2017 Annual Report

building partnerships for global justice

CoDevelopment Canada

HANDS WITH PEACE

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Changes at CoDevIn dynamic fashion, 2016 brought new changes and challenges to CoDev. Executive Director Kirsten Daub was granted a one-year leave on April 1 to pursue a contract at CUPE 1004. CoDev took this opportunity to reorganize our programming department, returning to our old model of one Program Director for Education and one to manage other partnerships.

We hope this new structure will improve our ability to support Canadian and Latin American partners, while freeing the Executive Director for greater participation in important Canadian-based coalitions working for social justice in trade, corporate accountability, human rights and international development.

Former Program Director Steve Stewart assumed the role of CoDev’s new interim Executive Director. Wendy Santizo moved from Program Assistant to Education Program Director. Wendy is responsible for partnerships between Canadian teacher organizations and their counterparts throughout Latin America. New Program Director Maria Paola Wong comes to us from Casa-Pueblito in Toronto, and is responsible for coordinating partnerships between Canadian labour and community organizations and their partners in Central America and Colombia.

CoDev is also encouraged with the federal government announcing in mid-June its long-awaited new “Feminist International Assistance” policy. The new policy prioritizes the following areas of work:

• Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls

• Human dignity

• Growth that works for everyone

• Environment and climate action

• Inclusive governance

• Peace and security

While most of these priorities have long been key areas of CoDev’s work, we have not received any federal contributions for our international development work since the Conservative government eliminated the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in March 2013.

We are grateful to all the Canadian partners who stepped up to help breach the huge funding gap left by the dissolution of CIDA. Given the strong orientation of Canada’s new international development policy towards areas where CoDev has expertise and a proven record, we are optimistic that we will recover funding in the coming year.

In addition to all our Canadian partners, we appreciate all the individuals who give their time and resources to support the impactful work of our partners as they promote public education, human rights and labour rights across the Americas.

In solidarity,

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Empowering Women and Communities through Leadership & Capacity-buildingCoDev proudly supports projects in Latin America that dismantle institutionalized systems of oppression and empower individuals to fight for their rights.

In Guatemala, women face high incidences of gender-based violence, maternal death rates, racism, discrimination, and limited economic and political opportunities. CoDev and the Hawthorne Foundation support two organizations whose work is key to the defense and advancement of women’s rights in the country. The Guatemalan Women’s Sector promotes women’s leadership and presses for legislation protecting women’s rights. Our solidarity enables the Sector to

maintain a national office and to coordinate the work of 32 women’s organizations at the national and regional levels. The Artesana Collective, also supported by the Highland United Church, organizes and facilitates visits between 3,500 children and youth and 1,900 imprisoned mothers and supports medical care for the imprisoned women.

In the 1990s, health care in El Salvador was privatized, resulting in the disenfranchisement of the majority of the population and specifically women and girls. APSIES (the Salvadoran Association for Inter-Municipal Health and Social Services) empowers rural communities to advocate for improved public healthcare and of women’s right to life free of violence. In 2016, APSIES delivered a capacity-building ‘train the trainer’ program on the prevention of pre-natal birth defects; topics included environmental and physical factors affecting fetal development, family planning, reproductive and sexual health, and community prevention efforts. APSIES’s important human rights work is supported by the

BCGEU (British Columbia Government and Service Employees’ Union), the Hospital Employees Union, the Health Sciences Association of British Colombia, and the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators.

In Colombia, NOMADESC (the Association for Research and Social Action) supports communities through strategic lawsuits related to civil, political, economic, cultural and environmental rights abuses. With the support of the BCGEU, the Canadian Alliance of Labour Lawyers, CUPE National, CUPE BC, CUPE 1949 and Unifor, NOMADESC trains youth to become community leaders through the Intercultural University of the Peoples. Last year, NOMADESC coordinated six two-day seminars with 40 youth and community leaders focusing on human rights and development models, social humanism and human-centred development, sovereignty, and technologies for life. Afterwards, participants put theory into practise, analysing issues in the context of their own communities and developing action plans for alternative, human-rights based development and life plan models.

SINTRACUVALLE (the Worker’s Union of Acuvalle) has successfully fought against the privatization of water services for over 14 years. In 2016, they experienced

great success helping communities protect their public water systems, including hosting 600 people in 85 workshops on themes related to public systems and the right to water. SINTRACUAVALLE’s campaigns for water as a human right are generously supported by CUPE National, CUPE BC, CUPE Nova Scotia, and CUPE Newfoundland and Labrador.

YOUTH LEADERS FROM NOMADESC’S INTERCULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE

In Guatemala, women face high incidences of gender-based violence...

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Mexico’s democratic teachers’ movement has been on the forefront of the fight for public education in recent years. From the forced disappearance of 43 student teachers to the repression of nationwide teacher protests in 2016 that left a dozen dead and many more wounded or imprisoned.

The teachers are resisting reforms aimed increasing high stakes testing of students and teachers, and

efforts to shut down rural teacher training colleges (normal schools) and small rural schools.

Totlahtol Yoltok (Our Spoken Word), a teachers’ collective in Northern Veracruz State sprung out of this

Totlahtol Yoltok: Indigenous education with substance

movement and a desire to present alternatives to the homogenization offered by the government reforms.

“Standardized exams hit indigenous students particularly hard,” says Lucía Morales Celestino, a teacher in one of the region’s indigenous schools and member of the Totlahtol Yoltok group, “because the questions are outside our student’s cultural context. The same is true of the closing of rural schools because

it is the indigenous children who will have to travel long distances now to be able to attend school.”

While the Mexican government does offer bilingual education at public schools in the

Nahuatl speaking villages ringing the city of Orizaba, where Totlahtol’s headquarters are, the group believes that success is limited because the teaching is devoid of cultural content. “They use the same content and

The group believes that success is limited because the teaching is devoid of cultural content

TOTAHTOL - MEMBERS OF THE TOTLAHTOL YOLTOK TEACHERS’ COLLECTIVE, CODEV’S NEWEST LATIN AMERICAN PARTNER IN ORIZABA, VERACRUZ.

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methodology as the regular schools, but just switch the words from Spanish to Nahual” says Lucia, “It leaves out our people’s special ways of seeing the world, and of learning.”

With the support of CoDev and the BC Teachers’ Federation, Totlahtol is studying the experience of grassroots indigenous teachers in other states who are implementing community generated indigenous education projects. The Veracruzan teachers

will then apply this knowledge in workshops with Nahuatl communities in the region in order to generate a local program for indigenous education.

This year, Totlahtol plans to link with the Continental Indigenous Educators’ Network, also supported by CoDev and the BCTF, to host an international seminar on indigenous education with participants from Guatemala, Canada and other countries, as well as from various Mexican states. ■

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The Right to a Public Education in Latin AmericaThe struggle for the right to public education in Latin America and the Caribbean is waged across multiple scenarios; against the privatization of public education, against the dismantling of education workers’ social security and the criminalization of students and unionized teachers, and for new equitable and democratic curricula and teaching methodologies with adequate public funding.

An important strategy developed by our partners has been research and curricular transformation to respond to historic debts of inequality. For example Mexican teachers rescuing the indigenous náhuatl language, or Central American educators “un-teaching” gender-based discrimination. We can mention the National

Association of Salvadoran Educators — ANDES — who this year graduated the fifth diploma program for some 100 teachers in “Non Sexist and Inclusive Pedagogy” (NSIP), the Education Workers’ Union of Costa Rica –SEC who this year implemented their new NSIP module “Understanding the world we live in through language”. But most prominent has been the Colombian Educators’ Federation — FECODE — who are reaching important new results in their work to develop a “pedagogy of peace” for post-war Colombia.

During the 60 year armed conflict, unionized teachers not only worked for labour demands, they engaged in social struggles against injustices. Unfortunately, their demands were frequently met with violence. From 1977 to 2016, 1075 members of FECODE were assassinated. Teachers facing the greatest challenges are those teaching in schools in zones where the armed conflict was deepest.

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TEACHERS MARCH IN COLOMBIA

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Honduran teacher shares teaching practices with Canadian counterpartsCoDev often invites Latin American partners to visit Canada to share experiences and information with their Canadian counterparts. In the case of teachers, this can involve sharing innovative teaching practices that may also be applied in Canadian classrooms.

In the last year, Daysi Marquez of Honduras’ embattled high school teachers’ organization (COPEMH) came to share the innovative classroom work she and her colleagues have developed not once, but twice. Daysi is the coordinator of COPEMH’s innovative work in applying the Non-Sexist and Inclusive Pedagogy (NSIP) approach to develop a teaching unit on child emigration.

Every year Honduras exports thousands of children and adolescents who, often unaccompanied, flee north to Canada and the US. COPEMH selected a team of teachers drawn from the five Honduran provinces that export the highest number of children to develop the unit. Using NSIP’s method of encouraging students to analyze issues in the context of their own families and communities, the teachers worked with their students to explore the reasons why so many Honduran youth feel compelled to migrate. Many of the students had friends and siblings who have already emigrated. Working together, the team then created a teaching

unit that explores conditions in Honduras that push youth out, their experiences and perils in the journey, and the consequences of emigration

on children and communities. The team is now training colleagues in its application.

Daysi and Costa Rica NSIP facilitator Esperanza Tasies came to BC in May 2016 where they presented a series of workshops for BC teachers, including a weekend long seminar on NSIP at Camp Alexandra in Crescent Beach.

Daysi returned to Vancouver in late January this year to speak about COPEMH’s NSIP work to the Western Staff Congress of professional staff from the teachers’ federations of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and BC.

Since the 2009 coup in Honduras, COPEMH has faced state repression and sanctions, including the firing of its president and the elimination of the union dues that sustained the organization. Nevertheless, with the support through CoDev of the BCTF, and Alberta and Surrey Teachers’ Associations, COPEMH continues to carry out ground-breaking pedagogical innovation in support of Honduran youth. ■

DAYSI MARQUEZ, HONDURAN HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION NON-SEXIST PEDAGOGY COORDINATOR.

Colombian teachers have been capable of transforming education into a liberating tool. What began as “dreaming of ourselves without war” in the mid 80s, has materialized with the support of CoDev and Canadian teacher partners the CSQ, OSSTF, BCTF and STA into a pedagogical movement and a proposal for “Schools as territories of Peace”. Understanding the school as a micro-universe whose community is not oblivious to the ideas, feelings and actions of the surrounding environment, FECODE has compiled the most successful experiences of schools in conflict zones and has drawn on them to develop a comprehensive educational proposal for promoting peace and reconciliation in the classroom.

During this period, FECODE created a network of local

and provincial pedagogical circles to rescue alternative proposals in education for peace, and to train peers in the implementation of the new proposal. It has carried out seminars around the territorial approach to peace, civic pedagogy for peace, and educated teachers on the Peace Agreements of Havana. FECODE has generated positive conditions for developing concrete curricular transformations to ensure public schools play an integral part building a genuine and lasting peace.

The project is so important to FECODE that the federation insured that education ministry support for its “Schools as territories of Peace” proposal was an integral component of the agreement reached last June that ended a 37-day national strike, which cost the lives of 3 teachers. ■

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Cafe Ético — two decades supporting fairly traded coffeeCafé Ético continues its support of coffee farmers in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cuba and Mexico. In Guatemala, the work of the CCDA (Campesino Committee of the Highlands), that emerged in 1982, has become an influential movement and political force that defend the rights of workers and Mayan farmers in the countryside. It also maintains its commitment to purchase green beans from Chiapas in Mexico and Cuba Serrano from Sierra Maestra.

On December 2016 a project funded by Codev directly benefited 120 families, the Cooperatives Flor de Pancasán and Flor de Dalia in Nicaragua by improving the quality and production of coffee. Women`s participation in the Cooperative`s Board and land titles is growing. They are also establishing agroforestry systems, protecting local source water and planting varieties resistant to coffee rust. Their organic coffee recently became fair trade certified and the quality has significately improved.

Café Ético is currently updating its website and in July it became certified by the Global Organic Alliance. The ongoing support of local organizations, social and environmental causes still at the core of Café Ético`s mission.

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worked for over 5 years with Casa Canadiense – Pueblito Canada (Casa – Pueblito for short), a grassroots organization that facilitates Canadian solidarity with communities in Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador. María Paola fulfilled a number of roles during her time with

Casa – Pueblito, including Youth Outreach Officer, Office Administrator, Program Manager, and lastly as Interim Executive Director. In addition, María Paola also taught an International Development Placement Course at York University, a practical course preparing undergraduate university students to work in international development sector. María Paola strongly believes in the power of solidarity and is honoured to work with CoDev for positive social change in Latin America.

MARÍA PAOLA WONG

CoDev is pleased to welcome María Paola Wong to the team! María Paola brings with her a wealth of knowledge and experiences in education, community development, and international solidarity and we were pleased to have her join us as Program Director this past May.

Born in Managua, Nicaragua María Paola has lived and worked in several provinces across Canada. A certified teacher in BC, NB, NS, and ON, she holds a Master of Arts in History (“Latin America; Women, Genders & Sexualities,” York University, Toronto ON), a Bachelor of Education (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton NB), and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in History (St. Thomas University, Fredericton NB). She joined us in May 2017 from Toronto, where she had previously

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Labour Rights The Honduran Women’s Collective (CODEMUH) and the María Elena Cuadra Movement (MEC) are feminist organizations working to promote women’s rights and specifically those of women workers in maquila (sweatshops) in Honduras and Nicaragua. With the expansion of trade liberalization policies, these Central American countries have seen the rapid growth of free trade zones, where hundreds of foreign companies employ hundreds of thousands of local citizens to work in factories producing goods for export to North American and European markets and including retailers such as Walmart, Target, and Kohl.

Often, the workers employed in the maquilas are young women and single mothers under the age of 30 who have only an elementary education. In other words, the workers are a segment of the local population which has limited access to employment in the formal economy.

Both MEC and CODEMUH have actively continued to advocate for worker’s rights over 2016-2017. In spring 2017, Delta Apparel Honduras fired 40 workers because of injuries sustained on the job. In response, CODEMUH led a campaign to reinstate the workers without conditions and to reinstate them in positions that would no longer be a detriment to their health. At the time of writing (August 2017), this conflict has not been resolved but CODEMUH continues to advocate for the maquila workers’ right to safe work.

In June 2016, factory workers peacefully protesting for access to drinking water, realistic production targets, and the reinstatement of two fired trade unionists were viciously attacked and arrested by the Nicaraguan military police. The police entered a factory, fired shots in the air, threw tear gas, and injured a number of workers who were promptly arrested. MEC quickly mobilized its advocacy team and, with your solidarity, assigned a lawyer to the case.

However, in July 2017, 12 people – including 10 maquila workers – were formally charged for obstruction of functions of the free trade zone and for aggravated damages to a factory. Moreover, the criminal court declared that appeals cannot be filed by the maquila workers. MEC is continuing to advocate for these workers and is preparing to launch an appeal to the Nicaraugan Supreme Court of Justice. ■

CODEMUH FACILITATING A WORKSHOP ON HEALTH, HYGIENE, AND SAFETY IN THE WORKPLACE.

MEC PROTESTING FOR A STOP TO VIOLENCE IN THE WORKPLACE.EMPLOYMENT, YES… BUT WITH DIGNITY!

Central American countries have seen the rapid growth of free trade zones

MAQUILAS AT A GLANCE:

Honduras

• 79% of workers are young women and single mothers between 21 and 29

• 50% only have a primary education

Nicaragua

• 60% of workers are women

• 89% of women workers are under 35 years of age

• 75% of women workers are mothers

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Cuba Solidarity ContainerSince establishing a political dialogue with Cuba in December 2014, the United States government extended the number of US citizens authorized to travel to the Island, took Cuba off its list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, reopened embassies in Washington and La Habana, and authorized the exportation of goods and services for telecommunications. However, even after US president Obama’s visit to Havana in March 2016, the US government continued to apply economic sanctions against the Island and in September 2016, renewed yet another year of the Trade with the Enemy Act. The new US president has rolled back some of those advances and announced more coercive actions against Cuba. These measures are exacerbated by the Helms-Burton and Cuban Democracy Acts which sanction foreign companies trading with the island

Together these measures have a significant impact on everyday life of the Cuban people, given the restrictions for exporting and importing food, fuel, obtaining water purification cylinders, buying medicines or supplying clinics and hospitals with the proper tools.

CoDev partners the National Union of Public Workers (SNTAP) and the Cuban Teachers’ Union (SNTECD) are also affected by the blockade. Cuban workers have limited access to equipment and technology for promoting the union activism, professional development

or carrying out their union responsibilities. Since Cuban unions are funded through membership dues and those are paid in Cuban pesos, they lack the hard currency needed to purchase equipment not produced in Cuba. But even when hard currency is available, the economic blockade makes it hard to purchase such things as computer equipment and

spare parts within the country. For this reason, SNTAP and SNTECD this year have requested that their Canadian partners send a container of equipment and parts they can’t get in Cuba. This solidarity container

for Cuba workers will enhance the union’s services and communications with their membership.

We are happy to partner with the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF), the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) to help equip Cuban workers’ unions and stand in solidarity with their interests of independence and sovereignty.

Cuba has a right to determine their political, economic and social systems without interference from other States. To stop the US blockade against Cuba, strong ties of solidarity with Cuban workers are needed, along with open and respectful dialogue about ideological differences. ■

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Over our 31-year history CoDev has been privileged to have a dedicated and loyal group of supporters. This year is no exception. We are grateful to all of you, including those who choose to

remain anonymous, for your commitment to CoDev and our Latin American Partners. Whether you are a monthly partner in solidarity, an annual supporter, or a member, your gifts have made a significant difference to the lives of women, workers, families and communities in Latin America and Canada. Thank you for your solidarity! If anyone you know would be interested in supporting CoDev, please have them contact Cindy at cpandini@codev.org.

CoDev 2016/17 Canadian Partners Alberta Teachers’ Association • British Columbia Government and Service Employees’ Union • British Columbia Teachers’ Federation • Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers • Canadian Union of Public Employees, BC • Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 1949 • Canadian Union of Public Employees, National • Canadian Union of Public Employees, Newfoundland and Labrador • Canadian Union of Public Employees, Nova Scotia • Centrale des Syndicats du Québec • Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of British Columbia • Hawthorne Charitable Foundation • Health Sciences Association of BC • Highland United Church • Hospital Employees’ Union • Ometepe-Gulf Islands Friendship Association • Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation • Surrey Teachers’ Association • United Nurses of Alberta • Unifor

VOLUNTEERSThanks to all of our amazing and dedicated volunteers! CoDev and Café Etico thrive because of you! Special Shout Out to Kathy Ellis, Carol Crabtree and Dean Sinnett!

CoDev 2016/17 Latin American PartnersAssociation for Diversification and Development of Communal Agriculture (ADDAC, Nicaragua) • National Association of Salvadoran Teachers 21 of June (ANDES) • Central American Women’s Network

in Solidarity with Maquila Workers • Casa ArteSana (Guatemala) • Colombian Educators’ Federation (FECODE) • Federation of Central American Teachers’ Organizations (FOMCA) • General Confederation of Nicaraguan Education Workers (CGTEN-ANDEN) • Guatemalan Women’s Sector • Honduran High School Teachers’ College (COPEMH) • Honduran Women’s Collective (CODEMUH) • Honduran Professional College of Teachers (PRICPHMA) Initiative for Democratic Education in the Americas (IDEA) • María Elena Cuadra Movement for Employed and Unemployed Women (MEC, Nicaragua) • National Union of Education, Science and Sports Workers (SNTECD, Cuba) • National Union of Public Administration Workers (SNTAP, Cuba) • Panamanian Educators’ Reform Movement (FREP) • Salvadoran Association for Intercommunity Health and Social Services (APSIES) • Social Research and Action Association (NOMADESC, Colombia) • Totlatol Yoltok/National Union of Educators of Ecuador (UNE) • Union of Educational Workers of Costa Rica (SEC) • Union of Educational Workers of Peru (SUTEP) • Union of Workers of Acuavalle (SINTRACUAVALLE, Colombia)

CoDev Staff 2016/17EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Kirsten Daub (on leave) INTERIM ED Steve StewartPROGRAM DIRECTOR: Wendy Santizo

PROGRAM DIRECTOR: Maria Paola Wong

COMMUNICATIONS & DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR: Cindy Pandini

FINANCE & OPERATIONS DIRECTOR: Jeffrey Cramer

CAFÉ ETICO COORDINATOR: Francisco Gomez

CoDev Board of Directors 2016/17PRESIDENT: Megan Ashbury, Advocacy, BCGEU VICE-PRESIDENT: Nancy Hawkins, Retired BCTF TREASURER: Nicki Benson, Teacher, Esperanza Education SECRETARY: Carol Wood Campaigns Officer, BCGEU MEMBER-AT-LARGE: Diana Alvarez, Marine Biologist

• Josh Berson, Photographer • Deborah Bourque, Retired HEU staff • Byron Cruz, Healthcare Worker • Jan Eastman, Retired BCTF • Agnes Jackman, HSA member • Alexandra Henao, Community Organizer • Anne McDonald, Retired teacher, BCTF • Paloma Pacheco • Marion Pollack, Retired staff, CUPW • Susan Weber, Retired Media Librarian

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VOLUNTEER PROFILE

Carol CrabtreeCoDev counts among its volunteers some extraordinary people. Carol Crabtree is one of those remarkable people. Hear from Carol in her own words.

I am lucky enough to be retired (with sufficient resources) to be able to spend my time working for changes we need and which I would like to see in our world. I enjoy being a member of Solidarity Notes Labor Choir, a group of activists who know music is a language that can educate and connect us. And because climate change is one of the most impactful situations facing us today, I choose to spend a great deal of energy on this. In a former part of my life, I was a social worker, working with a community mental health team. It was there that I became acutely aware of the experience of marginalization for certain groups. Hence, my interest in social justice. I believe in the cause of and continue to stand up for social justice. That’s what draws me to CoDev.

When and how did you first learn about CoDev?

I first learned about CoDev from folks in the Solidarity Notes Choir. Several of them were CoDev board members and supported CoDev by ordering coffee from Cafe Etico. I volunteered to organize a group coffee order for Solidarity Notes and then, as I got to know people at Cafe Etico and CoDev started to volunteer one day a week at the office, bagging coffee.

What inspired you to become a donor?

Actually I am not a financial donor of CoDev. I donate my time. In addition to volunteering one day a week at Cafe Etico, I have assisted in other projects such as assisting with the Just Film Festi-val and the CoDev Annual Fundraising and Solidarity Dinner. I also have sold Cafe Etico Coffee at union gatherings and CoDev fundraising events.

What aspects of CoDev’s work resonate with you?

The part of CoDev’s work that resonates with me is the defending of human rights in the countries where they offer support to worker’s cooperatives. I also love working with the team of people at CoDev and respect each member of the staff. I see that each member brings different talents to the

mix. Lastly, I would say that I am inspired by the sense of solidarity that exists between CoDev and other Labour groups.

Why do you volunteer with CoDev?

I volunteer with CoDev as I enjoy the feeling of working as a part of a team. I also enjoy the weekly contact with the CoDev staff. I enjoy our conversation over the lunch table about many different topics and respect their points of view about world events and the changing times we are living in.

What does solidarity mean to you?

Solidarity to me means working together to produce an environment that works for everybody. Solidarity means ensuring no one is excluded.

If you or anyone you know would like to join our team and volunteer your time, we’d love to have you. Contact us at codev@codev.org for more information.

CAROL CRABTREE

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Consolidated Statements of Financial Position

YEARS ENDED

March 31, 2017 March 31, 2016

ASSETS Cash and Cash Equivalents

Unrestricted $303,668 $294,101

Restricted 255,093 290,113

558,761 584,214

Accounts Receivable 50,323 25,198

Prepaid Expense 9,294 19,320

Coffee Purchase Deposit 7,649 4,213

Inventory 29,499 34,856

Capital Assets, at cost less depreciation 8,946 12,337

664,472 680,138

LIABILITIES Accounts Payable 36,727 61,540

Deferred Project Receipts 145,741 159,972

182,468 221,512

NET ASSETS $482,004 $458,626

Consolidated Statements of Receipts, Disbursements and Net Assets YEARS ENDED

March 31, 2017 March 31, 2016

RECEIPTS Project contributions from Canadian Partners $854,747 $910,492

Donations 87,168 94,637

Events, memberships, and product sales 40,109 41,508

Café Ético sales 106,129 113,368

Grant from CoDev Endowment Fund 59,395 150,294

Interest and other income 4,110 4,404

1,151,658 1,314,703

EXPENDITURES Direct disbursements-other projects 679,588 806,696

Self-funded direct project disbursements 5,000 10,651

Café Ético costs 121,163 114,800

Fundraising 59,329 57,173

Agency operations and program management 263,200 286,366 1,128,280 1,275,686

EXCESS OF RECEIPTS OVER EXPENDITURES 23,378 39,017

NET ASSETS, BEGINNING OF YEAR 458,626 419,609

NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR $482,004 $458,626

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