

Projects are supported by donations from our supporters, and in some casesby grants from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) andthe Wild Rose Foundation of Alberta (WRF).

Photos (l-r): Children in Tierra Blanca, El Salvador; Mother & child, Roatan, Honduras; The Bread of Life Orphanage, St. Vincent

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UNITIES | INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS

Nicaragua where access to potable wateris a major challenge. Not only does theproject build water systems, it involvesthe community in developing a strategyto manage them in a sustainable way tobenefit generations to come.

EsteliPartners: FUNARTE, Project HOPE,Kindness in Action

Volunteers from Grant MacEwanCommunity College's Project HOPEfundraised an impressive $70,000before traveling to Nicaragua to build acommunity centre for CFCA long-timepartner, FUNARTE. In the centre,FUNARTE will offer regular muralism,art and human rights workshops tohundreds of children. The Alberta-based organization, Kindness in Action,also sent a delegation of volunteer den-tal professionals to Esteli, where theteam provided basic dental care to com-munities in need.

MulukukuPartners: Women's Empowerment

Network, private donorsMulukuku is a small, remoteNicaraguan community where themajority of people live in poverty butwhere the community has been able tomobilize itself to do incredible things.CFCA supports the Women'sEmpowerment Network to providemuch needed community health servic-es, to prevent family violence and toprovide educational programming forchildren and young people.

NICARAGUA

BOSAWAS BiospherePartners: Centro Humboldt, CIDA

CFCA has previously worked to pro-mote the use of natural medicines tomeet health needs in the remote, indige-nous communities of the BOSAWASrainforest biosphere. Now, this projectworks to establish community pharma-cies that will stock both natural andconventional remedies and will dissemi-nate essential health and nutrition infor-mation to communities that otherwisewould have to spend days traveling toaccess basic health services.

Esteli and ManaguaPartners: FUNARTE, INPHRU, CIDA

Two of CFCA's long-term partners havepartnered to address growing concernsof youth violence and increasing inci-dence HIV/AIDS in Nicaragua.Working with youth-at-risk this projectoffers education about violence andHIV/AIDS and engages young peoplein developing education campaigns tocombat them. FUNARTE andINPHRU employ their inspiring arteducation methodologies, using mural-ism, theatre, dance and music to getyouth involved.

70 communities in Chinandega,Esteli and Leon

Partners: Centro Humboldt, CIDA,Flaman Foundation, private donorsThis project, which began in 2005, hasrecently been expanded and will reach atotal of 70 rural communities in

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BRAZIL

Maceio, AlagoasPartners: Thalita, private donors

A long-time CFCA partner, the ThalitaHope and Life centre, offers innovativeprogramming to support girls living onthe street and to help them make posi-tive changes towards building new livesoff of the street. The project includeseducational, health and counseling serv-ices in addition to provide youngwomen with shelter.

CHILE

SantiagoPartners: La Caleta, WRF

The Chilean government has commit-ted itself to protecting children's rightsand to encouraging their participationwith its signing of the Convention onthe Rights of the Child. The childrenand young people involved in this proj-ect work to make these promises realityby developing their own rights cam-paign and taking it on the road with the'magic bus'.

TANZANIA

MoshiPartners: Amani Children's Home,

Hands Across AfricaThis shelter, in the town of Moshi at thebase of Mount Kilimanjaro, housesnearly 60 children who otherwise wouldbe living on the street. Here the childrenare provided with a safe and loving homealong with education and health care.

Photos (l-r): FUNARTE youth, Nicaragua; Santa Teresa water project, Nicaragua; the La Caleta team, Chile

BUILDING CAPACITY, BUILDING COMMUNITIES | INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS

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SOUTH AFRICA

Ndawana, KwaZulu-NatalPartners: Edzimkulu, Hands Across

AfricaThe small community of Ndawana inSouth Africa has been decimated byHIV/AIDS. Edmonton communitymembers have shown an amazingamount of energy and passion in sup-porting this community to developsolutions to its HIV/AIDS crisis,including health care and education ini-tiatives.

SIERRA LEONE

Romano VillagePartners: Romano Village,

Tamarineh Society EdmontonFor several years CFCA has supportedthe efforts of the Edmonton basedTamarineh Society, run by a SierraLeonean woman dedicated to making adifference in home village, which wasseverely affected by Sierra Leone's

UGANDA

MbararaPartners: Ainembabazi Children's

Project Uganda and EdmontonAinembabazi means 'having grace' inthe local language of Mbarara. CFCA'spartners in this project live up to theirname, developing responsive program-ming for the children of Mbarara whoare being dramatically affected by theHIV/AIDS crisis and raising awarenessabout the crisis in Uganda and inCanada.

decade long war. The Tamarineh Societyhas built a primary school in the village,that attracts students from surroundingcommunities and whose studentsrecently scored highest on the nationalexams. Tamarineh is currently improv-ing the school and has plans to build asecondary school.

MoyambaPartners: Moyamba Rehabilitation

Clinic, Hands Across AfricaWhen the Edmonton based group,Hands Across Africa, decided to raisemoney to support projects in Africa, aproject focused on rehabilitation thera-py was important to them as many ofthe group work at the Glenrose hospital.Working with CFCA, the group hasbeen able to support this clinic, whichprovides much-needed rehabilitationtherapy, prosthesis and counseling topeople injured in the war in SierraLeone, in an area where there are fewother medical services.

SIERRA LEONE.

.TANZANIA

UGANDA.

SOUTH AFRICA.

Photo: Children in Ndawana, South Africa

Basic Human Needs

Health and Nutrition

HIV/AIDS Preventionand Treatment

Basic and Alternative Education

Sustainable Agriculture

Indigenous Peoples’ Culturaland Environmental Preservation

Child Protection: Outreach,Advocacy and Support

Promoting Human Rights, Democracyand Good Governance

Capacity Development andIncome Generation for Women

Programming Areas