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Celebrating 10 Years and Growing!
Can it really be 10 years? Starting with a
small gathering at Scarboro Missions in
May, 2003 and an enthusiastic board of
directors, we worked to put together an
organization with a desire to fund educa-
tional projects in developing countries.
Beginning with a small grant of $1200.00
to the lunch program in Barahona, Do-
minican Republic, we have grown, fund-
ing projects in Dominican Republic, Peru,
El Salvador and Chile and working with a
budget of over $20,000.00 in 2013. We
work with community groups, organiza-
tions, individuals and church groups both
in Canada and abroad. You can read about
our current projects on the following pag-
es.
We had a number of events here in Cana-
da and abroad to celebrate our anniversary
and to raise funds for our projects. The
Learning for Hope students under the
leadership of board members Andrew
McLaughlin and Shedia Serráo-Fredericks
hosted another Zumba night in February
for students and the community at St.
Mary’s High School. A big thank you to
Linda Raponi and the Harmony Center for
their support and promotion and for lead-
ing the Zumba. It was great fun for all
participants.
In March, LAFONTAINE hosted their
annual fashion show at their store in
downtown Whitby showing the latest
trends for spring and summer to the de-
light of the sellout crowd. And a generous
donation to CAFE was gratefully accept-
ed. Thank you LAFONTAINE for your
continued support.
The student group again were busy sell-
ing chocolate gifts for Mothers’ Day.
Many thanks to Shedia for her beautiful
designs for the gifts and to Naomi Lee
Elsier of CHOCO-LEE, who donated the
delicious chocolate.
Our big event of the year was the Gala
Dinner and silent auction to celebrate our
tenth anniversary. Held at Al Dente Res-
taurant in Pickering on May 25, almost
100 of you joined us for a delicious din-
ner. We had an opportunity to look back,
celebrate the present and look to the fu-
ture with optimism. A number of past
board members were there to celebrate
with us and we were able to recognize
organizations and individuals who have
helped us in special ways over the last 10
years.
Our new partners, the Learning for Hope
students, shared with us their hopes and
dreams. Many people contributed to the
success of the evening. Thanks go out to
all of our board members for their work
promoting and selling tickets. Special
thanks to Mary Lou and Maurice Laramee
for coordinating the silent auction and
50/50 draw, to Shedia Serráo-Fredericks
for arranging the venue and getting the
plaques, to Mary Platt for the special
CAFE keepsake prepared for our special
donors and to Yosan Menendez, our MC
for the evening. Thanks as well to all who
donated items for the silent auction. And
to the staff at Al Dente, we are grateful for
their excellent service. It was a wonderful
event!
In Dominican Republic, our anniversary
was acknowledged with an interview on
Dominican television and an article in the
national Catholic newspaper.
Coming events to put on your calendar-
our Annual General Meeting, November
21, 2013 at 7:30 PM to be held at 926
Byron St. N., Whitby. Join us for dessert
and coffee and a celebration of 10 years.
RSVP at [email protected]
or leave a message at 289-800-3122
Carmen Muñoz Franco, coordinator of
Centro Anay in Cusco, Peru will be visit-
ing in December. Details to follow.
And in spring, 2014, we are looking for-
ward to hosting another golf tournament.
Year in Review
Annual Newsletter 2013
Autumn 2013
CAFE’s current Board of Directors
Learning for Hope bake sale
Linda Raponi of the Harmony Centre receives plaque in appreciation of her
support
in these free workshops offer-
ing information on new teach-
ing techniques, dealing with
students with discipline issues
and recognizing students with
special needs. TMA, a Cana-
dian organization is providing
an excellent resource to Do-
minican teachers enabling
them to share information and
techniques with their col-
leagues. CAFE is proud to
work with TMA and Domini-
can teachers, helping to im-
prove the quality of education
in the Dominican Republic.
In their report to CAFE
following the workshops, the
teachers from Santiago stated
their goal for the future:
“Our mission is to become
future teacher mentors, able to
guide and to include other
With help from a Spanish
organization, people in the
church community and
CAFE, the mobile library
group is realizing one of its
long term goals. Since 2006,
we have funded this dedicated
group to bring library ser-
vices, cultural exposure and
remedial help for school work
to children in disadvantaged
communities around Arequi-
pa, Peru. With a tent and a
van, they visited these com-
munities providing access to
educational resources not
available to them. Their long
term goal has always been to
establish permanent facilities
in these communities giving
the children regular access to
these important resources.
And this year, they are putting
the finishing touches on a
permanent building in the
community of Galaxia and the
children will be able to bor-
row books and have a place to
work on projects, do home-
work and receive remedial
help.
A grant from CAFE this
year will help pay for the pur-
chase and installation of doors
and windows for this new
facility. We are also review-
ing a request for funding for
the mobile library to continue
its work in the other commu-
nities in 2014.
collaboration in
2012, CAFE is
working with
Teacher Men-
tors Abroad
(TMA) to pro-
vide continuing
education to
elementary
teachers in Do-
minican Repub-
lic. With a total
of 7 teachers
from Santiago
having attended
the workshops
and working
with a volunteer
group in Santiago, we are
aiming to bring the work-
shops to the Santiago area by
2015. This will allow many
teachers from Santiago and
surrounding areas to take part
CAFE sponsored five
teachers from Santiago, Do-
minican Republic to attend
teacher workshops in the cap-
ital Santo Domingo this past
July. Building on our initial
Permanent facility under constructionin Arequipa
Children enjoying a snack at the mobile library
CAFE Partners with TMA Again
Congratulations! To the Arequipa Team
Supporting Communities in their Struggle for Education
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Annual Newsletter 2013
JOIN US at our Annual General
Meeting
November 21, 2013
7:30pm at 926 Byron St North
Whitby, ON
RSVP at
leave a message at 289-800-3122
educators in the process of
improving the quality of edu-
cation through innovation and
a commitment to a learning
community.”
Younger children working on their colouring skills
Teachers from Santiago, Canada and Haiti on the last day of workshops
The Santiago CAFE/TMA team—looking to the future
and unusable and unsafe for
the students especially in the
rainy season. Working togeth-
er as a community and with
financial help from CAFE,
there is now a clean paved
space for the students. Well
done, AGAPE and all the
volunteers!
Corporación Servicio Evan-
gélico para el Desarollo
(SEPADE) located in Con-
cepción, Chile with financial
support from CAFE offered a
series of workshops and train-
ing skills in leadership, de-
bates and conflict resolution
to 50 (31 boys and 19 girls)
students attending the Liceo
Tecnico Profesional de la
Madera. The workshops took
place between July and De-
cember 2012.
These students demonstrated
leadership qualities and will
take their newly learned skills
into the communities where
they live and work.
These type of workshops are
new to the students of this
technical school and they are
aware that these new skills
will enhance their ability to
better serve their communities
as young leaders. SEPADE
hopes that these workshops
will continue to be offered to
the students at this technical
school.
Asociación AGAPE de El
Salvador along with 98 com-
munity volunteers took part in
this project at the Central
School in Buenos Aires de
Armenia, Sonsonate region.
The project involved the up-
grade and paving of the
schoolyard to allow students
to use the space for recess and
school activites including
sports and group events. The
yard was in very poor shape Workshop participants in
Concepcion, Chile
School Yard Upgrade in El Salvador
CAFE Supports Leadership Workshops in Chile
Supporting Communities in their Struggle for Education
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Children using the new playground
Annual Newsletter 2013
the Nuevo Amparo communi-
ty.
350 children and adoles-
cents are registered to receive
a nutritious meal on each
school day, giving them the
energy to learn and concen-
trate on their studies.
The program has been run-
ning since 1990 and was
CAFE’s first project in 2003.
Tangible results have been
realized over the years with
the community seeing de-
creases in malnutrition, illiter-
acy and early pregnancy.
Many children now go on
to high school. As well, stu-
dents learn the value of work-
ing together and many return
to volunteer with the program
when they get older.
The program also reaches
out to the community, receiv-
ing donations from local
farmers and businesses and a
group of mothers from the
community prepare and serve
the lunch.
The lunch program in
Barahona, Dominican Repub-
lic offers a nutritious meal to
elementary school children in
Lunch Program Continues to Provide Hope
Christmas lunch, Barahona Dressed in their best, the children gather for Christ-
mas celebration 2012
Financial Snapshot - 2012
For the financial period of
2012, CAFE increased their
revenue from $15,817 in 2011
to $41,367. They received
$24,915 in donations, $10,690
came from the golf tourna-
ment, and $5762 came from
Learning for Hope when they
joined with CAFE.
Expenditures for 2012 totaled
$35,904. Program grants ac-
counted for 79% of total ex-
penditures at $28,425, a big
increase from 2011. CAFE
continues to be dedicated to
ensuring that we utilize your
donations to the maximum
extent for the programs we
support.
Full financial statements avail-
able upon request.
ing organizations do more
damage than good in the com-
munities across the Sacred
Valley. Little by little, she
developed her own model for
working with communities. In
communities such as Sacaca,
Yanahuara and Paru Paru she
immersed herself in the day to
day life. She participated in
regional assemblies, dia-
logued with parent councils,
knitted with the women and
constructed water canals with
the men. As a result, she be-
came a part of the communi-
ty, understood the true needs
of the community and worked
with the community to put
together proposals for Learn-
ing for Hope projects that
were a true reflection of their
vision for the education of
their own children. To this
day, Carmen is well known
and embraced by communi-
ties across the valley because
they know that she believes in
the power of her own people
and that she is a woman who
is true to her word.
Here in Canada, hundreds
of people think of Carmen as
a member of their family. So
many of us have been touched
by her warmth and strength. I
personally cannot even begin
to count just how many times
she has been there for a mem-
When I first met Carmen
Muñoz Franco in August,
2003, I told her that I was
looking for someone who
would be interested in work-
ing with me to coordinate
educational initiatives in the
Cusco area. She told me that
her dream was to have her
own orphanage; however she
agreed to be the Peruvian face
of Learning for Hope. Since
that time she has organized
the construction of class-
rooms, school farms and com-
puter labs; also, she has coor-
dinated soccer tournaments,
teacher training, provincial
human trafficking forums and
ten trips for groups from Can-
ada. And while she does not
yet have her own orphanage,
in October of 2012 Carmen
opened CENTRO ANAY, an
occupational centre for girls
from two orphanages. Effec-
tively, she has become a
mother for almost fifty young
women.
From the very beginning,
Carmen made it very clear
that she was not looking to
work with anyone who was
going to portray Peruvians in
a negative way. She was look-
ing to work with people, not
for people. After years and
years of working in develop-
ment, she was tired of watch-
ber of the Learning for Hope
community. Her home has
always been opened to us and
she has never shied away
when one of us needed a
place to sleep, a warm bowl
of soup, coca tea or in the
worst case scenarios someone
to help us deal with altitude
sickness or the many other
stomach bugs that come along
with travel. Her spirit, her
smile, her kindness and the
way she lights up the dance
floor have become an im-
portant part of our lives.
Equally impressive is the
way that her fellow Peruvians
are beginning to follow her
leadership. The Centro Anay
is a vibrant community lead
by women and men who are
looking to make a difference
in their community. What
started as knitting classes in
the San Judas orphanage has
become a centre where girls
learn music, dance, karate,
aesthetics and computer
skills.
Carmen embodies every-
thing that Learning for Hope
is and wants to be, and we are
grateful for all that she has
given to Canadians and Peru-
vians alike.
Andrew McLaughlin (Co-
founder Learning for Hope)
Centro Anay’s Founder, Carmen Muñoz
For more information: Phone: 289-800-3122 Mail: 926 Byron St N. Whitby, ON L1N 4P1
email: [email protected] Web: www.canadianaidforeducation.ca
Centro Anay training centre
Betty Anne Platt
Juan Pablo Liriano
Andrew McLaughlin
Clara Gomez
David Mazumdar
Scott Clerk
Maurice Laramee
Mary Lou Laramee
Shedia Fredericks
Mark Lacy
Peter Liriano
CAFE Board
Members
Supporting Communities in their Struggle for Education
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Centro Anay computer class
Annual Newsletter 2012
Carmen (left) knitting with the
community
Carmen with Learning for Hope
group and community
