Pays basic school costs for children and youth whose families could not otherwise afford to send them to school.

provides a daily hot meal to children so they are ready to learn. This may be their only meal of the day.

pays university students to tutor high school students from their own social class. This helps them cover their own education costs and keeps them within the academic community.

replaces worn or “lost” books and adds new books to libraries in rural communities.

engages the services of speech and sign language therapists to work with children who have hearing loss.

provides mentoring, counselling, education, transportation, medical and accommodation costs for capable young women from rural communities so they can create new options for their lives.

The idea for establishing CANFRO was conceived by a group of not-so-crazy Canucks who have a passion for helping impoverished people in Oaxaca help themselves.

The State of Oaxaca (pronounced wah-HAH-ka) is noted both for its natural beauty and for its poverty. Its diverse indigenous peoples live in small villages throughout the mountains and valleys in the countryside as well as in the capital city, also called Oaxaca.