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By telephone
Locally: 514 257-8711
Toll-free: 1 888 234-8533
For emergency appeals: 1 888 664-DEVP (ou 3387) |
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By mail
Please print and return this form to the following address:
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Development and Peace
1425 René Lévesque Blvd. West, 3rd floor
Montreal, (Quebec)
H3G 1T7 |
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- Forty years of solid development experience and still looking to innovate.
- The official Canadian Catholic Church organization for international solidarity created by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1967.
- A nationwide democratic bilingual movement with 13,000 members dedicated to educating the Canadian public about international development and fundraising to support the organization's work with partners in the Global South.
- Support over 250 projects in 28 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
- An "empowerment" approach to assisting the people of the Global South, with impressive results through well selected and consistent programming and small financial contributions.
- A development strategy based on partnership and dialogue promoting a positive image of people in the Global South.
- A comprehensive development strategy based on partnership, peacebuilding and conflict resolutions, to assist people and communities of all faiths to overcome the challenges of poverty and war.
- Active in countries like Sierra Leone, East Timor, Colombia, Burundi and Brazil where very few other Canadian organizations are involved.
- An active member of international and Canadian non-governmental development alliances like Caritas Internationalis (Rome), CIDSE - International Cooperation for Development and Economic Solidarity (Brussels), CCIC - the Canadian Council for International Cooperation (Ottawa), to AQOCI - the Quebec Association of International Development Organizations (Montreal), to whose codes of conduct it adheres.
- About 50% of its budget is from Canadians coast-to-coast and more than 15% of it is devoted to educating the Canadian public on the causes of underdevelopment.
- Low-cost and efficient program management with annual administrative overhead of roughly 10-13%.
- Recognized by the Revenue Canada as a charitable organization for the last forty years, with the power to issue tax receipts to donors requiring it.
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