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AGENDA for CWEF 10th AGM1. Minutes of Sept 25th, 2009 AGM and Business arising from the Minutes
2. President’s Introductory Remarks; welcoming ICA Board members (H Patel)
3. Report of the Auditor (Board)
MOTION: That the 2008-09 Auditor’s Report be received.
4. Appointment of the Auditor for 2010-2011 (Board)
MOTION: That Gerald Duthie & Co. be appointed as the Auditor for
CWEF for 2010-2011.
5. Committee Reports
i. Website and Awareness Committee (S Bandyopadhyay)
ii. Finance Committee (R Mathur)
iii. Kenyan Chapter (H Joshi)
iv. Canadian Chapter (R Barron)
v. Assistance to Widows Committee (S Jasra)
vi. Nominating Committee (Board)
MOTION: That Melissa Hobbs, Shashi Jasra and Ravi Syal be approved as
Directors Elect for 2010-2011.
6. London Council (M Mathur)
7. Special Thanks to Rotary Club of Windsor (1918) (R Barron)
8. CBA Recognition (S Pandey)
9. Visits to Schools; Presentation by Rigya Arya (R Barron)
10. Special Donation from JK and Shali Chandna (R Caron)
11. Closing Remarks (Y Aneja)
12. Other Business
13. Adjournment
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Board of Directors
Yash Aneja
Kai Hildebrandt
Zhiguo Hu
Sushil Jain
Rakesh Kumar
Siyaram Pandey
Hasmukh Patel
Tim Traynor
Ron Barron (DE)
Harshad Joshi (DE)
Rakesh Mathur (DE)
Frank White (DE)
Officers
Hasmukh Patel (President)
Yash Aneja (Vice-President)
Rakesh Mathur (Treasurer)
Siyaram Pandey (Secretary)
Dan Britten (General Manager)
2009-2010
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Agenda Item #4
MOTION: That Gerald Duthie & Co. be appointed as the Auditors for CWEF for 2010-2011.
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Agenda Item #5i
Report from the Website and
Awareness Committee(Subir Bandyopadhyay)
Website Committee Members
Subir Bandyopadhyay (Chair)
Gary Champ
Manish Patel
Frank White (www.cwef.ca)
• current web information is out of date and lacks
features widely used by other similar organizations
• work to be done in two phases
• Phase 1: update data, add videos (completed)
• Phase 2, rewrite entire web site using a modern
package for developing websites (start in Fall)
• Thanks to Sathish Subramanian, Sanah Shaheen and
Arun Suryanarayanan for their work on Phase 1;
Manish Patel will be assisting with Phase 2
• Thanks to Vedant Pandey for preparing videos
• brochure has been designed and is available – thanks
to Meera Trivedi for adding her expertise
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Report from the Finance Committee(Rakesh Mathur)
Agenda Item #5ii
Finance Committee Members
Rakesh Mathur (Chair)
Amit Bagga
Dan Britten
Pardeep Jasra
Purna Kaloni
Meenal Sharma
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From August 1, 2009 to July 31, 2010, a total of 115 donations were received totaling $76,033
Canadian World Education Foundation
Total Donations by Year 2002 - 2010
2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10
Amount
Donated$50,847 $52,517 $62,432 $64,128 79,532 79,630 74,218 76,033
Number
of Donors59 63 95 103 102 105 97 115
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Account Details
Breakdown of Net Equity
Item Amount
Donations
Indian Chapter 451,114
Canadian Chapter 23,384
Kenyan Chapter 12,766
Rotary Club Windsor (1918) 12,501
Indian Chapter - London 9,743
Total Donations 509,508
Assistance Provided
Indian Chapter 433,000
Canadian Chapter 13,439
Kenyan Chapter 6,499
Rotary Club Windsor (1918) 0
Total Assistance Provided 448,938
Funds Remaining in Chapters
Indian Chapter 18,114
Indian Chapter - London 9,743
Canadian Chapter 9,945
Kenyan Chapter 6,267
Rotary Club of Windsor (1918) 12,501
Interest Income 12,163
Operating Expenses -12,225
Opening Balance 15,466
Net Equity 75,984
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Report from Kenyan Chapter(Harshad Joshi)
Agenda Item #5iii
Kenyan Chapter Committee
Members
Harshad Joshi (Chair)
Chandrakant Kania
Tom Nenadovic
Kumash Parikh
Rajinder Rana
Thanks to
Daniel Mungai
and
Kay Curtis
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Report from Canadian Chapter(Ron Barron)
Agenda Item #5iv
Canadian Chapter
Committee Members
Melissa Hobbs (Chair)
Heather Britten
Kai Hildebrandt
Zhigou Hu
Susan Wendt-Hildebrandt
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Canadian Chapter continued to work with General
Brock and Marlborough Public Schools, to build
resources in their Leveled Reading Rooms.
Chapter section on the website has been rewritten.
For 2010-2011, CC will be looking at providing
similar support to a third school in Windsor.
Other possible projects may also be considered.
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Report from Assistance to Widows
Committee (Shashi Jasra)
Agenda Item #5v
ATWC Members
Shashi Jasra(Chair)
Yash Aneja
Ranbir Gugneja
Sushil Jain
Siyaram Pandey
Rathna Prakash
Sneh Rana
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ATWC VOLUNTEERS 2009-2010
Preparation of Excel Sheets and
Cheques for 2010-2011
Yash Aneja
Arvind Arya
Ron Barron
Krishna Chandna
Om Chandna
HR Gandhi
Parshotam Gupta
Sushil Jain
Shashi Jasra
Mohan Mathur
Siyaram Pandey
Rathna Prakash
Sneh Rana
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The academic year 2010-2011
CWEF is working with 26 schools and at
least 8 colleges in 9 different states in India.
Will assist more than 610 mothers for the
education of approx. 700 plus children
From this Academic Year, those students already
getting support and continuing with Post Secondary
Education will be receiving additional Rs 1000/- . The
money is being provided by Mr. & Mrs. J.K.
Chandna
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INDIAN CHAPTER GROWTH –
Widows Assisted
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010
3 16 1554
96141
206290
338354
417
516 546614 620
Year
No. of
widows
assisted
(Projected)
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INDIAN CHAPTER GROWTH –
Children Assisted
7 24 2392
154192249
356398
464519
643 654715 720
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010
Year
No. of
children
assisted
(Projected)
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INDIAN CHAPTER
Funds Spent to Assist Widows
39621121980
712812672
18612
27192
38280
4461648180
52000
68500
60000
6472267000
0
10000
20000
30000
40000
50000
60000
70000
Assistance
($)
1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010
Year
(projected)
Certificates of Appreciation(Sushil Jain, Rakesh Kumar)
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Rigya Arya
Sumedha Arya
Harshil Jasra
Ajay Madaan
Mukesh Pandey
Nikhil Rana
Bhawna Sharma
Preeti Sharma
Preeti SharmaBhawna Sharma
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Report from Nominating Committee(Hasmukh Patel)
Agenda Item #5vi
MOTION: that
Melissa Hobbs,
Shashi Jasra,
Ravi Syal
be approved as Directors Elect for 2010-11.
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Nominations for 2010-2011 Committees
of the Canadian World Education Foundation
Finance
Committee
Rakesh Mathur (Chair)
Amit Bagga
Dan Britten
Pardeep Jasra
Purna Kaloni
Shahnaz Mahajan
Website and Awareness
Committee
Subir Bandyopadhyay (Chair)
Sanjay Chitte
Manish Patel
Sathish Subramanian
Sanah Shaheen
Frank White
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Canadian Chapter
Melissa Hobbs (Chair)
Heather Britten
Zhiguo Hu
Kai Hildebrandt
Susan Wendt-Hildebrandt
Indian Chapter: ATWC
Shashi Jasra (Chair)
Yash Aneja
Hansraj Gandhi
Sushil Jain
Siyaram Pandey
Rathna Prakash
Sneh Rana
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Kenyan Chapter
Harshad Joshi (Chair)
Chandrakant Kania
Daniel Mungai
Tom Nenadovic
Kumash Parikh
Rajinder Rana
Nominating
Committee
Dan Britten (Chair)
Ron Barron
Om Chandna
Hasmukh Patel
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Board of Directors
Yash Aneja
Ron Barron
Kai Hildebrandt
Zhiguo Hu
Harshad Joshi
Rakesh Mathur
Siyaram Pandey
Hasmukh Patel
Frank White
Melissa Hobbs (DE)
Shashi Jasra (DE)
Ravi Syal (DE)
Officers
Hasmukh Patel (President)
Yash Aneja (Vice-President)
Rakesh Mathur (Treasurer)
Siyaram Pandey (Secretary)
Dan Britten (General Manager)
2010-2011
Why CWEF London Council?
• Donors/members in London and their
friends feel that we should assist CWEF
beyond contributing funds by volunteering
time to better meet CWEF objectives
• CWEF London Council has created an
identity, which helps in recruiting new
donors.
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CWEF London Council
Contributions
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
7000
8000
9000
10000
06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11
DOLLARS
Contribution
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New Initiatives
• Volunteers for London Council activities:– Vineet Gupta, Vipin Bhayana, Vandana Nagpal-Shah,
Sunit Nanda, Parshotam Gupta, Mohan Mathur
• Fund raising: CWEF 2010 Inaugural Golf
Tournament, London, Sunday, October 10,
2010 – Organizers: Dinesh Sharma, Vineet Gupta, Vipin
Bhayana, Piyush Shah
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Agenda Item #7Special Thanks to Rotary Club of Windsor (1918)
(Ron Barron)
Rotarians Kay Curtis and Shari Cunningham visited India as part of
a Polio Plus National Immunization Day
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Visited Jaipur and met with Rotary Club of Jaipur Mid Town
In the academic year 2009-10, Rotary Club of Windsor (1918) and the
Rotary Club of Jaipur Mid Town adopted 3 schools
• During March 2010, in our trip to India we visited
three schools on behalf of CWEF.
1- Floradale Public School, Dilshad Gardens, Delhi
2- S. D. Sr. Sec. School, GT Karnal Road, Panipat
3- Gurgaon Girls Sr. Sec. School, Gurgaon (A
Government School)
Rigya Arya & Sumedha Arya
Agenda Item #9
CWEF School Visits (Ron Barron)
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Floradale
Public School
• Large, beautiful school
• 2200 students, 125 teaching staff
• School tuition: 2500 Rs/ month (≈ $ 50 US/ month)
• Extremely kind welcome 37
Spreading the Message
Mr. Arvind Arya gave a sincere, brief speech about the importance of
education as well as CWEF's plans to assist the students as long as
they pursued their studies.
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S.D. Sr. Sec. School
• 7000 children in whole school which is composed of:
– S.D. Senior Secondary School (Government School)
– S.D. Public School
– S.D. Girls School
– Engineering College
• School tuition: varies per school –12 Rs./month in main school
• S.D. Senior Secondary School: 1850 kids, 50 teachers 44
Gurgaon Girls
Sr. Sec. School
• No acting principal at the time - Mrs.
Kamini Kaushal substituting.
• Functioning volunteer: Mrs. Radha Gupta
• Quite different from the other two schools
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Dusty, unorganized carpentry workshop
Chemistry Room - many broken
shelves and beakers
Staff Lounge 49
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India Bound?
If you plan to visit India, then
maybe you can volunteer to visit
one or more of the Institutions
with which we are associated.