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 Board of Directors
 In Canada
Roxana Robin : General Director
Roxana Robin is the founder and general director of Children's Care International. After volunteering at an orphanage in India, she realized the importance of fighting for children's rights and chose to dedicate her life to this cause. It was after her return to Canada that she founded CCI in 2000.
Roxana Robin holds a certificate in psychosocial intervention and has worked in the field of early childhood education for several years. She is currently working towards a degree in Andragogy. She has spoken at conferences for Amnesty International and volunteered in international cooperation. In 2006 Roxana Robin was awarded the Peace Medal by the YMCA of Greater Montreal as well as the Medal of Merit of the Order of the Knights of Saint Catherine of Sinai for her involvement in the fight against the exploitation of children.
Christine Durocher : President
Christine Durocher is so deeply committed, her entire existence and work revolve around the child. She is the Chair of CCI’s Board of Directors, and has been involved with this organisation since its inauguration. Year after year, Christine goes off to Vizianagaram in India to share the daily life of children and parents that are cared for by CCI. She spreads her deep love for children around Montreal as well, in the very middle of the Saint-Laurent area, as Managing Director of the Tchou-Tchou Daycare Centre, a hub of activity overflowing with happiness. In fact, this daycare centre is well known for the quality of its services and its educational leadership. In 2010, the Tchou-Tchou Daycare Centre joined forces with Dr. Gilles Julien, a well-known community paediatrician, in inaugurating a centre for community paediatrics. This is all the more important because there is a shortage of community resources for families, in that area, plus some 44% of children under 5 years old survive under the poverty level. This is also one of Montreal’s neighbourhoods where children are more at risk of exhibiting slowness in development at the time they enter school. In addition to working in the education sector for the past 15 years, Christine is also the author of a guide: Le Montréal des enfants (A child’s Montreal), published by Editions Stanké. She dreams of a world where all children are able to enjoy their childhood.
Serge Lusignan : Project Manager
For over 22 years, Serge Lusignan has been the owner and director of Orient Express Canada, a tour-operator specialized in Southern Asia, more specifically in India, where he lived and studied various oriental philosophies. Mr. Lusignan teaches yoga, meditation and martial arts and also manage the holistic centre Ambrosia. Mr. Lusignan is also a stress management therapist and speaker. He has served on various committees as Director for the Montreal-Concordia Sports Association, Vice-president of the Arbitration Committee of the WTF Taekwondo Association of Canada, President of the Montreal-Concordia Taekwondo Association, and Director for the Quebec Taekwondo Association.
During his many trips to India, Serge Lusignan was deeply affected by the suffering he witnessed in these victims of child slavery. As such, he has dedicated his time to helping these children find freedom and discover the joy of playing.
Bernard Beauchamp : Vice-President and Treasurer
Bernard Beauchamp is president of Tours Chanteclerc; a tour-operator specialized in organizing travel itineraries since 1970. He is a graduate of the École Supérieure des Transports in Paris, former president of the Association of Travel Agents of Quebec, and current president and founder of the Quebec Tour Operators Association. Father of three daughters, Bernard Beauchamp is personally interested in the fate of children around the world, particularly underprivileged children.
Philippe Legault : Secretary
Philippe Legault has been Communications Project Manager at Terre Sans Frontières since 1999. He was trained as a journalist, a career he pursued for several years before turning his efforts to international aid. He lived through many interesting experiences as aid representative in Mali, Nicaragua and Guatemala.
He has visited some thirty countries, and maintains that “... children are the same everywhere on this planet. They have the same bursts of laughter, the same spontaneity, the same light in their eyes. And so, they should enjoy the same rights everywhere.
Hélène Vanier : Member of the board
Hélène Vanier holds a Master’s in Art History, and has worked to promote arts and culture for over twenty-five years. In fact she managed a film festival in Estrie, and presently runs an exhibition centre on Montreal’s South Shore. In 1999, she spent some time in Nepal where she stayed in an orphanage run by Child Haven International. She repeated the experience in Bangladesh in 2007. Those few months spent in the company of children, and her fortuitous meeting with Bonnie and Fred Cappuccino, Founders of Child Haven, convinced her that it was urgent that she take action and commit herself to children’s causes. In this vein, she has for the past ten years organised fundraising activities for Child Haven and CCI, and wishes to continue taking concrete steps to see that children who are dispossessed or victims of exploitation gain access to education.
Mélanie Jodoin : Member of the board
A Communications graduate of the Université de Montreal, Mélanie Jodoin presently works as Coordinator in the Communications Department of Montréal International, an institution born out of a public-private partnership that has as mission to contribute to the economic development of the metropolitan region of Montreal. Mélanie Jodoin joined CCI in 2006 first as a volunteer, then as a staff member and now as a member of the Board. She makes a significant contribution to the organization with her valuable advice in the field of communications and her deep desire to protect and raise the children.
Cindy Médina-Labrecque : Member of the board
Cindy Medina-Labrecque earned a bachelor’s degree in Communications/Human Relations. She worked as a volunteer for CCI for three years before occupying the position of Executive Director ad interim in 2007-08. She has also travelled in different developing countries, notably in India and Cameroon, where she has met a lot of children who show ingenuity, courage and determination in their everyday life to insure their own or their families’ survival. She worked for several years as a social worker with troubled and homeless youth in a shelter managed by Auberge du coeur. At one point, she was Coordinator for Action Surveillance Verdun, a non-profit organization focussing on security in urban areas. She is currently a spiritual and community engagement adviser at the Commission Scolaire des Patriotes. With her work she assists the youngsters and adults at school in developing their personality, their sense of self and their vision of the world. She promotes and supports individual contributions to the community life which is based on the recognition of the value and dignity of the people and is oriented towards the building of a harmonious and united society.
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