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September 2009		Distribution of clothes sent us from Houston, USA, among children of our Foundation.
August 2009		In the framework of the Developing My Special Talents program, signed with INFA, we pay a stipend of $22 a month to 109 handicapped children. The stipend pays for transportation of the children to the treatment center.
		In the celebration of the Youth Day, 800 young people marched in a parade on the streets of the City of Ventanas on August 17. They completed the holiday in the Ventanas Sport Center with variety of art programs.
		In August, employees and volunteers of the Foundation, as well as other interested people, received practical training in making creations from inflated balloons. The training lasted a few weeks and served to encourage people to start their own microeconomic activity.
		At the beginning of August, we started construction of rest rooms for children using our mess hall. We estimate the construction will be completed at the end of November.
July 2009		On July 17, we have a meeting of parents of children in the Developing My Special Talents program. The meeting was about the AH1N1 (swine) flu. 109 people attended the meeting.
July 2009		On July 17, we pay parents of 200 school children from poor families, money received by our Foundation from the Education Is The Best Option INFA project. An elementary and middle school student has received $88, while high school student has received $110.
June 2009		In the observance of the Father’s Day on June 21, we organized a raffle to raise funds for food for our mess. The main prize was a cake.
		On June 14, the Foundation staff and a group of people from the Social Participation movement had training about values and passing the values to the youth. The training speaker came from the "HUMAN MILLENIUM" Foundation based in Quito, the capital of Ecuador.
		On June 3, we have training about requirements for people responsible for implementing projects sponsored by the Foundation and INFA.
		At the beginning of June, we, together with INFA, organized a few cultural and artistic events, like exhibitions and folk dances. The participants were children from our Foundation and from neighboring schools.
May 2009 (click at the picture to view the gallery)		In the middle of May, we completed a new entrance to our newly opened mess hall. Till then, we used a temporary passage via car garage. We had to stabilize the ground, secure the entrance with a wire fence and install the door. The total cost of the project was US$ 2 500.
		At the beginning of May, a teacher has started working in our Foundation in the afternoon hours. He helps the children with their homework.
		In the middle of the month, we signed a third agreement with INFA: to help our mess. The CAE (School Help Mess) project’s goal is to provide a teacher to our mess and partial schools help for 30 children.
		On the second Sunday of May, we celebrated Mother’s Day in the Foundation. In Ecuador, Mother’s Day is always on the second Sunday of May.
April 2009 (click at the picture to view the gallery)		Each Saturday, women (mothers of children from our Foundation) work for our community to raise funds for the mess hall. On April 25, they prepared fish sandwiches that we sell for $1 a piece. This helps us with food purchases for the mess hall.
		On Monday, April 20, we inaugurated our new mess hall for the children of the Foundation, It is not fully functional yet, BUT FINALLY, WE ARE ON OUR OWN PROPERTY. What's missing is: painting the walls, putting tile on the floor, installing windows, children restrooms and a pantry. WE HEARTILY THANK all who has helped us till now to realize this project.
		We have signed a second agreement with INFA to cooperate in helping the disabled. The project named "Developing my special talents" applies to 130 disabled, including speech impaired, children.
March 2009 (click at the picture to view the gallery)		On Friday, March 27, we have signed a contract with INFA regarding the execution of one out of our four projects which aim is to assist children who don’t belong to our Foundation with their education. The name of this first project is “Education is the Best Option”.
		Because of the possibility of collaboration with the Department of Social Matters of Ecuador (MIES), we have to renew the direction of the Foundation for the next two years .
		We have been continuing the construction works at the dining room. Very soon we will focus on adjusting the kitchen in order to be able to start using the new dining room as soon as possible.
		The mayor of the City of Ventanas allowed the kids of our Foundation to use the recreational facilities (swimming pools) free of charge.
February 2009		This month, with the help of Frank Molski from Houston, Texas, we were able to transfer the web page of the Foundation to a new server. It has been paid for three years. For this reason the name of the web page got changed. The new one is www.fundacion-fushenfu-ecu.org. Many thanks to Frank! We would also like to thank Mariusz Serwach from Chalupki, Poland, for hosting and updating our web page at the Chalupki’s server.
January 2009		In February we have continued the construction of the new dining room for the Foundation. We have made a concrete beam and erected the walls. Now we have to wait until it is possible to take out the scaffolding and continue the interior work (electric installation, plumbing, etc.)
		One of the girls having finished the secondary school, leaves the Foundation, according to the statues of our institution. We are glad that for the past three years we could together prepare her for the next stages of her life.
		We were accredited by the Department of Social Matters of Ecuador to manage public (governmental) funds, becoming at the same time a partner of this Department.
		We have presented 8 projects to the Department of Social Matters for partnership funding. If granted, the Foundation will be responsible for their execution.