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Calgary Community Outreach
Program
This program, started in July 2000, provides
successful communication tools through various methods such as
non-therapeutic counseling, support services, language assistance, etc. to
aid immigrants in adapting and integrating to Canadian society because of
language, religion and cultural barriers they face.
Brown Bagging it for Calgary Street
Kids Society
In 1990 this program was developed in order to help
feed Calgary teens living on the street. Bagged lunches are prepared by
volunteers and distributed to 2 agencies that work with street kids on a
daily basis. The program helped to reduce crime and violence on the streets
of Calgary. Since January 2001, The Brown Bagging it for Calgary Street Kids
has separated from WJFB and become its own society.
Native Women's Works of
Canada
In the summer of 2000, WJFB initiated a short-term
program which featured genuine Native Handcrafts and Beadwork for sale as a
method of generating income for Native Women to lessen their independence on
social assistance.
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Handicraft Workshop for the Blind, Col. Condessa, Distrito Federal,
Mexico
A job creation project for the blind,
who have no other means of income. These people are taught to
manufacture macramé handicrafts and to sell their products. 30
Beneficiaries.
Mexico City Food Bank, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
WJFB helped to establish the first food bank in Mexico City, to
provide food to the many needy families. The program has since grown to
over 120 food banks around the country.
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Micro-Credit Project (Chuquisaca, Potosi & Oruro, Bolivia)
WJFB has established a Micro-credit program in Bolivia.
Garment Making Cera
Cera, Oropeza, Bolivia
The establishment of a sewing co-op to train unemployed women and girls
in sewing, to provide income to the family, and to discourage the
migration of youth to the cities. 50 beneficiaries.
Health and Nutrition Education for Mothers, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
A program to teach basic health education and nutrition to
geographically isolated, Quechua-speaking women. These women are also
taught leadership skills and social awareness. 2000 beneficiaries.
Dress Making Project,
Sucre, Bolivia
This project provided a very poor family of 6 (who live in one room)
with a sewing machine to make dresses and uniforms and earn for the
family. This help was made available specifically from WJFB through the
kindness of a beautiful Calgarian.
Health Care Centre, Villa Fatima and La Cuchilla, Bolivia
To establish two health care centres for two rural villages in order to
reduce the infant mortality rate and to provide maternity and basic
health care services to the area. 12,000 beneficiaries.
Poultry Rearing,
Cera Cera, Oropeza, Bolivia
The purpose of this co-op is to employ the men of the village in
a poultry rearing co-op, to reduce unemployment, and to create income as
well as to improve the local diet. 50 beneficiaries.
Santa Cruz Food
Bank, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
This food bank provides food to prisoners in local jails. The Bolivian
system is such that the state does not provide food for the prisoners,
but expects their families to provide for them. The prisoners without
families have no provision for food. As well, the wife and children of
the prisoners sometimes follow the man into jail, for lack of
accommodation and financial resources. At the moment, 200 children are
living in jail with their parents. 300 beneficiaries/ year.
Santa Rosa
Mechanic School, Santa Rosa, Bolivia
A workshop that allows youths to learn the mechanic trade on the job
while earning income through commercial jobs. 20 beneficiaries.
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Community Feeding Program for Kids, Belem, Para, Brazil
This program provides a hot meal for poor and homeless children. 150
kids fed daily.
Health and Alternative Foods Education for Mothers Belam, Para, Brazil
This project targets mothers and is part of a national plan for
development. Its purpose is to diminish infant mortality and
malnourishment and to provide health education in urban low income
areas.
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Micro-Credit Project (Puno,
Peru)
WJFB has established a Micro-credit program in Peru.
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Kanifing Food Bank,
Kanifing, Gambia
The food bank in Kanifing not only provides food supplies to families in
need, but also soap, candles, and clothing. 1176 beneficiaries/year.
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Apam Fishing Co-op,
Accra, Central, Ghana
The creation of a cooperative to provide on-the-job training for the
unemployed and unskilled in deep sea fishing. 15 beneficiaries/year.
Apam Fishing Co-op expansion, Accra, Central,
Ghana
The extension of an existing co-op by providing the needed fishing
accessories for the existing co-op and establishing a second one. 100
beneficiaries/year.
Grain
Storage Facilities, Tamale, Upper Region, Ghana
The main activity of this project is to construct and demonstrate grain
storage facilities in various northern, rural areas. These facilities
will allows farmers to store their grain for long periods of time to
sell when the price is favorable, instead of having to sell immediately
upon harvesting to middlemen who buy cheaply and sell at high prices.
800 beneficiaries.
Grain Storage Facility expansion, Tamale, Upper Region, Ghana
This is the expansion of the initial Grain Storage Facility project.
350 beneficiaries.
Preventative Health Care, Tamale, Upper Region, Ghana
The provision of primary health care and health care education for the
rural villages in one region of the country through nutrition, hygiene,
family planning, and first aid classes. The project provides resources
to rural hospitals and traveling health workers who provide these
services.76,166 beneficiaries.
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Feeding Program in Hungary
WJFB launched a short-term feeding program in Salgotarjan City for a
Teen Drop-In Centre in October 2000. Approximately 30-50 teens visit the
centre daily and, with the help of WJFB, are provided with lunches in an
area stricken by high unemployment and poverty.
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Kosovo Bread Project
In 1999 WJFB signed an agreement with the UN and a local company for
the production and delivery of bread to the returning refugees and
war-affected persons in Kosovo. WJFB provided funds while local bakeries
produced the bread. From late July until September, over 3 million
loaves of bread were produced and distributed to refugees. This project
created jobs for more than 65 bakers and their workers. 150,000
beneficiaries.
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Health Care and Skills Training Centre, Sylhet Town,
Bangladesh
This is a combination of the creation of a facility to provide health
care for expectant mothers, a delivery room, and an outdoor clinic along
with an area to provide training to young girls in sewing and
handicrafts as job skills training. Cooking and family skills will also
be taught. 1000 beneficiaries
Notre Dame Trade School Feeding Program Dacca, Bangladesh
This is a training school for poor, unskilled youth. These people are
unable to stay in school if they are not fed, as they are not earning
income. The feeding program was started to provide food so that they
boys could stay in school rather than have to work. 900
beneficiaries/year
St. Vincent's
Hospital, Dinajpur, Bangladesh
St. Vincent's is a hospital dedicated to providing medical care to the
poor of the area, at extremely low cost. They are dependent upon
charitable contributions for the bulk of the financial needs. 29,768
beneficiaries/year
Shelters for the
Homeless, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Severe flooding throughout the country created a need for temporary
shelters for those homeless. 100 beneficiaries.
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China Earthquake Disaster Relief
On May 12, 2008 a major earthquake jolted southwestern
China's Sichuan Province. Hundreds of aftershocks followed in the
same area. The quake destroyed thousands of buildings in the area.
Thousands of people died or are missing, and hundreds of thousands were
injured. It is estimated that 5 million people have been left
homeless as a result of the earthquake, the worst natural disaster to
hit China in 30 years.
CIDA / WJFB China Rural
Education Project
WJFB has been awarded
a contract with Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to
start the China Rural Education Project in February 2003. The goal of
this project is to promote and improve education standards and help
farmers improve their farming techniques to become more productive in
rural mountain areas in the Sichuan Province of China.
China Education Project
Commencing May 2001, WJFB is building a school in a mountain village
of the Jialing District, Sichuan, China, as well as provide children
whose families can't afford it with school supplies such as textbooks.
This project will provide education to 150 children in a clean and safe
school environment, and even help the economy in the poorest district of
Jialing.
China
Housing Project
In early 2001, WJFB is proposing to start a housing project in three
villages south of the City of Nanchong in the Sichuan Province of
China. New advanced housing technology will be used to build houses for
poverty stricken farming families who have little to no shelter.
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Mobile Creche,
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Since 1986 WJFB has supported this program which provides education
opportunities for slum children in Pune, India. The families in this
area do not have a stable place to live as the parents are construction
workers and must move around with their jobs. As well as providing
education to the children, Mobile Creche provides training for mothers
in health and hygiene at the construction site. 1000 beneficiaries.
Health and Literacy Education Program, Pune, Maharashtra, India
The project benefits the children of migrant workers. They are given
literacy education, hygiene, life skills, and taught the common
language. They are also given immunizations and nutritional feeding to
prevent malnutrition. 350 beneficiaries/year.
Forerunner Computer and Desktop Publishing Training School
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
WJFB initiated this training facility in 1995, and has continued to fund
this program which provides training in desktop publishing, work
processing, and accounting software for unemployed school drop outs.
Since the beginning of this program, we have provided training for over
1,500 people.
Poona Food Bank,
Poona,
Maharashtra, India
The Poona Food Bank receives surplus food from a local hotel chain to
supply hampers to needy families. The program also supplies a lunch to
150 needy school children every day. 5000 beneficiaries/year.
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Four Sanitation Projects,
Jakarta, Indonesia
WJFB built 4 sanitation facilities in the suburbs of Jakarta. These
projects have provided clean water, and reduce born diseases in the
poorer communities of Jakarta. 1550 beneficiaries.
Dress Making Cooperative, Indonesia
This program provides the opportunity for participants to create quality
clothing items and to sell these items abroad.
Sewing Skills Program, Indonesia
This program provides the opportunity for single mothers and drop-out
girls to receive skill training at a registered certified sewing school
in Jakarta so that they can improve their economic conditions.
16 beneficiaries.
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Dress Making,
Marawila, Western, Sri Lanka
A group of unemployed women in the district of Marawila have become
self-sufficient through the continuous operation of an income-generating
dress making cooperative. 8 beneficiaries.
Dress
Making expansion, Marawila, Western, Sri Lanka
The second phase of the Dress Making project involves
the expansion of the existing co-op to allow for the creation of 8 new
jobs. The project diversified into the production of school uniforms to
take advantage of a ready market. 8 beneficiaries.
Envelope Making,
Marawila, Western, Sri Lanka
The creation of a co-op to operate an envelope making business for
unemployed women. 10 beneficiaries.
Nishanti Motors Workshop, Marawila, Western, Sri Lanka
This is a mechanical workshop capable of doing all sorts of tinkering,
blacksmithing, metal working, and motor repair. Unskilled youth will be
trained while earning income on the job. 18 beneficiaries.
Rope Making,
Marawila, Western, Sri Lanka
The creation of a co-op of unemployed women to make coir rope, for which
there is a good market. 8 beneficiaries.
St. Anthony's Fishing Co-op, Talwila Coast, Puttlam,
Sri Lanka
The establishment of three fishing co-operatives in a rural area, which
will employ twelve unskilled people, and train these in deep sea
fishing. The catch will be marketed locally and the profits shared among
the workers. 12 beneficiaries.
St.
Mary's Food Bank, Marawila, Western,
Sri Lanka
St. Mary's Food Bank has been very successful in collecting surplus food
from local businesses and from the community. Their goal is not to
continue supplying the poor with food, but to help people get out of the
circumstances they are in which causes them to be unable to provide for
themselves. 2826 beneficiaries/year.
St. Theresa's Training School, Talwila, Western, Sri
Lanka
The construction of a school to train youths in marketable skills in the
trades, farming, and food processing fields. 200 beneficiaries.
Sewing Machine Repair Workshop, Katuneriya, Western, Sri Lanka
The creation of employment for poor families by establishing a
small co-op in a rural area to repair and recondition sewing machines.
6 beneficiaries/year.
Production of School Notebooks, Lunuwila, Puttlam, Sri Lanka
The expansion of a school notebook manufacturing project in the
industrial region of Lunuwila, Sri Lanka. The unskilled will be given
on-the-job training. 20 beneficiaries/year.
Technical and Vocational Training and Employment Project, Mudukatuwa,
Western, Sri Lanka
The training of school drop outs in technical and vocational skills
is made possible by providing the necessary machinery and equipment in
the areas of masonry, plumbing, and electrical wiring. The youths will
be placed in jobs or assisted in starting their own businesses after
being trained. 60 beneficiaries/year.
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