Salsa Fundraising Night for Isa Mundo

Isa Mundo Foundation will be doing its first fundraising in Vancouver, BC.  We are grateful for Vancouver Latin Fever choosing us to donate all funds raised for their event on June 20, 2012.

"UNITED WE DANCE" will be a salsa/dance fundraiser to help complete our project in Peru where we are planning to build our first Isa Mundo Education Centre in the country.

We invite everyone to come and enjoy the event while contributing to a worthy cause.

Life Skills Program

Isa Mundo Foundation has been working in partnership with various schools, orphanages an child centred facilities since 2006. The goal has always been to provide basic tools and support to ensure that children and youth have the opportunities to improve their current situation.

We were approached this year to work in partnership to develop a Life Skills Program that we hope can be an addition to school curriculums, enhance sport and recreational programs and can be access by volunteers in various child centred facilities. Isa Mundo is committed to work with experts and practioners and have started the first phase of research in developing the program.

Stay tuned!

Isa Mundo at PNW-SETAC Conference

This past month the Pacific Northwest Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (PNW-SETAC) held their annual chapter meeting here in Vancouver.  This was an excellent opportunity to learn about the scientists conducting research and working towards solving environmental problems here on the west coast of Canada and abroad.  Several man-made pollutants (e.g. fire retardants, pesticides, etc.) were highlighted as particularly troublesome due to their prevalence in water, air and soil as well as in wildlife. 

The number of man-made chemicals is upwards of 500,000 with many frequently detected in our environment, and for the majority of these chemicals there is a high degree of uncertainty regarding their individual and combined effects on the health of humans and wildlife.  We are fighting an incredibly steep uphill battle in this regard.   It is apparent that we as a society need to take this issue seriously and urge our governments to do the same.  Between loss of habitat and widespread pollution our wildlife and our human lives depend on becoming better environmental stewards of this planet, and we at Isa Mundo aim to be part of the solution not the problem.  For more information and to see abstracts from the 2012 PNW-SETAC regional chapter meeting, please visit their website (www.pnw-setac.org).

Cinema for a Cure

Isa Mundo Foundation will be supporting an event to raise funds and awareness for Cystic Fibrosis (CF). Although the issue does not fit within our one of three themes, we wanted to begin supporting local projects and events in our communities in 2012.

CF is the most common, fatal genetic disease affecting Canadian children and young adults. This multi-organ disease affects one in every 25 people in Canada - well over one million Canadians. Cinema for a Cure will have a double-feature film that will be shown on May 5th, 2012, at Denman Cinema in Vancouver’s West End. All proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to Cystic Fibrosis Canada.

To donate and to buy tickets to this event, please visit their website at cinemaforacure.com. We are proud to sponsor this event and many other local events in the future.

Sharing Success Forum

In the past few years, we have met many passionate people and organizations who have completed life changing projects in both local and global communities. Each of them bring different stories of challenges and success that have provided us with valuable tools and knowledge that have helped to complete our own projects.

In the past few months, we have been in discussion with other organizations on having a gathering that would take place weekly/monthly and allow us to bring together new ideas and share our network with each other.

This month, we developed an informal Sharing Success Forum that takes place weekly at a local coffee shop in Vancouver and attended by a few people with experience in project management locally and internationally. We would like this forum to expand into a larger and more formal setting in the coming years. It is our hope that we can continue to discuss how to turn new ideas into concrete projects through networking and partnerships.

We invite others to join us, the more the better!

Isa Mundo Photobook

Since the initial visit to Mexico in 2005 and the official launch of the Isa Mundo Foundation in 2006 - our small team and past volunteers have visited some of the most beautiful places in the world. During these travels, we experienced various cultures, enjoyed diversed landscapes, tasted local cuisines and met happy, friendly and passionate people.

During these travels, we were also exposed to the hardship that many children, families and communities face everyday in the developing world. Our site visits to these communities are what motivate us to find ways to help and provide support to the best of our abilities.

Our first Photobook captures the first 6 years of our work and shows cultures, landscapes, communities, organizations and our all projects both past and present. With the continued help of our funders, supporters and volunteers, we hope to complete Volume 2 in 2017.

For those who want copies of the Isa Mundo Photobook, please contact info@isamundo.org.

Support a Teacher

Isa Mundo Foundation is committed to supporting basic primary education in communities by providing school supplies, technological tools and educational books. In addition to these crucial resources, one of of the most important needs in communities, that are sometimes overlooked, are funds to pay teachers.

We are asking all our supporters to donate to Isa Mundo to fund the full-time or part-time salaries of teachers. Teachers in communities we work with are passionate about their work and they serve as tutors, mentors, and role models. Despite the low pay and long hours, they remain dedicated to find new programs and activities to motivate students to reach their full potential.

Please click on the DONATE link on our website and Support a Teacher today.