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CCI starts a new project in India

In its efforts to prevent child-labour and encourage the education of children, CCI has begun a new project in India, in the region of Andhra Pradesh, where CCI has already been working for several years. Four villages now benefit from this new project. This new initiative, begun last Winter, has four facets :

(1) Coaching in the Health sector
Parents are often unable to work because of several health problems, usually caused by the absence of prevention measures and good hygiene habits. A nurse is now assigned full-time in four fishing villages near The Rainbow Centre to provide basic health services (e.g. vaccinations, perinatal care), as well as some hygiene education.

(2) Financial support for marginalised women
Self-help groups have been formed to encourage financial independence for marginalised women who receive financial assistance in the form of micro-credits to kick-start a micro-enterprise. A part-time social worker has been assigned to back-up these groups, and to provide support to the women in their micro-enterprise efforts.

(3) Financial assistance for schools
Schools in two villages now benefit from financial assistance for the purchase of furniture, instructional materials and school uniforms. Two teacher’s aide positions have also been created in each village so as to provide a sound education to all children.

(4) Formation of a catch-up class
A catch-up class was formed this past winter so as to provide schooling to about 30 children in the region who were still unschooled. These children will be able to enter the regular school system as soon as the next academic year begins, thanks to CCI’s financial support.

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• CCI Awards!

  During the past few weeks CCI has received two awards for its activities and accomplishments over the past few years. Roxana Robin, CCI's director-general and founder, shares these prizes with the members of the Board of Directors who have been deeply involved in the organization from its very beginning, as well as with CCI's volunteers and other collaborators.

• November 23 2006
  Interview with Roxana Robin on Radio-Canada - la première chaîne with Michel Desautels
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• November 19, 2006
  During a ceremony organised by the YMCA of Greater Montreal, Roxana Robin receives the 2006 Peace Medal.

• November 12, 2006
  Roxana Robin receives a medal from the Order of the Chevaliers de Sainte-Catherine du Sinaï du Québec for her commitment to fighting against child slavery.

• October 7, 2006
  Interview with Roxana Robin on 98.5 FM with Richard Martineau –
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• October 6, 2006
  Interview with Roxana Robin on Radio-Canada 1 with Christiane Charette –
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• Octobre 2006
  Our 2006 benefit performance was a great success! All the members of CCI/AIPE would like to thank the artists who took part in the show, the volunteers who worked on the organisation of this event, and our promoters, as well as the audience all of whom ensured that this wonderful evening was full of emotion. Septembre 2006
  

• September 2006
  On October 8, CIC/AIPE will present a benefit performance entitled «  200 million children  » at the «  Lion d'Or  », with a well-known and loved Quebec personality as emcee: Sophie Durocher . We hope to make the general public more deeply aware of the growing plagues of child slavery and sexual tourism, which attack millions of children throughout the world. CCI intends to use the income produced that night to begin work on a third home for freed children in a country soon to be announced.
  
  Produced by André Pappathomas, our show will be a joyful event, despite the tragic nature of our cause. There will be music and songs provided by well-known Quebec artists such as Mara Tremblay, Tomás Jensen, Philippe Laloux, Isabelle Blais and Caïman Fu, as well as the duo Louis et le Voyageur . The evening will also be punctuated by short musical productions by young artists from Collège Villa-Maria : the Maria Super Métal group.

• January 31, 2006
  
• Decembre 23, 2005
  CCI wishes everyone a Merry Christmas!
  Roxana Robin sent the following message detailing the latest news from the Rainbow Centre.
• Decembre 3, 2005
  News from the Rainbow Centre
  At the end of November 2005, Roxana Robin, General Director, began her three-month visit to the Rainbow Centre, during which she oversaw the construction phase of the new Centre. Here’s what she had to say shortly after arriving at the Centre.
• 26 septembre, 2005
  CCI expands in India
  Thanks to the financial support you have provided, CCI-India is finally growing. Roxana Robin, CCI’s Executive Director, will be leaving in early November to oversee improvements to the Rainbow Centre. For 4 months, she will be supervising the expansion work on the existing home and the construction of a new building—the goal is to create enough room for 60 children. Check back this winter for more news!
• 26 septembre, 2005
  Awareness-raising conferences in the United-States
  This fall, Roxana Robin began a series of conferences in the U.S. As in Canada, the goal is to raise everyone’s awareness concerning the horrors of this growing child trafficking.
• 26 septembre, 2005
  New partners
  We have some new sponsors supporting us: Terre sans frontiers [World without borders], Oxfam Québec and the Endeavours of Cardinal Léger.
• 26 septembre, 2005
  Seven new schoolchildren arrive at the Rainbow Centre
  This year, the Rainbow Centre has welcomed 7 new children, all from villages devastated last winter by the tsunami. These children previously worked as slaves in coconut factories, child fishermen or domestic labourers.
  
• 26 septembre, 2005
  Incorporation in India
  Finally!! CCI is now officially incorporated in India—CCI-India in administrative terms.
  
• September 21, 2006
  Interview with Roxana Robin on Radio Boomer AM 1570
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• September 13, 2006
  CIC welcomes new volunteers
  The CCI team is happy to welcome four new enthusiastic and hard-working volunteers : Hélène Masson, Pierre-Yves Tournier, Luz Garcia and Émilie Tétrault. Our team is now stronger and in a better position to carry out our projects : in the short term, our benefit performance in October, and--in the longer term--the opening of a third rehabilitation centre. We are always looking for volunteers with graphics, office, journalism and other skills.
• January 31, 2006
  Shared moments
  Read this message from Roxana Robin: I recently felt a little useless in Vizianagaram, even though I, like everyone else, was swamped with work. I felt somewhat removed from the cause I was supporting; perhaps I was too involved in the paperwork...   Then, like a miracle, my motivation returned...
  
• July 30, 2005
  Interview with Roxana Robin (founder and Executive Director of CCI) by Radio-Canada International during its program Emergence.
  
• December 2004
  Tsunami - Decembre 2004 
  • CCI emergency operations, with the help of ARDAR
    Report to Doner's - Tsunami
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  • Press release
    Act now to stop the rise in bonded slavery.
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• May 2004
  Fair-trade Supper at the Chuchai restaurant
  CCI, in collaboration with Oxfam-Quebec, organized a chat-as-you-eat event called “Sup fair-trade and combat exploitation” on Wednesday, May 26, 2004, at 6:30 p.m., at the Chuchai restaurant, 4088 St. Denis St. in Montreal.
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Press Release

• November 23 2006
  Interview with Roxana Robin on Radio-Canad - la première chaîne with Michel Desautels
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• October , 2006
  Interview with Roxana Robin on 98.5 FM with Richard Martineau – October 7, 2006
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• 6 octobre 2006
  
  Interview with Roxana Robin on Radio-Canada 1 with Christiane Charette – October 6, 2006
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• September 21, 2006
  Interview with Roxana Robin on Radio Boomer AM 1570
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• September 13, 2006
  CIC welcomes new volunteers
  The CCI team is happy to welcome four new enthusiastic and hard-working volunteers : Hélène Masson, Pierre-Yves Tournier, Luz Garcia and Émilie Tétrault. Our team is now stronger and in a better position to carry out our projects : in the short term, our benefit performance in October, and--in the longer term--the opening of a third rehabilitation centre. We are always looking for volunteers with graphics, office, journalism and other skills.

• January 31, 2006
  Shared moments
  Read this message from Roxana Robin: I recently felt a little useless in Vizianagaram, even though I, like everyone else, was swamped with work. I felt somewhat removed from the cause I was supporting; perhaps I was too involved in the paperwork...   Then, like a miracle, my motivation returned...