Welcome! Frontiers Foundation is a non-profit aboriginal voluntary service organization that promotes the advancement of economically and socially disadvantaged communities. Through the Operation Beaver Program, with volunteers from across the globe, we work with aboriginal communities to provide affordable housing and improvements in education. With the support of government and charitable donations, both from the private sector and individuals, we operate within Canadian borders, and Overseas.
Staff & the Board of Directors of Frontiers Foundation would like to take this opportunity to extend a warm & Happy Season’s Greetings to all our donors & friends of Frontiers Foundation.
Please join us for our Christmas Celebration !
Project Amik Community Room
5:00 Turkey Dinner
Please RSVP Marilyn @ 416-690-3930
If you would like to bring a refreshment to share please feel free to do so.
Kemp's old house
Late in October, Pat and Laura Kemp’s old house was mercifully demolished to make room for their new home, now being built by a score of local and non-local Operation Beaver volunteers, some of them lawyers from the Advocates’ Society, which has godfathered this project.
Penosway's new home
Meanwhile in Kitcisakik, Quebec, Jean-Paul Penosway, his wife Nadia and their four children have, like two other Algonquin families, moved into brand new homes they built themselves, supervised by Frontiers’ Quebec Co-ordinator Lylas Polson. Formerly they had lived in one-room shacks, in Third World conditions. Every inch of construction lumber in Kitcisakik’s new homes, their new school, their new resource centre and equipment shelters, was milled by Frontiers Foundation’s busy Woodmizers. And thanks to Ottawa’s Aboriginal Skills Training Strategic Initiative (ASTSIF). Kitcisakians like Jean-Paul have received onsite training in milling and framing, roofing and insulation. Similar activity is progressing at Collins, Ontario with Namaygoosisagun Ojibwa First Nation and in Manitoba with the Garden Hill Cree First Nation.
Haiti - Leucena agroforestry project
In Haiti, excitement prevails in St. Michel de L’Attalaye at their bursting-at-the-seams new school with its flourishing students’ gardens, but our ACCORD partners there are determined to revive their tree nursery destroyed by quadruple hurricanes in 2008. Their original leucena agroforestry project, jointly funded by Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and Frontiers (shown in 3. above) enabled ACCORD to “Keep St. Michel green” as everyone was required to replace every tree taken down for charcoal with two new seedlings. Also a full range of vegetable and even peanuts were successfully inter-cropped with leucena’s amazing fertilizing properties. Frontiers is currently appealing to CIDA for help in restoring and even expanding St. Michel’s formerly impressive agroforestry capability.
Your gift to Frontiers Foundation designated for Operation Beaver in Canada or overseas, or alternatively for Project Amik II will be as faithfully applied as it will be gratefully received.
You are cordially invited to attend our Annual General Meeting to be held at 419 Coxwell Avenue (south of Danforth Avenue and north of Gerrard Street) in east Toronto.
This invite is extended to all members of Operation Beaver Division and friends.
BBQ will be served at 5:00 pm. There is plenty of parking at Amik Plaza.
Following the AGM, the regular Board of Directors meeting will take place at 7:30 pm.
Note: Frontiers Foundations members are encouraged to renew their membership for the period of September 30, 2010 to September 30, 2011.
Frontiers delivers emergency goods to Haiti
Charles, with the Frontiers Foundation pickup, delivered 465 Kgs. (800 pounds) of rice, beans, canned goods, medical items and sleeping mats for shipment to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Shipment costs were donated by Air Canada.
On May 27, 2010 3 p.m. a delegation of influential Hispanic Canadians from across Canada met with Hon. Stephen Harper at Parliament Hill.
The Spanish speaking delegation organized by the Canadian Hispanic Business Association from five different provinces included Frontiers Foundation Executive Director Dr. Marco A. Guzman who hails from the Aymara town of Huarina, Bolivia and was one of the (2007) award winners. Dr. Guzman had the chance to convey a brief message on the work of our made- in-Canada Aboriginal voluntary service organization on the number one priority in this country: affordable housing.
Mike Welch: Operation Beaver 2009 Volunteer of the Year
PLACE:
The Flora McCrea Auditorium
East Side of the Church
(Entrance - on Dunvegan Road)
SPEAKER & Guest of Honour:
Mike J. Welch, MSc. P.Geo.
Vice President , Raglan Mine
Xstrata Nickel
20 Years Mining Experience in Canada & Internationally, Member of the Board, Frontiers Foundations.
On Saturday May 1, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. former Frontiers Foundation Board Member Larry Leone Niford welcomed everyone to our charitable fund raising concert held at Rosedale United Church in Toronto. Chief Leone spoke briefly about the nature of our Aboriginal voluntary service organization and introduced the East York Barbershoppers chorus under the direction of Pat Hannon.
Staff & the Board of Directors of Frontiers Foundation would like to take this opportunity to extend a warm & Happy Season’s Greetings to all our donors & friends of Frontiers Foundation.
