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Dr. Geoffrey Anguyo is the Executive Director &Founder of Kigezi Healthcare Foundation (KIHEFO) a community based not-for-profit organization in Kabale-Uganda. Dr. Anguyo is a Rotarian & Medical doctor (MB.cHB), he holds post graduate Diploma in HIV/management, Post graduate Certificate in Research methods & writing skills. Post graduate Diploma in project Planning and management.
Dr Geoffrey has nurtured KIHEFO for the last 10 years. He oversees all programs from orphaned children, operations of AIDS clinic, the Nutrition Rehabilitation Center, Savings µfinance scheme for Groups and outreaches to KIHEFO Groups. KIEFHO is one of Change for Children African partners.
7pm to 11 pm ~ Friday, April 30th, 2010
Enterprise Square Gallery 10230 Jasper Ave, Edmonton
Admission by donation · cash bar · live music
5th Annual Event THIS Friday
Baring it all in the name of global health.
Twenty-two U of A medical students volunteered to pose nude for 33 local artists representing Edmonton’s best and brightest talent - all for a good cause. The resulting art work will be auctioned off at the 5th Annual Doctors and Derrières evening reception this Friday, April 30th, 2010 at Enterprise Square Gallery.
"This event is a fabulously original way for medical students and artists to collaborate and make a difference abroad," said Tammy Bach, a second year medical student event organizer and model.
All proceeds benefit Change for Children’s Emergency Social Health Fund in rural El Salvador. This project is an innovative, community-led response to a lack of health services. Using shared transport and a community micro-insurance scheme, this sustainable project ensures that several communities living under the poverty line have regular access to quality health care.
 2009 Development Dinner
Join us in supporting communities working for change in Guatemala at our annual Development Dinner fundraiser. This inspiring event includes cultural performances, exciting live and silent auctions and highlights from our 20 years of partnership with Guatemalan communities. This year’s program also includes the presentation of the 3rd Annual Change for Children Global Education Graduate Scholarship to a University of Alberta student.
Chris Craddock will be the MC. Chris is an Alberta writer, director and performer
Friday, October 2, 2009
The Faculty Club, University of Alberta
11435 Saskatchewan Drive, Edmonton
6pm Cocktails & Auction Viewing
7pm Dinner Service & Program Tickets:$65 per person, $500 for a table of 8
Seating is limited. Please reserve your tickets by Sept 26.
Phone: 780.448.1505 to pay by credit card or Email:patti@changeforchildren.org for info.
Download the invite
 March
13 – 15, 2009
Gull Lake, AB – Gull Lake Centre
Participant Fees: $60 (including meals & accommodations)
• EARLY BIRD SPECIAL - $50 before February 1, 2009
Additional Fees: $15 (transportation from Edmonton to Gull Lake)
(Ages 14 – 19)
Youth
Take Action! Get ready for an amazing weekend of Alberta youth coming
together to unite on addressing global environmental and social
justice issues! Get educated on issues like environmental sustainability,
empowering women, HIV-AIDS, and global poverty through hands-on
workshops! Get passionate for expressing change by exploring your
creative talents and taking part in workshops on dance and spoken
word, drumming, guerilla gardening, graffiti, and more! Get involved
with youth from across the province and start sharing positive ideas
for shaping a better world!
Registration
is on a first come, first serve basis only, and so register today
to reserve your space in the weekend.
Download the registration form (in word)...
Please contact Trina at: ruralroots.cfca@gmail.com if you require transportation from Edmonton to Peace River, or any
additional information.
Visit the Rural Roots page...
Visual
Voice!
The Contest.
Calling all
youth between the ages of 12-20! Change for Children Association
and Rural Roots believe art is a highly effective tool for promoting
social change and we want you to prove us right! Have an opinion
about politics, poverty or the environment? Express it!
Visual Voice! The Contest, asks youth to take a stand against social
injustice by speaking through various forms of art. Are you up to
the challenge?
If you answered
YES to the above, then this contest is for you!!!
Any art is acceptable.
Photography, painting, sculptures, graffiti, drawings, sidewalk
art, etc… the possibilities are endless! All we ask is that
you submit your entry as a digital photo file in tiff format. (Information
on how to do this can be found on Change For Children’s Facebook
Fan page…be sure to look us up!)
Your “Visual
Voice” submission must be e-mailed to ruralroots.visualvoice@gmail.com
no later than Monday, April 13, 2009 at 4:00 pm, mountain standard
time (Alberta time)
Enter your art submission, keeping in mind the theme of ‘Visual
Voice’ and how you can portray a message of activism through
art.
Good luck! We look forward to seeing all of your amazing opinions!
The CFCA & Rural Roots Team
Be the change you want to see in this world- Ghandi
Change for Children
Association
2nd Flr, 10808-124 Street
Edmonton, AB T5M 0H3
Phone: 780.448.1505
www.changeforchildren.org
CFCA sends 40 people to Nicaragua
on dental brigades
 This
month, over 40 dental professionals and helpers will visit our projects
in Nicaragua to offer much needed dental care to children and youth.
These kind people volunteer their time and cover their travel costs
to serve over 1500 patients during a two week period. Change for
Children is also participating in the implementation of an Oral
Health Project in Nicaragua, in conjunction with Kindness in Action,
which adds sustainability and a preventative component to our annual
brigades.
Dr. Don Danchuk, a veteran
participant on Change for Children's dental brigades had this to
say: "This is a really rewarding experience - we are able to
offer our skills for a brief period of time to children in Nicaragua
who would not otherwise have access to dental care, and who are
suffering from serious oral health conditions that could be life
threatening.
We get so much more back than we give though, there is a real sense
of fulfillment that you get from helping these wonderful people
- and they are so grateful for the service. We feel so much love
from the Nicaraguan people that we keep going back for more."
If you are interested
in participating in next year's brigade to the jungles of BOSAWAS
in February of 2010, please contact: Lorena@changeforchildren.org
CFCA's
Global Kids Birthday Club
 When
Ziggy Bessai recently turned 6, he put the call out to his birthday
guests that donations towards the school construction project in
Guatemala would be a great way to celebrate. His party raised $230.
His pal, Michael Mcarthy, was inspired to do the same for his birthday
which soon followed. Last week, Michael delivered $265 in donations
collected at his 7th birthday to the CFCA office! The generousity
and commitment of children like Michael and Ziggy who have made
their birthdays a way to benefit other children has inspired us
to create the Global Kids Birthday Club.
A recent article
in the Edmonton Journal, Bring on some birthday charity instead
highlights the generousity of kids and the impact there birthday
'giving' can have on others.
>> Is
your child interested in being part of the Global Kids Birthday
Club - check out how
easy it is!
Global Kids, Ziggy & Michael, raised almost $500 towards the
construction of a new school for children in Guatemala through their
7th birthday parties!
Radio-Drama
Project a Great Success in Lima, Peru!
 Change
for Children’s Radio Drama Project in the barrio of Villa
El Salvador in Lima, Peru is implemented by Manos Libres, a small
Peruvian NGO that works primarily with women, youth and children
in the urban shanty communities. Teenage mothers learn and employ
creative, empowering methods to tell their stories and offer advice
and resources to their peers. In their role as "radio stars",
these young mothers are neither victims, nor are they powerless.
With Manos Libres they create poignant scripts based on their real
life experiences and share them with other youth over the airwaves.
Radio
is a powerful tool in Villa El Salvador where very few households
have televisions. Together with specialists in theatre, psychology
and health, these young mothers create stories that offer serious
and accessible messages about sexual health, domestic violence and
healthy childcare. These ‘radio-dramas’ also provide
practical advice to young girls about continuing their education,
making safe sexual choices and believing in themselves and their
futures. Phone-in interviews with nurses, doctors, and counselors
are also part of the weekly show, and great musical interludes complete
the unique program created entirely by young people from Villa El
Salvador and listened to by thousands of their peers.
Many
of you donated to this project at our fall Development Dinner fundraiser.
We wanted to let you know that Manos Libres reported that the program
has been an enormous success!
Find
out more about the Radio Drama Project in Peru...
 Maggie
Walt Event benefits Change for Children
Performance Series, Featuring Bill Bourne
Thursday, November 27th, 2008
One of Edmonton's favorite designer shops, Maggie Walt Design, is
offering new clients a special treat with the opportunity to combine
an intimate shopping experience with an intimate concert with Alberta's
legendary Bill Bourne!
This edition of Maggie Walt's Performance Series takes place at
her store on Jasper Ave(concert in the performnce space below).
Tickets are $20 - all proceeds and other fundraising will benefit
Change for Children. Tickets are limited so if an evening of Maggie's
wonderful international designs, supporting CFCA and hearing our
treasured Bill Bourne is a fit for you, call the office soon to
purchase yor ticket: 780-448-1505.
http://www.maggiewalt.com
 La
Lucha Continua
Human Rights in Guatemala
7:00pm,
Thursday November 27, 2008
at the Stanley Milner Public Library
7 Winston Churchill Square, 6th Flr, Room #7
Katherine Laurie,
who has recently returned from Guatemala where she was doing human
rights accompaniment work, will share her experiences working with
massacre survivors, labour and land reform activists, and indigenous
peoples resisting mega- projects such as Canadian mining companies.
This discussion will also examine the human rights context in Guatemala
since the signing of the 1996 peace accords and how we as Canadians
are connected to this reality.
This event is
sponsored by the Guatemala Solidarity Committee and Change for Children.
Admission is
free.
Interested
in supporting our current Guatemala project? Click
here for info
Video
Conference for Hope,
Students kick
off int'l campaign for Guatemala school project with video conference
November 5th, 2008
 Join
the World and make a difference as we work together to raise $50,000
to help build a school for the children of Guatemala with CFCA partner
AMMID.
Participating
in a ‘real-time’ discussion between students in Comitancillo,
Guatemala and students from across North America is a powerful,
powerful thing.
Discussions revolved around everything from globalization to basketball
as rural, indigenous Guatemalan youth were exposed for the first
time to the wonders of video conference technology. Indeed, it was
an incredible and once-in-a-lifetime learning opportunity for all
students who participated in the 3rd Annual Video Conference for
Hope that took place yesterday November 5, 2008. The event was hosted
by Queen Elizabeth High School in Edmonton,Canada. .
Click here for more information...
 Education
Event Sponsored by Change for Children
Change for Children is proud to be a film sponsor at the 27th annual
Global Visions Film Festival and are inviting you to attend this
year’s sponsored film called Memory Books that is screening
on November 9, 2008 at 7:00pm.
http://www.globalvisionsfestival.com/filminfo.php?fid=43
 From
October 18-19, 2008, over 20 young people and 10 youth facilitators
came together in the northern community of Peace River, AB, to talk
about leadership and social justice in their communities and around
the world.
“Discovering
leadership. Friendship. Passion for peace and social justice. Change.
Tackling global issues. Sparking local movements. Breaking down
barriers. Turning apathy on its head. Turning fear into creative
energy. Moving bodies and forces. Challenging old ways. Ideas planted
as seeds. Inspiring ready minds. Raising social responsibility.
Raising young voices. Speak up, step up…take action!”
Visit
the Rural Roots page...
 At
CFCA's Annual Development Dinner October 3, MC Mark Scholz started
the night with CFCA's guiding words: partnership, dignity, health,
support-not charity. He went on to introduce two of our projects
in South America and talk about the solutions these projects offer
communities that have been caught in a cycle of poverty in Bolivia
and Peru. He then set the plan for the night "these communites
need our support and tonight were going to do it"; and that
we did.
When the will
is there, big things can happen and that is what we saw. A room
of 160 people combining high school students to founding CFCA members,
long time supporters to new friends came together to get the job
done. Forty people committed $100 to support the establishment of
an automotive vocational training and income generating shop for
youth in Potosi Bolivia - and the funding for the other three 'shops'
was picked up by donors able to make a larger donations including
the Frank Flaman Foundation, Fountain Tire and Don and Donna Savard.
And that was just the beginning. The evening raised an incredible
$50,000!!!
Rishi Jaipaul
attended the event for the first time. He is a student at Grant
MacEwan and will be a volunteer participant for the 2009 Project
Hope team which will work with CFCA on a community development project
in BOSAWAS Nicaragua - "I am so inspired by what happened and
seeing so many people willing to step up and make a difference...I
am so motivated and excited by what I saw."
The UN declared International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
is October 17.
 Join
Joffrey Lupul and friends on the golf course to support Change for
Children and the Bissel Centre!
There will be golf
prizes, hole events, a putting competition, and a special gift to
take home. Following play, you will enjoy a dinner banquet and an
amazing silent auction filled with unique signed NHL items and more!
Last year’s highlights included great activity holes, a super
live auction with George Laraque, and $50,000 raised by great sponsors,
donors, and participants.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Registration + Breakfast: 6:30AM-8:15AM
Scramble Shotgun Start: 8:30AM
Dinner Banquet, Awards and Auction to follow
The Glendale Golf & Country Club
12440-199 St NW www.theglendale.com
Golf
Package: $265.00 per golfer (GST incl.)
$255.00 registrations prior to June 30 and 2007 participants
(includes continental breakfast, 18 holes, golf cart, dinner banquet,
gift and $100 charitable donation tax receipt)
For more information on registration and sponsorship opportunities
contact Glenn Isaac at 780 554 3848 or glennisaac@live.com or visit
the website at www.jofflupulcharitygolf.com.
Visit
the Tourney Website for Registration & Sponsor package
 June
20th, 2:00pm
St. Angela's Elementry School (13430
132A Street)
The Children’s Rights Mural Project gathers local and international
(Nicaraguan) mural painters and a team of volunteers in a collaborative
effort to convey messages of social justice. Focused on the rights
of the child this project engages participants and the general public
in a multi-faceted discussion about children’s rights and
multiculturalism. The 70ft by 9ft Child Rights Mural will be painted
on the exterior second floor wall of Edmonton’s St Angela’s
Elementary School. The design of the Mural is being created through
a collaborative process involving a team of local and international
artists (including CFCA founder Hank Zyp) and the students of St
Angela’s.
Change for Children
has a thirty-two year history of offering innovative educational
programming in Canada that is creative, participatory and inter-generational.
CFCA was founded on the principle that the way to achieve real and
sustainable change is to build bridges between communities in the
developing world and communities, schools and organizations in Canada.
Ed Carson, one
of Change for Children’s most committed supporters, taught
at St. Angela’s school for over 20 years and has been an incredible
catalyst for the involvement of hundreds of Canadians in human rights
and social justice work. For thirty years, Ed has dedicated his
life to achieving full rights for all children and has promoted
and utilized the arts as a critical tool for achieving this. Ed
has had a profound impact on many communities and many individuals
credit Ed Carson for their own commitment to changing the world.
It is his example that is the inspiration for this project.
"We know
that this mural will tell everyone who sees it – that we are
a school that supports all of the children and all of the cultures
in our community and that all children have self worth and are special.
It will serve as a source of inspiration for us to continue following
in Ed’s footsteps. Undoubtedly it will be an eternal legacy
for Ed and a constant reminder of his commitment to social justice"
- St Angela’s Staff
Your
Support and participation:
Panels
‘purchased’ for $500 each will offer tremendous support
this project. A commemorative plaque with names of all contributors
will be mounted at St Angela’s School, demonstrating our shared
commitment to the rights of all children, our acknowledgment of
the inspiration of Ed Carson’s lifetime work, and provide
a public affirmation of our continued advocacy for Children’s
rights here at home and around the world. We encourage you to consider
purchasing a mural panel in the name of your family or community
group.
Change for Children's
rich history promoting art as a tool in rights education and solidarity
has been largely facilitated by Ed Carson. Join with us in celebrating
his incredible work.
Be a
part of the mural project!
To get your community involved, consider purchasing one of the 26
panels that will be necessary to make this project a reality. Panels
are available for $500 each.
Yes,
I want to support and participate
To contribute contact Shelaine at: Shelaine@changeforchildren.org
and
Read More About How to Donate
Birthday+TrashArt=social
change
 Erin
Prout had been thinking a long time about taking action - doing
something to make a difference. She finally made the committment
and came into the CFCA office to talk about her idea of turing her
23 birthday into a fundraiser for CFCA.
With a number of creative friends and her good friend Claudia Tomczyk
on board as key production help, plans began for a party with Trash
Art Silent auction at local pub Red Star. Her goal was to raise
$500 - the result was $2000!!
"I am so
blown away at how giving people were, how easy and fun it was. It
makes me feel so good to actually have done it - to have done something
in support of something I really believe in," said Erin after
her party, "this was way better than having my grandparents
spend $300 on a steak dinner!"
Community
Fiesta Communitaria: June 6, 7pm
A Change for Children Fundraiser celebrating the commitment and
community shared between Alberta and Nicaragua
Thank you Fiesta
participants
On June 6 over 300 people attended the Fiesta to celebrate our committment
to child rights and the relationship between so many Albertans and
Nicaraguans towards achieiving rights for all children.
With the incredible
support of a lively crowd we reached our event goal of 10 'panel'
donations to support the Child Rights Mural Project - a tribute
to the work of Ed Carson and a testament to our lasting committment
towards Child Rights.
Thank you everyone
for your vibrant good energy and support!
THANK YOU!!
Key Volunteer Production Team
Nicole Smith, Ricardo Acuna, Bill Hallam, Elliot Bridgewater, Chris
Peters, Paul Pucylo, Bill Moore-Kilgannon
Event Volunteers
Laura Roberts, Greg Farrants, Aimee Lou, Jen Shore, Janina Strudwick,
Hannah Murphy, Judy Fairweather, Ashley Lynn, Sharon Strong, Daniel
Eggert, Jenny Ganie, Larissa Mich, Eugene Ulmer, Steph Afaganis,
Mara Rodriguez, Delmy Garcia, Michelle Murphy
Volunteer Talent
Host Jeff Page, Cunningham Family Band, Bill Bourne, Freddy Martinez,
Quetzala Carson, Le Fuzz, DJ Pachuco Pachanga (Nilton Romero)
Additional Planners
and Supporters
Scott Harris, Colleen Matheson, Beth Hunter, Frank Bessai
...and thank you Chateau Louis Liquor Store on Kingsway for donating
one of the bottles of Flor de Cana Nicaraguan rum
On
June 6th Change for Children presented a fundraiser celebrating
the ongoing partnerships between Albertans and Nicaraguans rooted
in commitment to Children’s Rights. For over thirty years,
CFCA members have connected with Nicaraguan communities through
work projects and educational exchanges. The effect in both countries
has been transformative, as we have learned from and supported each
other in our efforts to achieve basic rights for children.
An art auction
fundraising event where medical students, dental students, health
professionals and doctors from Edmonton’s hospitals take off
their white coats to raise money and awareness for international
health projects.
Once a year in the space of a month, a group of health workers pose
nude for 21 local talented artists. Art pieces in diverse mediums
celebrating the human body are then donated by each artist to be
auctioned off at the main event. This year there will be more than
50 pieces up for auction. Proceeds will support Change for Children's
helath project in El Salvador and IMHIS.
Visit the "Doctors and Derrieres"
page to read more...
Video
Conference for Hope, April 30
 Students
from New York City to Edmonton Alberta to Esteli Nicaragua came
together on April 30, 2008 to meet via video conference. At one
point in the day there were 5000 students participating!
Many of these schools have been fundraising to suport the construction
of a primary school in Esteli Nicaragua with Change for Children.
Schools who participated in the eight hours of programming got to
meet the school children in Esteli through video conference technology.
A big thank you to Queen Elizabeth High School in Edmonton, Alberta
for their vision, energy and partnership.
Visit the Video Conference for Hope page
to read more...
Local
Math Students raise funds for youth in Bolivia
The Math Club students of Bellerose Composite High School in St
Albert raised over $1000 during a lunch hour through their annual
"Pi-Day" event. This year's funds will support Change
for Children's Alternatives to Child Labour project in Bolivia.
Last year the event proceeds supported the Primary School Construction
project in Guatemala.
Thank you to
the students & teachers who organized and volunteered their
faces to be pied!!
4th
ANNUAL RURAL ROOTS YOUTH CONFERENCE
 Shape
your world
Rural Alberta activists
unite to 'Shape Their World!'
Over 90 Alberta
high school students travelled to Gull Lake, AB, March 14-16, 2008
to take part in the ‘Shape Your World Conference’ organized
by Rural Roots & CFCA. Students had the opportunity to hear
the inspiring stories of local activists, including Jon Jon Rivero
(NO Sweat), Ravi Jaipaul (Walk for Darfur), and Leila Darwish (The
Sierra Club).
They also participated
in hands-on workshops promoting the Millennium Development Goals.
Vancouver-based NGO ‘Check Your Head’ tackled the issue
of climate change, while a local UofA student group called ‘Earth
Vibe’ showed kids how easy it is to be ‘green.’
Many other creative activism workshops encouraged students to use
spoken word poetry, hip-hop, dance, drumming, and jewellery to take
action on social justice issues. The weekend was filled with lots
of energy, hands-on learning, and positive vibes from all who participated
in Shape Your World 2008.
"It’s
super to be able to hear people your age take action in so many
different areas, and that they’re actually making a difference"
– Yasmine Abbas, participant, age 16.
Visit the Rural Roots
Shape Your World page...
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