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Our mission is to bring the best musicians and teachers of the Lower Mainland to Delta. Our school serves the needs of Ladner, Tsawwassen, North Delta, and other communities in the Lower Mainland. We offer private music lessons in clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, guitar, piano, voice, violin, viola, cello, choir, band, jazz ensemble, Music Theory and History. We also administer outreach programs including the Thrive City String Boot Camp and the South Delta Jazz Festival and Workshop.

We recognize the importance of the early years in the process of child development. Therefore, our goal is to be responsive, mobilizing and supporting community efforts to provide a positive learning environment for young children by facilitating parent and teacher education and providing practical forms of assistance for the learning context. We help to ensure that the children get the best possible nutrition, educational and developmental programs. We feel this will reduce social and economic disparities, as well as provide the best opportunity for the children to compete in the global economy.

Our Objectives are to: A. Assist impoverished communities and families in moving out from temporary shelters into proper housing facilities. B. Provide educational scholarships for the impoverished but deserving students in India. C. Support inmates of old age homes and orphanages in India by providing basic amenities. D. Support, develop, design programs to motivate and retrain teachers, enhance and improve the learning experience in the classroom and add new facilities in the existing schools e.g., provide drinking water, blackboards and toilets where required.

The Ssubi Foundation undertakes the following activities in Uganda, East Africa; 1.providing financial aid and school supplies (including school fees, uniforms, scholastic materials, medical costs, meals and transportation); 2.supporting the existing Ugandan school system by, building new school blocks or renovating existing schools, providing scholastic materials, and providing training and/or competitive salaries to teachers; and, 3. establishing micro-financing opportunities to help Ugandan families start small businesses.

Our mission is to use the power of music to bridge divides, connect communities, and heal the wounds of war. We aim to inspire people worldwide to engage as peacemakers and use music to transform lives. Today, Musicians Without Borders engages with artists, social activists and communities worldwide. We share expertise as we work to enable musicians to be advocates, activists, teachers, and performers, with the message: war divides, music connects. Musicians Without Borders (MWB) is a global network that uses music for peacebuilding and social change.

Outside the Lens (OTL) activates and amplifies voices of historically marginalized individuals through photography, filmmaking, and media arts, catalyzing change within themselves, their community, and the world. For over 20 years, we have delivered an adaptable curriculum to 22,000 youth in weekly classes, after-school programs, summer sessions, workshops, and teacher training. We use cameras and digital media along with a proven educational strategy that allows youth to think creatively, engage in issues that are important to them, and advocate for social change.

The Canadian Education Association (CEA) is a cross-Canada network of influencers in the education, research and policy, not-for-profit and business sectors conducting research, generating constructive ideas, and sharing them with educators, students, and other stakeholders. CEA is committed to: -advancing ideas that lead to greater student and teacher engagement; -teaching that inspires all students to learn; -schools that ensure both equity and excellence to meet the developmental needs of all learners in our global and changing society. CEA is seeding ideas, illuminating research, and influencing practice – for the success of every learner.

The Foundation of SJS & NTC has a mission for today: to raise funds, coordinate fundraising activities, and manage investments to meet the operating expenses of the Seminary and College. Newman Theological College and St. Joseph Seminary provide a foundation of theological understanding for both religious and lay leaders. Whatever their calling--ordained priests or lay ministers in churches; chaplains in hospitals, the military or prisons; teachers in the Catholic school system; or one of many ministries in the secular world--our graduates depend upon your contribution toward their development and work.

Project TEMBO or 'TEMBO'(Tanzania Education and Micro-Business Opportunity) is a registered Canadian charity that provides funding and support to girls and women pursuing educational and small business goals in the Maasai homeland of rural northern Tanzania. TEMBO'S focus is in the villages of Longido and Kimokouwa in northern Tanzania. Our objectives are to: 1. Enable girls to pursue secondary school education by providing financial assistance and materials. 2. Provide funding for vocational training and for teacher training. 3. Operate a Community Library Program open to all residents in Longido District.

For close to a decade, Fertile Ground has offered encouragement to small tea growers, farming families, NGO's, agricultural extension staff, teachers and students in rural Assam. Through partnerships with like-minded organizations in towns and in remote villages, we have helped to initiative organic demonstration gardens where people learn to produce compost, vermicompost and other natural inputs made from locally-available materials. We respect traditional knowledge and practices, and explore ways to combine that local wisdom with techniques that are sustainable and environmentally-sound.

In 2005 our sister organization, Village Schools International, opened our first 3 schools, built 22 classrooms, received 13 missionary teachers from America, and enrolled 832 students. Today, we have twenty-six schools in villages in Tanzania which are providing an education to nearly 7300 students, and we are currently partnering with people in 188 villages, working together to try to build an additional 138 classrooms this year and to open at least two more of the six new schools under construction.

The purpose of the "ORAH" Endowment Fund is to achieve or support, for an exclusively of general interest, any cultural, educational or social action aimed, in France and abroad, at: - Transmit, promote and disseminate the cultural, literary and artistic heritage linked to the Zohar and Kabbalah; - Promote knowledge and influence of Jewish culture and the history of Judaism to the general public (general public, teachers, researchers, academic world); - Provide material, psychological and moral assistance to vulnerable people of all faith, in particular families, sick or disabled adults, people elderly, single women or single mothers