Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year !!!!

FROM the President :

The management and employees of ANCOP INTERNATIONAL (Canada) Inc wishes to extend the season greetings and felicitations to all donors, partners, and volunteers in Ottawa,  Vancouver, Victoria, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Fort McMurray,  Lethbridge, Greater Toronto, and Montreal.  Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all !

It has been a trying year for ANCOP's work with the poor, but because of you all and the love we share together in our work to provide opportunities to underprivileged children and homes for the poorest of the poor, we were able to pool resources to continue vigorously the work we have started.  And for sure, it will continue into 2010 with your full support.

On the management part, we have :

1.  Launched aggressive plans to realign the two major programs we have, the Child Sponsorship Program  and the Shelter Program, as well as in the areas of support, Organization, Policy and Communications.   We have plans to more than double the number of children being supported and raise up more homes in focused needy areas, both in partnership with the existing Gawad Kalinga Community Developemnt Foundation and the new and revitalized CFC Ancop Tekton group in the Philippines.  

2.  We are launching a community participative web portal site where you as our valuable partners in the mission can participate and be informed of the status of our work.    It will include the community and children sections where we expect ground project supervisors to input information, pictures, beneficiary information and progress of the work in their particular communities.  The Children pages will include the information of the progress and pertinent data about the child you are sponsoring.  It will also include a gallery of available children for sponsorship.

3.  Events and news in Ancop areas require inputs into the portal blogs and pages that will necessitate volunteer heralds from all Canadian areas and groups so that information on the work we are doing can be shared with those closely and eagerly awaiting for the unfolding of events planned to support our cause.

The community portal website based will officially be launched on January 1, 2010 by the website and communication team of Sonny Bautista and Paolo Borromeo, the tandem who successfully managed the GK Walk fundraising and donation website that raised thousands of donation dollars for the past two years of web operation, and have raised the levels of awareness in USA and Canada and parts of the world about our work with the poor.

We shall need volunteer authors and editors from all ANCOP areas, CFC groups, donor partners and from the ground projects in the Philippines to work with Richard Te, ANCOP Canada's Chief Web Portal Editor (also the Ancop Canada Marketing Director and member of the Execom) to produce contents for our information pages.    

We shall also need volunteer graphic, image and visual art/audio/video dabblers/designers to help in the processing of thousands of images, audio and video recordings from our projects to work with Sonny and Paolo for visual, audio and video content of our web portals.   These are mostly work at home projects and if you can spare a few hours a week, email your contact information (name, phone number,  email address, and area of volunteer interest) to sbautista@ancop.ca (Sonny Bautista, HR and Communications). Live website and home video training materials will be provided to those who will participate in the upbuilding of the community website. 

I will also update you on items of interest in my own section in the website which our team will diligently update.

With your help, the outlook for the future for the downtrodden and underprivileged looks promising and bright.

Together with all the members of the Board, the Ancop Canada Management and Execom team and our employees and their families, and with my wife, Digna and our family, we wish you the best for the season and look forward to working more with you in the years to come to restore dignity to the downtrodden and poorest of the poor.

Temi S. Pangilinan
President