Annual Report from the Centre for Excellence in International Development
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The Centre for Excellence in International Development (CEID), a federally charted non-profit charity, has been in existence since July of 2009. It is operated by a national Board of Directors. Dr. John Fryters, representing Saskatchewan on the Board, also acts its “interim” CEO.
CEID has accepted the following objectives :
1. To relieve poverty in developing nations by providing food and other basic supplies to persons in need;
2. To develop or promote public health in developing nations by educating and instructing the public on prevention of, and curative measures for health problems and by providing medication to persons in need;
3. To build essential facilities for impoverished communities, including wells, schools, and orphanages; and
4. To provide the necessities of life to victims of disasters.
5. All of the objectives are in line with the United Nations 8 Millenium Development Goals which are to be achieved by 2015.
6. While the first two years of CEID operations were used to develop overall plans and, more importantly, a strategic direction, this year (2011/2012) has seen the beginnings of actual international development work in the field. Some of these “small” beginnings included :
* minor financial assistance towards conducting an environmental study within a squatter community called Las Palmeras (Puente Bolivar) about 250 km north of the capital city of Lima in Peru. This community recently received a relatively safe water supply and is now looking a the development and * minor financial assistance towards the building of a sanitation project in the small village of Pakro, just north of the capital city of Accra, Ghana. The Coca Cola Foundation recently installed a safe water supply. The Brampton Christian Fellowship in Brampton, Ontario is assisting with the provision of
* CEID recently bought a soap making machine and the initial chemicals needed to make soap, perfume and oil in the village of Longira in the new Republic of South Sudan. This project will be operated by the women of the Pentecostal Church in Longira. This little “factory” will use the twigs, branches and wood of the lulu tree (which grows bountifully within that area of South Sudan and Northern Uganda) to make this soap. It will provide necessary financial support to some extremely poor families.
* CEID recently set up a micro-finance agency in the community of Lire in the new Republic of South Sudan. It will be supervised by the Pentecostal Church of Sudan. The fund will provide small no interest loans to women (many of them single moms and widows) who can then start their own little businesses such as marketing vegetables at the loca market, selling cooked foods on the streets, sewing and selling clothing, etc…. It, again, will provide necessary financial support to extremely poor families. This fund will, of course, if paid back by the lenders, be an on-going, revolving loan fund. The financing was provided to CEID by a local church within the Prince Albert area.
