Common Threads - Crossroads International

Common Threads
Annual Report 2005/2006
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Mission: Canadian Crossroads International works to create
a more equitable and sustainable world by engaging and
strengthening individuals, organizations and communities
through mutual learning, solidarity and collective action.
Vision: One world where human rights are respected, poverty
is eliminated and the impact of HIV/AIDS is reduced.
CCI Board of Directors 2005/2006
Lambrina Nikolaou Chair, Board of Directors
Unit Director, Community Programs
St Christopher House, Toronto, Ontario
José Luis Pereira Ossio Director
Executive Director, Asociación naciónal
ecuménica de desarollo (ANED), Bolivia
Suzanne Gibson Director
Leanne French-Munn Chair,
Program Committee
Director of Enrollment Management
Nova Scotia Agricultural College
Truro, Nova Scotia
Nonhlanhla Dlamini Director
Executive Director, Swaziland Action Group
Against Abuse (SWAGAA), Swaziland
Mary Jane Amey Director
Issue Strategist and Social Planner Family
and Community Support Services Unit
City of Calgary, Alberta
Heather Neun Director
Lawyer, Vancouver, British Columbia
Meredith Low Treasurer
Director, Strategic Planning & Initiatives,
Retail Markets, CIBC, Toronto, Ontario
Betty Plewes Director
Consultant, Carp, Ontario
Karen Takacs Director
Executive Director, Canadian Crossroads
International, Toronto, Ontario
Kathleen Boies Director
Assistant Professor, John Molson
School of Business, Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec
Fiona Crean Director
Ombudsperson and Director of Human Rights,
York University, Toronto, Ontario
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Consultant, Suzanne Gibson & Associates,
Toronto, Ontario
Alain Bissonnette Director
Consultant, Montreal, Quebec
Michael O’Connor Director
Executive Director, Interagency Coalition
on AIDS and Development (ICAD)
Ottawa, Ontario
A common thread connects members of the Canadian Crossroads International (CCI)
community — a commitment to creating a more just and equitable world. Like the fibres
of a rope, individuals, organizations and communities can be pulled apart by poverty, health
crises, shifts in the global economy and social upheaval. When woven together they are
strong, able to resist the strain and to support one another in building a just world.
CCI weaves together the different perspectives, ideas and practices of our global
community — partners, Crossroaders, volunteers and donors — to combat poverty, reduce
the impact of AIDS and to promote women’s equality. These issues cannot be addressed
in isolation. Poverty fuels the AIDS pandemic and AIDS relegates millions more to live in
poverty. Without advances in women’s equality, poverty and AIDS cannot be overcome.
CCI takes a holistic approach to these issues. Our diversity enriches our collective
efforts. In One World: a Vision for the Future, CCI outlined its strategic directions for the
future. We committed to creating more opportunities for partners to work together and
to engage Canadians in this work. In the past year, partnerships between grassroots
organizations in Canada and the global South have flourished and CCI has created new
opportunities for collaboration locally, regionally and internationally. The result? Stronger,
more effective organizations and healthier communities. This year’s annual report
celebrates the myriad of ways CCI is fostering collaboration for sustainable development.
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Common Threads
Global Challenges, Local Solutions
While I was in Mali last year, women travelled from 11 villages to tell me about their work
with the Coprokazan shea butter cooperative. CCI played an instrumental role in helping to
establish and develop the cooperative.
There was such pride in their faces when the women introduced
themselves and explained their role as president, treasurer
or producer within the cooperative. Today, more than 200
women are earning more than the minimum wage. The project
has given these women greater control over their lives and
improved the standard of living for their families and villages.
This visit reaffirmed for me how critical collaboration is in
achieving development objectives.
In our strategic plan One World: a Vision for the Future,
launched last year, a key direction was to strengthen partnerships through increased collaboration. In 2005/2006, we facilitated, with our partners, the coming together of citizens within
communities to form small businesses and to educate their
peers about HIV/AIDS. We increased the number and scope
of South to South placements where partners learn about each
other’s work. We hosted regional strategy meetings and
supported partners to participate in important sectoral meetings
including the international meeting on community economic
development The Globalization of Solidarity in Senegal and the
Zero Tolerance for Gender-based Violence in Swaziland.
In Canada, CCI worked with the Make Poverty History
Campaign to advocate for Canadian leadership on fair trade,
debt cancellation and aid. Through the Global Treatment
Access Group, CCI joined with humanitarian, faith and development organizations to articulate clear steps Canada can
take to address the global AIDS pandemic and to meet G8
commitments to universal access to treatment by 2010.
Volunteers across the country organized a wide range of
activities to help bring attention to these key global issues.
As you will read, Crossroaders and CCI partners North and
South continue to make significant contributions in response
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to global poverty, the AIDS pandemic and women’s inequality.
More than 120 Crossroaders participated in placements as
diverse as supporting organic farming in St. Vincent, database
and systems development in Ghana, social research in Bolivia
and fair trade market exploration in Brandon, Manitoba. Crossroaders are helping partner organizations to increase their
capacity to fulfill their mission.
Just one year into our plan, we have focused our resources.
While we are confident that the decision to focus sectorally
and regionally — in West Africa, Southern Africa and the Andean region of South America — will deliver measurable results,
it was not an easy decision to make. This year we bid farewell
to long-time partners in Suriname, Kenya, India, St. Vincent and
Guatemala. It has been our privilege to work and learn alongside these incredible organizations.
Finally, CCI’s vision could not be realized without the
tremendous leadership, dedication and skill of the Board,
volunteers and staff and the generous financial support we
receive from our donors and funders including the Canadian
International Development Agency, Industry Canada and
the Ministère des Relations internationales du Québec. Together
we are working to create ONE WORLD where human
rights are respected, poverty is eliminated and the impact
of HIV/AIDS is reduced.
Karen Takacs
EXECUTIVE DI R ECTOR
My involvement with CCI stretches back
almost two decades. I went to Nepal as
a Crossroader in 1991 and was touched
by the generosity and spirit of the people
I met there. As many Crossroaders will
tell you, the experience fundamentally
changed my life.
Upon returning to Canada, I maintained my involvement
with CCI, training Crossroaders and participating in a number
of local and national committees. My CCI experience
shaped my future and I now dedicate my life to building
stronger communities.
When I was elected Chair of CCI’s Board of Directors four
years ago, CCI was at a crossroads of its own. With guidance
and support from our colleagues in the South, CCI embarked
on a bold plan to strengthen the capacity of our partners by
building stronger networks between Southern and Canadian
organizations committed to achieving development results. I
saw the potential in CCI’s rich history and its connections to
communities and people all over the world. I was proud to lead
the organization in this transition. I knew then, and know now,
that CCI has something unique to contribute to the world.
I am proud of what we have accomplished over the past
four years, instituting a new partnership model, implementing
a new strategic plan that focuses on HIV/AIDS, women’s
rights and poverty reduction and refining our mission, vision
and values. Today CCI plays a fundamental role in bringing
expertise and resources where they are needed most and
fostering true collaboration between organizations in Canada
and the global South.
I am constantly reminded how many lives CCI has touched
and how many Crossroaders continue to work for social justice
long after their placements overseas are completed. Increasingly,
I am meeting Crossroaders looking to renew their involvement
with CCI and I urge you to do the same.
To Crossroaders, partners, volunteers, staff, donors and my
fellow Board Members, I extend my deepest thanks. Together
we are creating a more equitable and just world.
Lambrina Nikolaou
CHAI R, B OAR D OF DI R ECTOR S
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Strengthening
Women’s Rights
If we are to achieve a broad range of development goals, from fighting AIDS to building
local economies, one common thread will link our strategies: the empowerment of women.
Yet in many countries, women are denied even their most basic rights. To strengthen women’s
equality, CCI’s partnerships support women affected by HIV/AIDS, women who have
experienced violence and rape, as well as helping impoverished women to establish incomegenerating activities to support their families. As women develop skills and confidence they
are increasingly raising their voices to demand equal rights. Through partnership exchanges
and regional gatherings CCI is also increasing connections and collaboration among women
activists and organizations regionally and internationally.
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Behki Vilane, a program coordinator at SWAGAA,
CCI partner Swaziland Action Group Against
recognized men needed to play a larger role in
Abuse (SWAGAA) has worked tirelessly to expose
ending abuse and promoting positive attitudes
the devastating impact of abuse on women and
towards women in Swazi society. During his CCI
children in Swaziland and to provide counselling
placement in Canada this year, Behki worked with
and support to those in need. To strengthen their
a number of Nova Scotian organizations that
work, CCI and the Transition House Association
target men in their programming to prevent
of Nova Scotia (THANS), a network of women’s
violence against women. His placement exposed
shelters, are working with SWAGAA to help
him to different approaches for integrating men
expand programs for women and children and
into anti-violence work. Behki is using this
to support its efforts to increase women’s rights.
experience to establish programs to counsel
The partnership has yielded results. SWAGAA has
abusers, to involve men in ending abuse of
increased its capacity for integrating men into its
women and children and to promote gender
violence-prevention programming and THANS has
equality in Swaziland.
learned innovative approaches for working with
young women. Both partners agree that, while
empower
“I was reading the intake book and I read some of these horrific situations that had
happened to very young teens or children under the age of ten, I was moved to tears –
and I work with this issue all the time, every day – and I looked up at the woman across
the desk from me and I said: ‘What do you do? How do you help these women and
children?’ And with all the seriousness in the world, she said: ‘We empower them!’”
CCI partner Pamela Harrison, Coordinator, Transition House Association of Nova Scotia (THANS) on her visit to Swaziland
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contexts may differ, they have much they can learn
from one another. From Halifax to Manzini, their
partnership will contribute to ending violence and
abuse in both hemispheres.
“We must continue working tirelessly to seek
behaviour change among those institutions
vested with the responsibility for protecting
vulnerable citizens from abuse. This includes
working with communities to reduce the
tolerance levels for gender-based violence, as
well as holding governments accountable for
their responsiveness to women’s human rights
and the protection of their dignity.”
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GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE CONFERENCE PARTICIPANT
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Zero-Tolerance This past year, CCI
worked with the Africa Canada Forum to bring
African and Canadian women’s groups together for
a meeting in Ontario to look at the issue of violence
against women globally. CCI then secured funding
WOMEN’S
WORK
to continue this work in Africa. In March, CCI
partner SWAGAA hosted the Zero Tolerance for
Gender-based Violence conference. More than
100 delegates from across Southern Africa and
CCI’s partner in Senegal, l’Association des
North America met in Manzini, Swaziland to discuss
femmes de la Medina (AFEME), is a Dakar-based
strategies for fighting gender-based violence
women’s organization that is helping local women
and empowering women. Delegates from women’s
generate income through microenterprises.
organizations, business, law and government
With the help of Crossroader Patricia Ngopya Nono,
examined the role of culture in perpetuating
AFEME has set up a workshop specializing in
violence, HIV/AIDS as cause and consequence,
batik, a process for dying fabric with vibrant,
as well as community-based responses, advocacy
colorful patterns. Through the workshop women
and law reform.
will produce garments that generate incomes
for workers and help fund AFEME’s activities
promoting women’s rights.
“What we want is to provide skills to future
violence against women and AIDS
decision-making at the community level, but also
The HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Swaziland is a staggering
40 per cent. Sixty per cent of people living with AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa are women. There
at the national level,” says Yacine Diagne, Director
is a clear link between women’s rights, women’s vulnerability to violence and HIV infection. Global
women leaders, so that women are involved in
of CCI partner AFEME. “I am working so that
guidelines for HIV prevention are often out of touch with the realities of many women. Condoms and
women emerge who are confident and dedicated
abstinence have not worked to stem the epidemic in part because women have no power to insist on
to working for all Senegalese women.”
condom use, or to refuse their partners. “The reality is that, with the high prevalence rate in our country,
when people come into our office who’ve been raped, they are not just concerned about the rape, but
also about AIDS,” says Nonhlanhla Dlamini. “And people who are HIV-positive experience different
forms of violence in the form of victimization, stigma and the like, and they also end up in our offices.
We have a sad case of a 5 year-old rape victim who was raped and infected with HIV. We need to equip
ourselves to deal with these cases.”
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A Common Front
Stopping the Spread of AIDS: HIV/AIDS is one of the greatest obstacles to development.
Forty million people are living with HIV/AIDS worldwide, 25 million in sub-Saharan Africa
alone. AIDS cuts the fabric of society, striking men and women in their productive years,
orphaning legions of children and rendering health, education and governance systems
threadbare. To address the global AIDS crisis, CCI is bringing Canadian AIDS service
organizations and Southern partners together to develop strategic approaches to help
affected communities deal with the devastating impact of AIDS, to combat stigma and to
prevent new infections.
Media By and
For the People
This year, CCI launched an innovative participatory
media project to combat discrimination and stigma
associated with AIDS. In many communities, people
Togo
living with HIV/AIDS are shunned, even by their
Acting Out in Togo To counter the
own families, leaving them at the mercy of the
rampant misconceptions about AIDS transmission
infection, unable to access treatment or to support
and treatment, Crossroader Kim Simard worked
themselves financially. The stigma associated with
with CCI Togolese partner REAILD and the
AIDS discourages people from getting tested and
residents of the village of Zooti-Golpe to produce
contributes to the spread of the pandemic as those
a series of theatre sketches about how AIDS is
who are unaware of their condition may unknow-
transmitted and how stigma affects those living
ingly spread the HIV virus. Working with partner
with the infection. By using popular theatre, the
organizations in West Africa, the project puts local
project engaged and educated members of the
residents in charge. Community members devel-
community with a minimal amount of resources.
oped key messages and produced theatre skits,
The sketches were written by residents and
radio shows and videos. Using local dialects and
performed at a community meeting, which was
media accessible to the general population, friends
followed by a discussion. Both the sketches and
and neighbours dispelled myths and provided vital
the discussion were taped and broadcast on local
facts about HIV and AIDS.
radio stations so that other communities in the
region could benefit from Zooti-Golpe’s project.
“Unfortunately, many people in rural areas don’t believe
that AIDS exists. But if you show them someone who
says: I am so and so, I have AIDS, they’re more likely
to believe it exists. This video is a way of combining
traditional storytelling with modern storytelling, which
will engage people.” CCI partner Modibo Coulibaly, Director, ARCOM
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60%
Sub-Saharan Africa has just over 10% of
the world’s population, but is home to
Mali
Talking about Stigma In Mali,
widespread unemployment has led to a rural
exodus towards the cities and neighbouring
countries, where HIV/AIDS is more prevalent.
Migrant workers are at risk of becoming infected
and bringing the illness back to their communities.
more than 60% of all people living with
HIV—25.8 million. In 2005, an estimated 3.2
million people in the region became newly
infected, while 2.4 million adults and
children died of AIDS. (source: UNAIDS)
ghana
Positive Living In Nema, a low-income neighbourhood in Accra, Ghana, talk of HIV/AIDS
CCI partner ARCOM (l’Alliance des radios
remains taboo leaving many residents at risk of infection. CCI partner, the West Africa AIDS Foundation
communautaires du Mali), a network of indepen-
(WAAF), working with Crossroader Aku Kwamie, launched an innovative peer education project. The
dent community radio stations, is working with
project trained four women and four men, half of whom are HIV-positive, as peer educators. To help
member stations to deliver timely information to
counter stereotypes about people living with AIDS, no one’s status was disclosed. The group took part
isolated rural communities about social issues,
in training sessions on AIDS, peer-to-peer education, and radio and video production. Today the peer
including HIV/AIDS. As part of the participatory
educators are the neighbourhood’s go-to experts on HIV/AIDS. The group is also producing a video
media project, Crossroader Anya Bird worked
featuring interviews with people living with HIV/AIDS that will be used to debunk myths and promote
with ARCOM to produce a short film featuring
discussion about the disease in their communities.
people living with AIDS discussing their experi-
“The method that we are using places a greater emphasis on social change, the altering of attitudes
ences called “Je suis seule” (I am alone). The film
in a whole community, instead of the behaviour of the individual,” says Kwamie. “We hope that the peer
is being screened in communities around Fana
educators will be able to go on to train other people as the project moves into new communities.”
in Mali to educate residents about AIDS and to
promote discussions about stigma.
CCI’s West African Partners Meet in Bamako An important commitment
in CCI’s strategic plan is to increase opportunities for regional and international collaboration between
partners in key sectors. This past March, CCI brought together partners from Ghana, Mali, Niger,
Senegal and Togo in Bamako, Mali, to examine the potential for collaboration and to share strategies for
addressing local development issues. A critical issue discussed was the response to HIV/AIDS. It was
a rare opportunity for CCI’s West African partners to explore the work of colleagues in neighbouring
countries. The meeting featured workshops on gender and development, public engagement, the social
economy and HIV/AIDS and set the stage for future collaboration. “Here we are investing resources to find out what is being done in Canada, in the United States or in
France, when the same things are being done in Africa, on this very continent,” says CCI partner Simplice
Dabla, Director of REAILD based in Togo. “But no one is even attempting to take a hard look at this work
which is just as rich and innovative as elsewhere.”
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Fighting Poverty
at the Grassroots
CCI is working with community organizations to reduce poverty through the
development of local, sustainable economies. This past year, Crossroaders worked with
partner organizations in Bolivia and West Africa to strengthen local economic development
initiatives including cooperatives, communal banks and microenterprises. Through these
initiatives people living in poverty earn an income and gain increased confidence and
skills to participate more fully in their communities.
“I didn’t think I was a global citizen
before, I am now. I’m listening
more and I’m continuing to think
about how I can still have an impact”
Carol Stroud, Crossroader (Bolivia 2006)
new markets
With support from CCI, a Malian cooperative has taken a product used
for centuries by women and turned it into an engine for local economic
development. Shea butter, derived from the shea nut, is in demand
worldwide for cosmetics, skin care products as well as sweets and cooking
oil. With the help of CCI, the Coopérative de productrices de karité de
Zantiébougou (Coprokazan) has gradually increased its output, become a
full-fledged cooperative, professionalized its accounting and reporting, and
expanded its network of contacts. It is now producing high-quality shea butter
distributed in stores across Mali, and is generating an income for more than
200 women in 11 villages. You can even find Coprokazan’s shea butter at the
Dix Milles Villages boutique in Montreal. The income generated by this project
has increased the standard of living of this rural community and has given the
women of Zantiébougou new opportunities, skills and hope for the future.
“I was doing research with rural women working with Foncresol
in Potosi, which is the poorest region in Bolivia. Potosi is one
of the most successful examples of communal banks in Bolivia.
The women were really afraid at first. They take turns being
president or treasurer and they gained confidence as a result
of the program. There is a lot of illiteracy, especially for women,
but all of the women are sending all their kids to school, not
just the boys. They do a lot of gender training at FONCRESOL, so
that was an interesting finding. Definitely [the community] is more
economically stable.” Christina Bielek, Crossroader (Bolivia 2006)
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“We are focusing on developing training programs. We have 42 agencies in
very rural communities across the country. It is very difficult to train staff
because they are so remote. For many years our people have come as ToCanada Crossroaders. This exposure to other cultures and other ways of
work has been very beneficial. ANED is stronger because we have stronger
Bolivia
Communal Banks,
people working for us.”
CCI partner José Luis Perreira Ossio, Executive Director, Asociación
naciónal ecuménica de desarollo (ANED)
managed and administered by local residents, are being established
throughout Bolivia. Banks are governed by local residents who rotate their positions within the bank,
allowing all to gain new skills. Portions of the profits are reinvested in projects that benefit the
community as a whole.
Canadian Crossroaders are assisting CCI’s Bolivian partners in producing training materials for loan
officers who support communal banks across the country. Bolivian To-Canada Crossroaders are working
with Canadian community economic development organizations such as the Centre for Community
Enterprise (CCE) in Port Alberni, B.C., to acquire specialized financial training to further the development
of banks in some of Bolivia’s most vulnerable communities.
Microcredit and communal banks provide a lifeline. This is especially true in the rural communities that
dot the Andean Plateau. Loan officers travel hundreds of kilometers over treacherous terrain to reach
isolated farms and villages. Few can return to the capital La Paz to take part in the specialized financial
training they need to provide effective services. To assist these loan officers, Crossroader Carol Stroud helped
introduce long-distance training. Carol is a distance-education specialist and an expert
in bringing curricula to isolated areas, having worked in the vast expanses of Canada’s north. With technical
assistance from Crossroader Dan Lebofsky, Carol worked closely with CCI partner ANED to develop a
series of Web-based and CD-ROM training modules that officers can access from any part of the country.
women
Key to Economic Development
When microcredit contracts are made available, local women arrive by the hundreds
to line up outside the ANED offices. Small loans, or microcredit, offered by ANED
are generally worth between US$15 and US$300. The loans are used to buy and
resell goods, invest in a small business or to buy agricultural materials to generate
incomes for families.
Women play a crucial role in keeping families and communities together.
Increasingly they are also primary drivers in building sustainable local economies.
CCI is working with our Bolivian partners microfinance organizations ANED and
PEAP-FONCRESOL, to increase the role of women in the economy and the community.
Using microfinance tools, such as communal banks, they are targeting women to
ensure they receive the training and opportunities to help them establish incomegenerating businesses. It is hoped that as women take on greater leadership in the
economy, they will also take on increased leadership in local governance.
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Working Towards One World
CCI in Canada
CCI’s work is not limited to its partnership projects overseas. Crossroaders, CCI
partners, volunteers, staff and supporters have raised awareness of the global impact
of women’s inequality, HIV/AIDS and poverty with the Canadian public, as well as
with decision-makers in government. Across the country, CCI is building a network
of global citizens working for change.
FairTrade
Make Trade Fair for Mali’s Cotton Farmer CCI mounted a campaign in Quebec
designed to educate the public about the plight of Mali’s cotton farmers. Unable to compete with the heavily
subsidized American and European cotton growers, Mali’s cotton sector faces a crisis that affects the
livelihood of thousands of Malians who depend on cotton for their living. To make matters worse, the World
Bank is pressuring Mali to dismantle the one institution providing a buffer to cotton farmers, the Compagnie
malienne de développement textile, which offers price guarantees to protect farmers from the fluctuations of
the international market. Crossroaders, volunteers and staff did interviews with newspapers and on radio,
organized a letter-writing campaign and put on live theatre performances in public spaces to raise awareness
and pressure the Canadian government into using its influence within multilateral organizations to ensure that
policies that protect small-scale growers are put in place.
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A Global Call
The Canadian Make Poverty History Campaign unites individuals, organizations and communities
from coast to coast in urging our government to take action to: cancel the debt of the world’s
poorest countries, commit to reaching the foreign aid goal of 0.7% of gross national income (GNI),
make trade policies fair for developing countries and end child poverty in Canada. The Campaign is
part of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, the umbrella group for campaigns in more than 80
countries, uniting more than 36 million people worldwide in demanding world leaders make poverty
eradication a global priority. Almost a quarter of a million Canadians have signed on to the Campaign
to date. CCI is an active member of the Campaign, serving on the steering committee and organizing
events across the country. Last year, CCI volunteers were involved in every aspect of the Campaign
drawing thousands of people to participate in activities such as the Live 8 concert in Barrie, Ontario,
the election debate at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and awareness raising events such as
the wrapping of public buildings with white bands in communities across the country.
The Remarkable Maria The experience of working with AIDS service organizations in
Suriname, and seeing the effects of AIDS on children, was a turning point in the life of Crossroader Patti
McIntosh. Upon returning to Canada, she decided to draw attention to the needs of children living with
AIDS by writing a children’s book, describing the life of a little girl living with AIDS in Suriname, The
Remarkable Maria. Illustrations for the book were produced by Tara Langlois, with contributions from
Surinamese school children. CCI organized a book tour for Patti in communities throughout Western
Canada to raise awareness of the impact of AIDS on children. Maria was selected as “Best of the Best” for
2005 by Edmonton Public School Board and has been approved by Edmonton Catholic Schools to be
used as a resource to the Grade 6 health curriculum. The Remarkable Maria also won Children’s Book
of the Year for 2005 at the Alberta Book Awards. Visit http://www.remarkable-maria.com.
action
Raising Funds
for Women’s Equality
Canadian women came out to support their sisters
in Swaziland at the Incredible Women Doing
Wonderful Things for the World fundraiser
taking action Against
Poverty CCI launched Global Citizens
organized by CCI Board member Suzanne
Gibson this past March in Toronto. The nearly
for Action Against Poverty, in partnership with
seventy women who attended the event were
nine other volunteer cooperation agencies,
inspired by keynote speaker and CCI partner
to mobilize former overseas volunteers to
Nonhlanhla Dlamini, Director of the Swaziland
take local action in their communities on
Action Group Against Abuse, who described
global issues. Returned volunteers reached
her experience fighting gender-based violence
in Swaziland. The event raised $10,000
HIV without Borders Canadian
for CCI’s work on women’s equality.
AIDS service organizations and community
organizations are eager to work with their
counterparts in the South to help fight AIDS, but
may be unprepared to meet the challenges of
working in an international partnership. To explore
best practices, CCI hosted HIV Without Borders:
Collaborating Globally Against the Pandemic this
past December in Toronto. The conference, which
attracted 57 organizations from 13 countries,
featured presentations and workshops which
Canadians from Kelowna to Saint John’s,
hosting public events to draw attention to
global trade, debt and aid. This past year,
these dedicated volunteers produced
television public service announcements,
organized rallies and set up meetings with
their Members of Parliament, educating their
communities about the issues affecting
the South and challenging their elected
representatives and all Canadians to commit
to international solidarity and justice.
explored the unique challenges of international
collaboration on HIV and AIDS.
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Making a difference
Crossroaders 2005/2006
Crossroaders work shoulder to shoulder with CCI’s partners, building on each
other’s work to help partner organizations grow and thrive. By sharing their expertise
and experience, Crossroaders are bringing Southern approaches to Canada, Northern
approaches to the South, and creating links between Southern organizations. By investing
themselves in communities overseas, Crossroaders become part of an international
network of global citizens working for a common cause. United by a commitment to social
justice and to the right of all the world’s people to live in dignity, Crossroaders are part
of a global community working towards one world where human rights are respected,
poverty is eradicated and the impact of HIV/AIDS is reduced. In 2005/2006, CCI
sent 79 Canadian Crossroaders overseas, brought 15 Southern Crossroaders to Canada,
facilitated 27 exchanges between Southern organizations and 19 partnership visits.
We are grateful for their individual efforts, their dedication and continued support.
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Alana Mascoll
North-South
Kim Simard
Anya Bird
Mark Simmons
Marjolaine Blouin
Crossroaders
Mackenzie Kinmond
Nicole Maxwell
Jennie Phillips
Reg Phalen
Andrea Puszkar
René-Pierre Tchio
South-North
Crossroaders
Shaibu Chitsiku
Bhekinkosi Paris Vilane
South-South
Crossroaders
Thulani Mayisela
Lindiwe Mkhatshwa
South-South
Gerry Hutchison
Crossroaders
Mary Jordan
François-René Lord
Ntji Camara
Daniel Lebofsky
Véronique Martel
Lassina Coulibaly
Erica Loughlin
Sandra Ménard
Modibo Coulibaly
Andrea Malo
Patrick Bonin
Élisabeth Naud
Oumar Coulibaly
Jessica Mende
Crossroaders
Katy Boucher
Patricia Ngopya Nono
Oumou Coulibaly
Brenda Moore
Mary Njeri Kahora
Christine Boutin
Violaine Pelletier-Madsen
Ndeye Yacine Diagne
Matthew Rix
Charles Oduor Ogada
Jean-François Boyd
Frédéric Poirier
Jonathan Doumbia
Carol Stroud
Frédéric Champagne
Marie-France Quimper
Berthé Gaoussou
Sherilyn Sutton
Vincent Charbonneau
Lana Diane Rabinovitch
Boureïma Garba
Doris Tang
Christelle Couturier
Cynthia Rioux
Pascal Komoué
Emilie Dussault-Fortier
Marie- Eve Rouleau
Mah Koné
Martin Fallon
Priscilla Simard
Cissé Mamadou
Karine Frappier
Espérance Siwe Siwe
Yalcouyé Oulématou
Brigitte Geoffroy
Jean-Philippe Soubeiga
Mariam Outtara
Julian Van MosselForrester
South-North
South-South
Crossroaders
Fogan Kpotogbe
Simplice Yao Dabla
Kakra Ankobiah
Olivier Atandi Milévo
CCI Quebec
North-South
CCI Ontario
Crossroaders
North-South
Mélanie Archambault
Crossroaders
Christian Baillargeon
Sarah Anderson
Anne-Marie
Sarah Cardey
Richard Clarke
Beauchamp
Marie-Anyse Bédard
Meaghan Duthie
Hamza Beghdadi
Aku Kwamie
Anne-Marie Bégin
Lijeanne Lee
Julie Berson
Marlène Bilombo
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Bassehela
Marie-Hélène
Bois-Brochu
Ariane Giguère
Jean-Thomas
Léveillé-Trudel
South-North
Amy Sacko
Amadou Sidikou
Jean-Luc Guimond
Crossroaders
Lisandre Jardon
Oumou Coulibaly
Ariane Lajoie
Youssouf Doumbia
Meggie-Karolane
Ali Kouadio
CCI West
Badio Moussa
North-South
Laplante
Marie-Pier Latraverse
Mamatou Samaké
Jacinthe Leblanc
Oulematou Yalcouye
Lamine Togola
Ramatou Traoré
Crossroaders
Christina Bielek
Marie-Andrée Leblanc
Alaya Boisvert
Marie-Claude Leduc
Danny Chow
Suzie Lepage
Amie Gosselin
Steven Gosselin
South-North
Crossroaders
Loida Bixcul Mendez
Johannes Commowe
Tojo
Samantha Gadjradj
Melvi Geovana
Padilla Sanchez
Antonio Silvestre Esquivel
South-South
Crossroaders
Denny Rose
CCI Partners
2005/2006
Why do I support CCI? CCI connects Canadians to the world,
immerses them in it, enables them
to grasp what it means to be
citizens of the world. Through
CCI, Canadians are transformed
and in turn, they are empowered
to transform the world.
Michael Cooke, Vice President,
Academic Excellence and Innovations George Brown College
Canada
Bolivia
Association villageoise Danaya
Centre for Community Enterprise
Programa de Estudios y Apoyo
Association Kelenya
AIDS Committee of London (ACOL)
Association des groupes d’intervention en défense
de droits en santé mentale du Québec
a la Producción (PEAP-FONCRESOL)
Asociación Naciónal Ecuménica
de Desarrollo (ANED)
Land O’Lakes Communication Network (LOLCN)
The Working Centre
Comité St-Félix Cœurs solidaires
Comité Unis-vert des liens durables (Sept-Îles)
Ghana
Senegal
Guatemala
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Femmes en mouvement (FEM)
Human Uplift Trust (HUT)
Côte d’Ivoire
HIV Edmonton
Association St-Camille de Lellis
SIDA/AIDS Moncton
Réseau Environnement et Développement durable
(THANS)
Conseil économique et social d’Ottawa-Carleton
(CESOC)
MacMorran Community Centre
St. Vincent Banana Growers’ Association (SVBGA)
Suriname
The South West Shore Development Authority
Transition House Association of Nova Scotia
Association des femmes de la Médina (AFEME)
Centro Pluricultural para la Democracia (CPD)
India
AIDS Saint John
à la base (ONPHDB)
West Africa AIDS Foundation (WAAF)
Coopérative de solidarité Rocher-Percé
(SWSDA)
Organisation nigérienne pour la promotion
de l’hydraulique et du développement
(AGIDD-SMQ)
Transport 2000 Québec
Niger
en Afrique (REDDA)
Stichting Mamio Namen Project (SMNP)
Swaziland
The AIDS Information and Support Centre (TASC)
Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse (SWAGAA)
Kenya
Computers for Schools Kenya (CFSK)
Ugunja Community Resource Centre (UCRC)
Togo
Recherche, Échanges, et Appui aux Initiatives
Locales de Développement (REAILD)
Mali
Alliance des radios communautaires
du Mali (ARCOM)
Zimbabwe
Simukai Street Youth Programme
Association malienne pour la
promotion des jeunes (AMPJ)
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Our Donors
CCI would like to thank the individuals, businesses,
foundations, faith groups and funders who have supported
CCI over the past year. Your generosity is helping to create
one world where human rights are respected, poverty is
eliminated and the impact of HIV/AIDS is reduced.
the people and organizations listed made gifts to cci between April 1st, 2005 and March 31st, 2006.
James Robinson
Lynn Calder
Janice Hamilton
Wayne McGill
Gord Rodgers
Society (JRS) Donors
Christine Campbell
John Hart
Megan McIlroy
David Roe
CCI is pleased to honour the
Marlene Celinski
Kenneth Hoffman
Donald McMaster
Mark Rogers
following individuals who
Helen Collopy
Lee Holland
Veronica McNeil
Michael Rudiak
as members of the James
Mary Louise Conlin
Keith Irving
Catherine Meyerhoff
Paul Saunders
Robinson Society (JRS) have
Michael Cooke
Allan Johnson
Rev. Catherine Miller
Charles Seiden
made a sustained commit-
Anne Creighton
Elizabeth Johnson
Catherine Mitchell
Laura Sie
ment to our work. This CCI
Derrick Deans
Isabelle Johnson
Laurier Mongrain
Rosa Skiby
monthly giving program
Paul Delaney
Warren Johnston
Laura Moore
Dr. James Skidmore
honours our visionary founder
Doug Dodd
Ben Kaak & Sandra Huehn
Rev. Monica Lynn Moore
Pamela Skinner
and all those who share
James Donovan
Basil Kingstone
Pierre Morasse
Nancy Smith
his commitment to justice,
Linda Drake
Jayne Kozovski
Alex Morosovskiy
Hélène Soumis
equality and opportunity for all.
Michel Dupré
Helmut Kuhn
Jane Mulkewich
Kevin St. Michael
Susan Edwards
Richard Laberge
Shannon Nelson
Rosella Stoesz
Mohammed Abdulkadir
Dr. Ernest Epp
D.A. Landry
Barbara Neuwelt
Kathy Stuart
Belinda Abraham
Denis Fafard
James Lane
Emilie Newell
Janet Sutherland
Maya Ahmad
Joan Fair
Richard Lane
Nicole Newell
Roderick Syme
Kathy Allan
Shannon Fleming
Mark Leger
Lambrina Nikolaou
Karen Takacs
Martha Anslow
Mary Jane Fox
Megan Leslie
Kelly O’Brien
Diane Trahan
Josephine Asmah
Christopher Francis
Ursula Lipski
M.J. O’Keefe
Ghislaine Tremblay
Janet Lockington
Linda Osbourne
Linda Turner
Carol van der Veer
Patricia Aubé
& Janis Elliot
Norine Baron
Leanne French-Munn
Daphne Loukidelis
Simon Page
Walter Barss
Anne Gardner
Meredith Low
Simmah Petersen
Virginia Van Vliet
Julia Beddoe
Charles Gardner
Carol Lowes
Shino Philips
Agnès van’t Bosch
Pearl Benyk
Mary Gauld &
Dr. Joyce Lundberg
Solange Plamondon
Dianne Vandervlist
Bonnie MacDonald
Ian Potts
Harry Vedelago
Natacha Bernier
Robert Stevens
Irene Bleton
Constance Gerwing
Danae Mack
Harry Qualman
Leslie Wakelyn
Dr. Kathleen Boies
Suzanne Gibson
Rénald Mailhot
Vera Radyo
William Wallace
Alphé Boudreau
Françoise Goutier
Peggy Mann
Munju Ravindra
Mary-Jane Walsh
Lisa Boyle
Michael Gray
Anne Marceau
Andrew Reynolds
Wade Watson
Barbara Brockmann
George Greig
Dorothy McCabe
Janet Riehm
Andrew & Nora Whyte
Aukje Byker
Audrey Greves
Jean McEwan
Dr. Marjorie Robb-Aquino
Mindy Willett
Linda Calder
Jean-Marc Hachey
Fabian McGaugh
Dr. Michael Rochester
Dr. Ruth Wilson
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Claire Winterton
Hamza Beghdadi
Claire Brodeur
Kam Chow
Jacinthe Dorais
Sean Wolfe
Mikael Bélanger
Maureen Bronkhorst
Fern Clarke
Jean-Pierre Dorais
John Wonfor
Norah Benoit
Carolyn Brooks
Frank Clarke
Louise Dorais
Lana Wright
Pearl Benyk
Andrée Brossard
John Cleave
Marguerite Doucet
Russell Wyatt
Olga Berenchtein
Annabelle Brossard
Emilienne Cloutier
Odette Doumbe
Judy Zachariassen
Nora Berkhout
Douglas Brown
Richard & Ruth Clynick
Linda Drake
Margaret Zurbrigg
Dr. Lorne Berman
Elizabeth Brown
Christine Colevray
Wayne & Iris Dresser
Natacha Bernier
Michael Brownell
Helen Collopy
Odis & Maria Drossos
Individual Donors
Normand Bernier
Leslie Brudne
Mary Louise Conlin
Norbert Dubé
Mohammed Abdulkadir
Richard Berriault
Donald & Kathleen
Joy Connelly
Jason Dueck
Belinda Abraham
Florian Bibeau
Sandra Abraham
Janice Bicknell
Diane Adams
Ken Adcoe
Maya Ahmad
Omo Akintan
Kathy Allan
Michael Cooke
Therese Dufresne
Bonnie Brunne
Anna-Marie Cooney
Martine Dumais
Christina Bielek
Charles Bryant
Linda Corbett
Alain Dumas
Dr. Stephen Bird
Norm Buchanan
Camilla Cornell
Michel Dupré
Sally Budd
Benoit Coté
Daniel Dupuis
Anh Bui
Jacques Côté
Hélène Dupuis
Dr. Aileen Burford-Mason
Lyne Côté
Pierre Duquette
& Jill Quinlan Bird
Philip Birdgenaw
& Lori Deegan
Brundage
Brian & Linda Allen
Sandy Birnie
Lise Buissières
Rita Côté
Caroline Dussault
Mary Jane Amey
Dr. Paul Bishop
Odette Bussières
Stéphane Côté
Jacques Dussault
Arif Amlani
Madeleine Bisson
David Butts
Christelle Couturier
Kathy Eades
Louis Ammann
Joan Bittroff
Aukje Byker
Audrie Cox
Spencer Early
Pam Amulaku
Jill Black
Jason Byrne
Douglas Cox
Judith Edgar
Bill Anderson
Marie-Hélène Blais
Rev. James Cairney
Alan Crawford
Francis Edmilao
Jahna Anderson
Pierre Blais
Linda Calder
Charlene Crawford
Susan Edwards
Karen Anderson
Serge Blais
Lynn Calder
Anne Creighton
Rod & Maggie Egger
Mary-Kate Anderson
Irene Bleton
Christine Campbell
Ginger Cross
Emma Ehrhardt
Lisa Andres
Josée Blouin
Hugh Campbell
Kelly Culver
Tarek El-Kaissi
Martha Anslow
Marjolaine Blouin
Lili Campbell
William Cusano
Eric Elkin
Maurice April
Sonja Body
Emma Canham
Pierre Cyr
Susan Caroline Emblem
Mélanie Archambault
Christine Boersma
Darquise Cantin
Marysia Czarski
Lila Engberg
Pat Arey
Shelley Boettger
Patrick Capper
Yolanda D’Intino
Gloria Engel
Ashley Armstrong
Dr. Kathleen Boies
Christopher &
Andrée Dagenais
Ernest Epp
David Armstrong
Alaya Boisvert
Anne Marie Dagenais
Art Erasmus
Jay Armstrong
Claude Boisvert
Marjorie Cardey
Jean-Paul Dagenais
Dr. David Evans
Dan Artola
Michel Boivert
Christine Cardinal
Marc Dagenais
Joyce Evans
Gordon Ashfield
Deborah Bonser
Micheline Carpentier
Nöel Dallaire
Denis Fafard
Ann Ashton
Johanne Bouchard
Virginia Carr
Thérèse Dallaire
Joan Fair
Josephine Asmah
Mélodie Bouchard
Cindy Carter
Dr. Craig Daniels
Maureen Fair &
Susan Asunmaa
Nathalie Bouchard
Renée Cator
Jacob Dare
Kathryn Atherton
Catherine Boucher
Carlo Cattelan &
Éric Daudelin
Judith Fairbairn
Christopher Atwood
Katy Boucher
James David
Dionne Falconer
Denise Aube
Alphé Boudreau
Caroline Cécyre
Dorothy Davidson
Johanne Fallon
Jacqueline Aube
Pierre Bourque
Marlene Celinski
Maria Davis
Alan Farquhar
Patricia Aubé
Daniel Bourry
Sylvain Chagnon
Keren Dawkins Brown
Ruth Farquhar
Linda Auriat
Christine Boutin
Frédéric Champagne
Christian De Serres
Doris Fast
Kathryn Babcock
Claudette Boutin
Serge Champagne
Derrick Deans
Harvey Faucher
Nathalie Babin-Gagnon
Jean-Pierre Boutin
Suzanne Champagne
Paul Delaney
Leslie Felker
Arthur E. Barbeau
Leigh Bowie
Corinne Chan
Peter Delaney
K. Ferguson
Lucille Barcelo
Lisa Boyle
Kendall Chan
John Denham
Laurent Ferreira
Alan Barnes
Pamela Boyle
Tien Chang
Katerine Denoncourt
Norine Baron
Colleen Bradley
Dr. Andrea Chapman
Isabelle Desaulniers
Ruth Fetterly
Dr. Walter Barss
Marie Braedley
Marie-Hélène Désaulniers
Margaret Fischer
Don Basham
Mary Anne Brager
Dr. David Chapman
Carl Descoteaux
Sherri Flegel
Rick & Cathy Bauer
Isabelle Brennan
Isabelle Charland
Sharon Dice
Shannon Fleming
Michel Beaudoin
Alex Brett
Gloria Cheng
G. DiFrancesco
Glen Ford
Christelle Beaulieu
Rosemarie Briggs
H. & K. Childs
Doug Dodd
Ellen Forrester
Michel Beaulieu
Léon Brillon
Jean Choiniere
Alice Doi
Peter Foster
Yvan Beaupré
Sylvain Brisson
Elizabeth Chong
James L Donald
Jean-François Fournier
Marie-Anyse Bédard
Barbara Brockmann
Sylvie Choquette
Etta Donnelly
Thérèse Fournier
Julia Beddoe
Bernard Brodeur
Danny Chow
James Donovan
Diane Fournier Dorais
Theresa Cardey
Sabina Kuepper
& Kevin Washbrook
Wendy Shaw
& Leslie Silver
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Roselyne Fournier Pagé
Michael Gray
Margaret Hutchison
Bernard Lachance
Kexing Liu
Joan Fox
Gary Greenman
Rev. Vern Hutson
Carla Ladd
Susan Liver
Mary Jane Fox
George Greig
Ilene Hyman
Ariane Lajoie
Tracy Lloyde
Christopher Francis
Audrey Greves
Maureen Irish
Maurice Lajoie
Janet Lockington
Doretta Groenendyk
Julie Irving
Sylvia Lajoie
Michael Loebach &
Jacques Fregeau
Catherine Groh
Keith Irving
Dr. André Lalonde
Barbara Frei
Glen Gryzko
Lorna Ivadel Van Mossel
Georgette Lalonde
Donna Lougheed
Mike Freiter
Robert Guay
Carol Jackson
Harry Lambert
Colin Loughlin
Leanne French-Munn
John Gubany
Nicolas Jadot
Wilma Lambert
Erica Loughlin
Sandra Friedman
Micheline Guernon
Anne Janvier
Claude Lamothe
Ruth Loughlin
Ramona Fudge
Cécile Guimond
Benoit Janvier
Maxime Lamothe
Daphne Loukidelis
Janet Gadeski
Johanne Guimond
Bernadette Janvier
Michèle Lamquin-Éthier
Alan Lounds
Bérangère Gagné
Louisette Guimond
Robyn Janyk
Yvette Lamy
Meredith Low
Milaine Gagné
Madeleine Guimond
Dave Jenkinson
D.A. Landry
Carol Lowes
Janine Gagnier
Maggie Guzzi
Allan Johnson
Dr. Alan and Corinne Lane
Daniel Lu
Alain Gagnon
Chris Gyan
Brian Johnson
James Lane
Jia Lu
Claude Gagnon
Jean-Marc Hachey
Elizabeth Johnson
Richard Lane
Lori Lucier
Pierre C. Gagnon
Diana Hague
Isabelle Johnson
Sylvain Laplante
Raj Lukhai
Réal Gagnon
Serge Hamel
Warren Johnston
Richard Lapointe
Dr. Joyce Lundberg
René Gagnon
Janice Hamilton
Merla Johnstone
Jean-François Larin
Yvon Lussier
Valérie Gagnon
John Hamilton
Sommer Johnstone
Pierre Larocque
Cheryl Lyall
Mark Gallas
Michelle Hammond
Laura Jones
Éric Latour
Matthew & Janet Lynall
Lucienne Garant Beaudry
C.W. & Jody
Nada Jorna
Theresa Lau
Sister Elizabeth Lynch
Elisabeth Jud
André Lauzon
Joanna Macaulay
Ben Kaak &
Guy Lavallée
Allan MacCallum
Lise Laverdière
Beverley Macdonald
& Janis Elliot
Fabiana Garcia
Hampton-Davies
Patricia Howe Loebach
Julia Garcia
Mary-Ann Hansen
Petrona Garcia
Elizabeth Harris
Anne Gardner
John Hart
Winnifred Kalagian
Emily Law
Bonnie MacDonald
Dr. Charles Gardner
Steven Hartley
Betsy Kappel
Louis Lawson
John MacFarlane
Francine Gaudet
Allison Harvey
Jessie Kaye
Jacqueline Lebel
Valerie Mackay-Greer
Mary Gauld & Mr. Robert
Lise Harvey
Taaja Kayler
Marie-Andrée Leblanc
Katherine Macklem
Bob Hawkesworth
Mary Ann Kehoe
Daniel Lebofsky
James MacLaren
Louise Gauthier
Anne & Dr. Ian Hay
Sheila Kelly-Blackmore
Pierre Ledoux
Tom Maclean
Simone B. Gauthier
Edward & Catrin Hayes
Dianne Kerr
Alison LeDuc
Norman MacMillan
Francine Gendron
Scott Hayman
Michael Kerr
Annie Leduc
Rev. Sandy MacPherson
Richard Gendron
Penelope Heaslip
Murray Kerr
Suzanne Leduc
André Mageau
Constance Gerwing
Anne Hewitt
Verna Killam
Lijeanne Lee
Susan Mah
Richard Getzkow
Hazel Hewitt
Carol King
Tony Lee
Rénald Mailhot
Louis Giard
Eilis Hiebert
Frank Kingston
Elsie Lefèbvre
Brian & Patricia
Evelyn Gibson
Anne-Louise Hill
Basil Kingstone
Françoise Légaré
Dr. Ronald E. Gibson
Debbie Hill-Corrigan
Stuart Kinmond
Marie-Joelle Légaré
Kirsten Makinson
Suzanne Gibson
Kristin Hillenbrand
Peter Kirby
Denise Legasse
Mary Malainey
Ariane Giguère
Robbie Hinds
Darren M. Kirk
Diane Legault
Andrea Malo
Yves Giguère
Justin Ho
Harold & Marion Kirk
Mark Leger
Ann Malo
Anne Gillespie
Kenneth Hoffman
Carroll Klein
Claudia Legg
Anne Malo
Lance Gimbel
Lee Holland
Christopher Knapper
Ron Lehman
Leah Malo
James Girvin
Joan Hollett
Jack Knechtel
Robert & Katherine Leigh
Kiran Manhas
Kathryn Glazier
Ron Holmes
Robert & Hilda Knighton
Joan Leitch
Lolita Manj
Charles Glushka
Marcus Holtzendorff
Petra Konadu
Fernando Leon
Cathy Mann
Maria Fernanda
Neil Homer
Jayne Kozovski
Céline Léonard
Peggy Mann
Archie Horn
Joy Kramer
Christine Leonard-Cripps
Vivianne Mansour
France Gosselin
Murray Horner &
Anthony Kretz
Suzie Lepage
Lawrence Mante
Wayne Gosselin
Christina Borsu
Deborah Kretz
Ian Leslie
Anna Maria Marcario
Stevens
Gonzalez Magana
Sandra Huehn
Mainwaring
Dominique Goulet
Alexandra Horsky
Sheila Kretz-Greco
Megan Leslie
Anne Marceau
Louis Gousineau
Fatma Houda Pépin
Helmut Kuhn
Jean-Thomas
Valerie March Bennett
Françoise Goutier
Martine Houle
Rosario Kuhrt
Michael Graham &
John Howard
Aku Kwamie
Meredith Levine
Line Marcotte
Dr. Craig Hubbard
Pierrette Labbé
Barbara Lewis
Hélène Marcotte Roberts
Lynn Gran
Laine Hughes
Raymond Laberge
Christine Li
David Marcus Schmid
David & Barbara Gray
Bryan Hussey
Richard Laberge
Margaret Li
Christopher Marilley
Kristyn Gray
Gerry Hutchison
Georgette Lacaille
Ursula Lipski
Hulene Montgomery
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Léveillé-Trudel
Nilde Marcolini
& Desirée McGraw
Larry Markwell
Rev. Catherine Miller
Laura K. Oda
Nadine Proulx
Pierre Marot
Doreen Miller
Susanne Odegaard
Rock Proulx
Beverly Marsh
Margaret Miller
Catherine Ogle
Aude Proulx-Bouchard
Francis Scardera
Germain Martel
Margaret Millius
Matthew Oleynik
Joan Prout
Rosemarie Schade
Mario Martel
Stephanie Millius
Senator Donald Oliver
Evelyn Puszkar
Cindy Schindel
Véronique Martel
Catherine Mitchell
Anne Orfald
Mary Puszkar
Stephan Schneider
Betsy Martin
Jeanne Moffatt
Camille Orridge
Harry Qualman
Herta Schymizek
Pierre Martin
Laurier Mongrain
Patricia Orsoni &
Kathleen Quinn
Janice Scott
Alana Mascoll
Marie Montiel
Sheila Quinn
David Scrymgeour
Nathalie Massicotte
Laura Moore
Linda Osbourne
Vera Radyo
Rosalyn Seeton
Bob Masterson
Rev. Monica Lynn Moore
Jeanne Ostiguy
Luna Ramkhalawansingh
Charles Seiden
Sophie Mathers
Florent Morasse
Louise Owen
Dr. Indra Rastogi
Catherine Senecal
Trevor Owen
Dr. Terri Rau
Émilie Senécal
William Matheson
& Chantal Ouellet
Frank Wiemer
Edith Savard &
Jean-Yves Nantel
Dania Matiation
Pierre Morasse
Valerie Owen
Munju Ravindra
Trina Senechal
Céline Matteau
Therese Morden
Anita Pachulski
Margo Ray
Marie-Helene Seveno
Karen Matthews
Pierrre Moreau
Anne Geneviève Page
Bruno Raymond
Caroline Sevigny
Mary Maxwell
Rona Moreau
Leslie Page
Louise Raymond
Susan Seymour
Nicole Maxwell
Myrna Morgan
Simon Page
Patrick Raymond
Marsha Sfeir
Fauzia Mazhar
Ghislaine Morin
Sue Pagniello
Almerinda Rebelo
Carol Shank
Lois Mcalary
Michel Morin
Louise Panneton
Phyllis Reddick
Allen P.J. Shaw
Sandy McBride
Odette Morin
Annie Paquin
Sheane Reid
Ian Shearer
Dorothy McCabe
Carmen Morissette Boulay
Marie-Eve Paquin
Denis Renaud
Christopher &
Shawn McCully
Michel Morneau
Reynald Paquin
Andrew Reynolds
Dr. William H. McCutcheon
Alex Morosovskiy
Dr. Craig L. J. Parfett
Mary Rheulicke
Laura Sie
Scott McDowell
David Morrison
Jen Parry
Tara Rhodes
Brian Silver
Jean McEwan
Murray Morrison
Jane Parsons
Denise Richard
Kim Simard
Sheila McFarland
Diane Morrow
Juliette Pedneault
Shirley Richard
Mathieu Simard
Fabian McGaugh
Catherine Mountain
Marcel Pellerin
Jo Richardson
Priscilla Simard
Wayne McGill
Patricia Mowers
Violaine Pelletier-Madsen
Van & Sue
Mark Simmons
Valerie McGillivray
A.G. Muchal
Randy Pepper
Heather McGregor
Lyle Mufford
Mary Anne Peters
Janet Riehm
Shannon Singh
Tom McGregor
Al Mulholland
Simmah Petersen
Lynn Ring
Carol Sinnemann
Megan McIlroy
Jane Mulkewich
Rita Petrescu
Cynthia Rioux
Constance Sirois
Kenneth McIntosh
Colette Murphy
Dianne Pettitt
Matthew Rix
Margaret Sirry
Dr. Kenneth Murray
Marc Picard
Ralph Rix
Rosa Skiby
Margaret McIntosh
Naveen Murthy
Karen Piefer
Andrew Robb &
Dr. James Skidmore
Robert McIntosh
Ven Murthy
Winnifred Pietrykowski
Kenneth McKay
Hoda Nachef
Susan Pigott
Marjorie Robb-Aquino
Laurentine Skuzani
Audrey McKim
Sophie Nadeau
Donna Pimm
Bruce Roberts
Eddy Slater
Rena McKoy
Rosalie Nagler
Sandra Pimpao
Linda Roberts
Bob & Ellen Smith
Max Mclaughlin
Rosemary Nation
Luan A. Pinto
Molly Roberts
Bruce Smith
Donald McMaster
Élisabeth Naud
Jean-Marie Piquette
Michael Rochester
Heather Smith
Veronica McNeil
Shannon Nelson
Solange Plamondon
Gord Rodgers
Linda Smith
Rosemary McVicar
Clinton Neufeld
Nicolas Plante
David Roe
Nancy Smith
Jeremy Mealia-Budd
Heather Neun
Fanny Poisson
Mark Rogers
Nicole Smith
Maria Mealia-Budd
Jacqueline Neun
Helene Poitras
Linda Rolstone
Pauline & Harold Smith
Margaret Meehan
Barbara Neuwelt
Patrice Pollack
Gilberto Romero
Rachael Smith
Andrew Melton
Emilie Newell
Jacinthe Pomerleau
Jacinthe Rousseau
Jacqui Smyth
Sandra Ménard
Nicole Newell
Marc Pomerleau
Pierre-Luc Roux
Aranka Somlo
Bonnie Mende
Patricia Ngopya Nono
Martin Pomerleau
Marie-Julie Roy
Jennifer Song
Jessica Mende
Ellen Nichols
Marilyn Poncelet
Michel Royer
Hélène Soumis
Volker Mende
Vanessa Nicolson
Kit Ling Poon
Linda Rubuliak
Kathleen Spidle
Georges Mensink
Lambrina Nikolaou
Laura Porcher
Michael Rudiak
Sybil Spragge
Maria Merai
Dr. Andrew Nimmo
Ian Potts
Elise Rudland
Don Sproule
Claire Mercier
Erica Nol
Marie Thérèse Poulin
Jennifer Rutledge
Kevin St. Michael
Éric Mercier
Ally Noormohamed
Morena Prats
Nadini Sankarsingh
Jean-Marc &
Amelia Merrick
Kelly O’Brien
Kelsy Presl
Sandra Santos
Karen St. Pierre
Mathieu Meunier
Gary O’Connor
Lisa Prinn
Sheyfali Saujani
Leaugonn Starmen
Catherine Meyerhoff
M.J. O’Keefe
Elmer Proult
Paul Saunders
Dianne Staruch
Stephen Meyles
Alain O’Leary
Mary Proulx
& Candis L. Bod
Richardson
Jasmin Uhthoff
Dorothy Shim
Sharon Simpson
Pamela Skinner
Dr. Michael Stephenson
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Alistair Stewart
Verne Tant
Linda Turner
Leslie Wakelyn
Elizabeth Stewart
Marilyn Tate
Susan Turner
Neil & Linda Walker
Tom Stewart
Jim Taylor
Carol Uyede
William Wallace
Marcia Williamson
Rosella Stoesz
André Tchokogue
Carol van der Veer
Susan Wallis
Glenda Wilson
Jacqueline Straford
Raphaêl Théberge
Julian Van Mossel-Forrester
Mary-Jane Walsh
Marcia Wilson
Christopher Stratford
Normand Therrien
Debbie Walton
Melanie Wilson
Karen Streich
Yvon Thivierge
Virginia Van Vliet
Jason Wan
Dr. Ruth Wilson
Rachel Stringer
Sal Thomas
Agnès van’t Bosch
Cedric Wang
Bonnie Winter
Christine Stringer-Trahan
Dr. Douglas Thompson
Dianne Vandervlist
Warren Waters
Claire Winterton
Kathy Stuart
Patricia Thompson
Harry Vedelago
Maria Watson
Sandra Witherspoon
Michael Stuhidreier
Ruth Thompson
Richard Veenstra
Wade Watson
Patricia A. Wojcik
David Su
Erin Thomson
Daniel Veillette
Cindy Weeks
Sean Wolfe
Jeannie-Laure Sully
Joan Thorniley
Amélie Venne
Tena Wei
Randy Wollen
Joan Sutcliffe
Joan Anne Thraves
Karen Veres
Alison Weidlich
John Wonfor
Janet Sutherland
Elmer Tory
Iain Verigin
Laura Wen
Greg Woodworth
Sherilyn Sutton
Alain Trahan
Louise Verrette
Jean-Philippe
Eileen WooMing
Warren Sutton
Diane Trahan
Stephen Vesuwalla
Jewel Swanson
An Tran
Daniel Vézina
Norman West
Lana Wright
Roderick Syme
Ghislaine Tremblay
Marie Vic Giasson
Jennifer Whang
Russell Wyatt
Fred Symyk
Geneviève Trempe
Josephine Vickers
Andrew & Nora Whyte
Jocelyne Yelle
Ashley Tait
Martha Trottier
John & Barbara Viglasky
Margaret M. Whyte
Bonnie Young
Karen Tait
Johanne Truchon
Wilbrod Villemure
Sandra Wickes
Judy Zachariassen
Karen Takacs
Denyse Trudel
Linda Voss
Conny Wiens
Andy Ze-Jeng Hung
Kevin Tam
Ray Tucker
Paula Vrbanovic
Karl & Susan Wilberg
Margaret Zurbrigg
Madeline Tam
Margaret Tudor-Roberts
Susan Wade
Mindy Willett
Eric Tang
Denise Turcotte
Barb Wagner
Derek Williams
& Sarah Anderson
Wendt Soubeiga
Mark Allen Williams
& Johanna Martine Borsu
Rex Wooming
My Crossroads experience to Lesotho in 1975
fundamentally changed my view of the world.
I’ve continued to support CCI ever since because
the organization has strived to ensure that its
work is as relevant today as it was in the 70’s
— working with partners around the globe for
change, tolerance and justice on a fragile planet.
Randy A. Pepper, Partner, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt (Lesotho 1975)
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Funders
Canadian International
Development Agency
Human Resources and Skills
Development Canada
Industry Canada
Ministère des Relations
internationales du Québec
Organizational Donors
1116789 Alberta Limited
o/a Mountain Springs
Supervision
2619 8838 Quebec Inc.
Claude Ferland
Abris- Temps Inc
AÉMEL
AGECT Cégep
Trois-Rivières
Aides aux missions
Alimentation Gauthier
et frères Enr.
ALPPAMM
Assur Experts Jolicoeur
et Fils inc.
Astral Media
Atelier du Martin – Pêcheur
Atlantis Steak and
Lobster Co. Ltd.
Caisse populaire Desjardins
du Passage
Caisse populaire Desjardins
des Cascades
Caisse populaire Desjardins
Les Estacades
CIBC
Fabrique St-Damien
de Bedford
Fawkes Technologies
FideArt
Fondation du Cégep Ste-Foy
Fondation Marcelle et
Jean Coutu
du St-Rosaire
Les Soeurs des Saints
Sisters of Saint Martha
Carmen and Frances D’Intino
Fonds d’Aide F.É.C. Frères des
London South Rotary Club
Management Consultants Inc.
Écoles Chrétiennes
Footprint Strategic
Communications Inc.
Chevaliers Colomb 3317
Future Shop de Trois rivières
Children’s Aid Society
Garage Bovette Inc.
of Halifax
Clinique Dentaire Dufour
et Pilote
Clinique Dentaire Gauvin
Michaud Senc
Clinique dentaire Jean
Thibeault
Clinique podiatrique
François Giroux
Gateway Honda
Gestion Cérébrum Inc.
Gestion Jesse «En Fidéicommis»
Dr. Hervé Wilson
Gestion Trébert Inc.
Governement du Québec
Granite Centre Beebe Inc
Great Canadian Dollar Store
Groupe d’Entraide la Lanterne
SBA Expert-Conceils Estrie
Marie du Québec
Les Toiles BSL
Living Word Ministries
Charitable Trust
– Courtice Branch
Saxon Bay Learning Company
Sigma Phi Gamma Sorority
Fondation Tourisme Jeunesse
CGI Information Systems and
Royal Bank of Canada
Noms de Jésus et de
Capilano College
Maison provinciale des filles
de la charité
Maison provinciale des
Ursulines
Matrix Architecture &
Planning Inc.
McCain Foods Canada
Merck Frosst Canada Ltd.
Métro Gagnon
Monastère des Ursulines
de Québec
Moniales Carmélites de
Dolbeau
Moniales Carmélites
africaines
Société des Missions
Étrangères AS/ Richard
Brodeur
Soeurs de la Charité d’Ottawa
Maison Béthanie
Soeurs de la Charité
de Québec
Soeurs de Notre-Dame
du Saint-Rosaire
Soeurs de Sainte-Anne
du Quebec
Soeurs de Sainte-Croix
Soeurs de St-François-d’Assise
St. Andrews Presbyterian
Church
Harborough Marketing
Club Optimiste
Humboldt Journal
Mount Temple Chapter I.O.D.E.
I.S.I. Inc.
Municipalité de la Doré
STI B.G.B. Inc.
IBM Employees’
New Genesis Leadership Group
Supermarché GP
Normand Fallon Inc.
Syndicat canadien de
Champlain-Brossard
Club Optimiste
St-François-Xavier
Club Optimiste St-Georges
Charitable Fund
Innisfail Park And Sell
O.O.S. Medical
Institut St-Joseph
Œuvres caritatives des Filles
de Champlain
Blackstock Lions Club
Collège Salette
Intellection Consulting Inc.
Boisseries Design Paul
Confédération des
Inter Fonction Ltée.
syndicats nationaux
Déchaussées
Société des Missions
Club Age D’or
Au petit baril, Café Bar
F. Raymond Inc.
tion de Notre Dame
Les Soeurs de Notre-Dame
J. P. Plumet Inc.
de Jésus, Canada
Œuvres et Missions
de Don Bosco
St. James Bond United
Church
la fonction publique
Technicolor Services Créatifs
Canada Inc.
Ten Thousand Villages
Thrifty Location d’auto
Bruce McKenzie Architect Ltd.
Construction Roger Fortin Inc.
K E Babcock & Associates
Œuvres Josaphat-Vanier
Track Designs
Bureau vétérinaire François
Décoration intérieure F.B.
K-W House Church Assembly
Pharmacie Gourdet
Ursuline Nuns of Bruno
L’A-Droit de Chaudière-
Pharmacie Suzie Roy et
Village of Point Edward
Céryre Enrg.
C.E.C.R. St-Hyacinthe
1979 Inc
Delta Land Development Ltd.
Appalaches
Depanneur MIA
L’Éxperience
CADA Construction Inc.
Derusha Supply Inc.
La Fabrique de la Paroisse
Caisse populaire de
Design Mystic Enr.
l’Anse (Portneuf)
Desjardins Centre
Œuvres Diocésaines
Caisse Desjardins Crémazie
de Montréal
Caisse Desjardins du Parc Sir
GE.Cartier de Montréal
Caisse populaire de Mont-Joli
Caisse populaire Desjardins
Bellevue de Québec
Caisse populaire Desjardins
de Breakeyville
Caisse populaire Desjardins
de la Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy
Caisse populaire Desjardins
de la Valée du Saint-Maurice
Caisse populaire Desjardins
de Saint-Félicien-La Dore
Caisse populaire Desjardins
de St-Rédempteur
Caisse populaire Desjardins
Des Versants du Mont-Comi
administratif de l’Estrie
Desjardins Transit
Desjardins, Caisse Cité-duNord de Montréal
Desjardins-Centre
Administratif Rive-Sud
de Montréal
Developpement international
Desjardins
Docteure Odette
Lupien DMD
Dr. Fannie Brousseau,
Orthodontiste
Dr. Francois Juneau
Entreprises Dominion
Blueline Inc
Equipements de Monuments
Bomats Ltée
Expo Rénovation Inc.
de Saint-François d’Assise
La maison du pain
Le Groupe Option
Retraite Inc.
Les Antoniennes de Marie
Les Augustines de la
Claude Garceau Inc.
Présentation de Marie
Communautaire
Psynergie International Inc.
Purves & Associates
Insurance Agency
Ringwood Health
Buisson Inc.
Les Paroissiers de St.-Adèle
Les Petites Soeurs de la
Sainte-Famille
Les Religieuses de
Notre Dame du
Sacré-Coeur
Les Soeurs de la charité
de Québec
Les Soeurs de la Congréga-
Yahoo Xpress
Associates Inc.
M.H.-D.Q.
l’Assomption
Foundation
Will-Fran Heating Limited
Résidence des Berges Inc.
Resto du 9 Inc.
Les Oeuvres Hedwidge
l’arrondissement de la Baie
Walter and Duncan Gordon
R. Kim Perry and
miséricorde de Jésus,
Les Filles de Marie-de-
Ville de Saguenay-Bureau de
Consultations
Rock of Ages Canada Inc.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR:
KAREN TAKACS
DIRECTOR, EXTERNAL RELATIONS:
CHRISTINE CAMPBELL
Ron Rule Consultants Ltd.
WRITING, RESEARCH:
LAURIER BROWN
Rona H. Matteau & Fils
CONCEPT AND DESIGN: SOAPBOX
Rotary Club of
Illustrations: Ben Weeks
Grande Prairie
Rotary Club of Kamloops
Rotary Club of Terrace
Rotary Club of
Terrace-Skeena Valley
Royal Arch Masons of
CHARITABLE REGISTRATION
NUMBER: 12981 4570 RR0001
Address: 317 Adelaide St. West,
suite 500 Toronto, Ontario
M5V 1P9
Tel: 1.877.967.1611
Web site: www.cciorg.ca
Canada-Hiawatha
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2
Statement of Financial Position
2006
2005
$
$
1
3
Assets
Current Assets
Long-term Investments
Capital Assets
1,247,412
1,145,220
190,907
0
39,640
38,009
1,477,959
1,183,229
Liabilities and Net Assets
Net Assets
6
5
Revenue Excluding In
Kind Volunteer Contributions
Current Liabilities
4
683,602
1 CIDA – Core
64%
578,717
499,627
2 Provincial Governments
11%
1,477,959
1,183,229
3 Industry Canada
10%
899,242
Statement of Income
2006
2005
$
$
4 Fundraising
8%
5 CIDA – Other
6%
6 Other Revenue
1%
Revenues
2,479,046
2,251,817
Federal Government – CIDA – IYIP
120,000
170,279
Federal Government – CIDA – ICT4G
108,000
0
Federal Government – Industry Canada
390,000
374,655
Federal Government – CIDA
Other Federal Government
44,409
8,236
3,141,455
2,804,987
1
Provincial Government Contributions (Quebec)
Other Regional Programs
440,187
4
607,803
0
37,980
440,187
645,783
Fundraising – National/Regional/Local
182,015
175,514
Fundraising – Crossroader 133,932
122,508
44,767
32,153
Volunteer Contributions
1,780,083
1,767,872
2,140,797
2,098,047
5,722,439
5,548,817
Other Revenues
3
2
Expenditures Excluding In
Kind Volunteer Contributions
1 Direct Program Expenses
86%
2 Administration & Management 12%
3 Governance & Committees
1%
4 Fundraising
1%
Expenses
Direct Program Expenses
Program Expenses
1,350,548
1,218,281
468,656
456,709
Program Salaries and Benefits 1,514,583
1,476,723
Contributions by Volunteers
1,702,479
1,708,032
5,036,266
4,859,745
Partnership, Capacity Building and Public Engagement
Program and Volunteer Support
463,847
480,899
Governance and Committees
29,754
39,652
Fundraising
35,878
45,198
National Office (including salaries and benefits)
77,604
59,840
607,083
625,589
5,643,349
5,485,334
79,090
63,483
Contributions by Volunteers
Net Income
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CANAD IAN C R O S S R OAD S I NTE R NATI O NAL
The Friends of Canadian Crossroads
Foundation (FCCF) is a separate charitable
foundation that supports other registered
charities and, in particular, Canadian
Crossroads International. As of March 31,
2006, FCCF had accumulated a surplus
of $481,175. As of March 31, 2005,
the accumulated surplus of FCCF was
$486,576.
The 2005-2006 audited financial
statements for Canadian Crossraods
International and FCCF are available on
our Web site (www.cciorg.ca) or upon
request by calling our national office.