CACTES (Caring About Communities Together to Eliminate Struggles)

Qui sommes-nous

CACTES stands for Caring About Communities Together to Eliminate Struggles. We are a not-for-profit organization founded in 2013 and based in Vancouver, Canada, working for social equality both locally and internationally.

On the global scale, we direct our efforts in combating poverty through our three pillars: health, education and the economy. In the Greater Vancouver region, we run many programs to help those living below the poverty line as well as other estranged groups.
Our symbol, the cactus, is a direct representation of bravery and endurance through hard times. Together, we can eliminate the feelings of despair and instead, replace them with hope for a brighter future.

Our Mission
To encourage members of the community to advocate and innovate for solutions that can abridge societal differences, advance economy, and improve health and education quality.

Projects
Local Projects
• Vancouver Case Study: To understand the existing social gaps in the local community; To develop strategies to reduce such gaps in future generations.
• Cyber Seniors: To reduce social gaps in the local community; To connect two distinct generations.
• Homeless Shelter Care Packages: To abridge social differences; To redistributing community wealth by delivering care packages.
• Children’s Camps: To spread awareness for our international causes; To inspire the younger generation to demand for change.
Global Projects:
• Water Project in Nepal: An accessible gravity-fed water system was completed in June 2014 with a water reservoir, a network of underground pipes, and five taps around the community named Sadaguan. CACTES partnered with Tamakoshi Sewa Samiti to create a water irrigation system in Manthali, which is in the town in Ramechhap, Nepal. The irrigation system was built to provide farmers and their families easier access to water.
• Water Project in China: We completed a purification project in a remote village, named Yongxing village, near San Du, Gui Zhou, China.
• Health Project: In order to help with early detection and treatment of Diabetes, CACTES has fundraised a total of 00 and bought a HBA1C (diabetes testing machine) for the Tamakoshi Co-operative Hospital in the Manthali Municipality, Ward No. 2, Ramachhap, Nepal.
• Education Project: CACTES is partnering up with BESO Foundation to sponsor girls who are struggling to fulfill her dreams. CACTES is currently sponsoring two girls in Uganda to get quality education, meals at school, school uniforms/shoes and school supplies such as books and writing utensils.
• Economic Empowerment Project: CACTES is partnering up with BESO Foundation to start a microfinancing program in the Wanteete village of Uganda. We have put 00 as a starting-fund investment towards agricultural improvement in the village.
• Economic Empowerment Project: We have initiated two projects with Reach the Youth. 66 youths, aged 14-24, were selected from the Mbarara district in south-western Uganda to engage in vocational training. Vocational training equips unskilled youths to gain self-employment skills to become successful artisans, tailors, hairdressers, bakers, carpenters and much more. Participating youth were able to select goat farming, pig farming or tailoring as their choice of vocational training.
• Water Project in Sri Lanka: CACTES Association has partnered with Our Society Canada on our first school-based water project- the Sri Lanka Clean Water Project. The Sri Lanka Clean Water Project consisted of a dug well as access to clean and safe drinking water for the school of Sivasakthi Vidyalayam. This school is located in the eastern Sri Lankan village of Upooral in the Trincomalee district.

Jill Xu is the Co-Chair/Treasurer of CACTES (Caring About Communities Together to Eliminate Struggles).

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