Picked up on Weitzenegger’s Website for International Development Cooperation, and its Newsletter.
- To provide down-to-earth training for 20,000 participants in agriculture, developmental topics and other income generating activities by year 2010.
- To build a community for the Canadians abroad called « Maple Village » in a centrally located area in Africa for African-Canadians by 2015.
- To be actively involved in, committed to and promote rural and community development projects in Canadian communities and in Africa.
- To collaborate with both national and international institutions, development and donor agencies with simillar aims and objectives like CEFARD.
- To establish one-stop intitutions and vocational training centres and render consultancy services and knowledge sharing and information bank on agriculture and developmental issues.
- To render consultancy services to individuals, organizations, government agencies and institutions. (Initiatives).
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About: CEFARD is a not-for-profit, non-governmental, and humanitarian organisation. CEFARD’s mandate is to champion the course of global poverty alleviation through agricultural resources and developmental tools mostly in the developing nations of the world.
Our Vision:
- Engage actively in global agricultural revival campaign for gross food production to create wealth for poverty alleviation.
- Participate in the course of development in fulfilling the mandate of the millennium development goals of the United Nations.
Our Mission:
- Empowering men, women and youths to improve their livelihood through skill training, disseminating and application of knowledge into sustainable agriculture, rural community development and capacity building.
Our Mode of Operation:
- 1. Through lectures, training workshops and seminars.
- 2. Organising conferences, exibitions and agricultural shows.
- 3. Partnering with organisations and donor agencies.
- 4. Organising fund raising and other income generating programmes for the needies and less priviledged.
- 5. Establishment of information and resource centre.
- 6. Consultancy services on agricultural and developmental issues.