Canadian Foundation For Development And Empowerment

About

The Canadian Foundation for Development and Empowerment (CFDE) strives to create immediate, long-lasting changes by assisting children, youth, and young adults in operating at their highest potential.
The CFDE endeavors to free youth from social and financial barriers by providing school materials, information on community resources, counselling, and other personal support services in order to help those in need. Along with supporting students as they continue education, we also assist young people who have discontinued their schooling. We aim to help students reintroduce themselves into school or provide them with resources to explore and begin vocational training.
CFDE is working on projects that focus on STEM/ STEAM (Science, Technology, Mathematics, Engineering). With advancements throughout the world moving at a fast pace, STEM fields are becoming increasingly crucial. Our projects strive to get young people, especially young women, Indigenous youth, and youth who have discontinued schooling, interested in these subjects. Participation in STEM/ STEAM will ensure their educational journey has many options that can lead to careers in fields relevant to the world's ongoing developments.
At CFDE we are working on ways to get Youth Engagement in the ARTS. Many of us enjoy the Arts – music, theater, paintings, and other visual arts. They can make our world seem more beautiful and bring us joy and new perspective. But did you know that the Arts can have a big impact on youth development? Art, social change, and young people have always walked together. Engaging youth in the ARTS can promote positive, powerful social change in countless art forms, including dance, music, graffiti art, and more. Young people can change the world in a lot of ways through the Arts.
Working together to co-create artistic works can allow young people and adults to work across age barriers and divisions to create unity, community, and empowerment for everyone involved. Youth/adult partnerships can empower everyone to make and share what’s in their hearts and on their minds, especially when they’re focused on the Arts.