what you can do

Thank you very much for your interest in volunteering to help the African Canadian Continuing Education Society (ACCES). We need your help. It is good to know that you believe in the work we are doing and in the way we are going about it.

All of us - donors, members of the Society and members of the Board, are volunteers. We are needed for various kinds and amounts of work. Some of the tasks require a great deal of time, some require a special kind of expertise, and some require steady, patient devotion.

At present, ACCES has people in place to accomplish the major tasks of running the Society; that is, the bookkeeping, the publications, the secretarial work. As time goes on, other volunteers may be needed to help with this work. For now, though, volunteers are sorely needed to do the most important work of all - to raise money. That is what we hope you will help us do.

This handbook is meant to help you get started. It will give you some information that you will need and it will give you some ideas that you may want to use. We believe that the best ideas will be your own or at least your own way of adapting the ones we suggest. We want to be sure that we never underestimate your ability or your ingenuity and that we make the very best use of your talents. We need your help.

Beth Scott
President

The Mission of ACCES is to help children and youth in Africa obtain the skills and education needed to benefit themselves and their society.

ACCES was incorporated in 1993 to provide scholarships for post-secondary students in the Kakamega District of Kenya.

Additional programs including a non-formal primary education centers, income generation, agricultural training and an HIV/AIDS awareness program have since been implemented as well.

ACCES can issue an official receipt for income tax purposes #13983 1770 RR0001.

ACCES has a 16 year record of successful foreign development.

100% of the money donated for programs is spent on those programs

Where will you begin?

ACCES began with George and Beth Scott importuning their friends and relatives. Who else? After while, people whom they had never heard of approached them. THAT was time for CELEBRATION!

It seems almost essential to find a group of people that will listen to you and be willing to learn about ACCES and eventually work with you to support the Society. So here is one place to begin: