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Press release Foodbaskets for Curacao
25-11-2007

Curaçao

88,000 guilders for montlhy food baskets for 250 households
Food bank receives first grant of the restyled AMFO

The "Food Bank" project is the first project of an NGO to receive a grant from the Antillean Co-financing Organization (AMFO) following the new procedures.

With the grant of 88,000 guilders, 250 underprivileged households in Curaçao will get a food basket monthly. The financing agreement was signed on November 21 by Egbert Vos, president of the Foundation "Hulp aan Curaçao" and by Mr. Stanley Betrian, director of AMFO. The project runs till the end of December 2008.

This makes Stichting Hulp aan Curaçao the first organization to receive funding based on the new procedures of AMFO. The organization was founded in 1977 and regularly hands out food to deprived households, fruit for afterschool care in underprivileged neighborhoods and giftbaskets for the poor with Christmas.

The funding agency, that made a new start in May of this year, also announced that on short term the standard application form will be changed here and there. The new application form wil then be available on the website of AMFO (www.samfo.org) for downloading. Furthermore, this website will be completely transformed by the end of the year.

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A serious moment: Egbert Vos, president of ‘Stichting Hulp aan Curaçao’ (l) and AMFO director Stanley Betrian, sign the first AMFO financing agreement derived from the new procedures.

Relocation AMFO office St. Maarten
27-11-2009

Relocation AMFO office St. Maarten

Not only the AMFO office in Bonaire found another location this year, also the AMFO office in St. Maarten is relocated. After six years the location on Pondfill above Blue Point was exchanged for a unit in the Brooks Tower, ahead of town. Telephone and fax number remain the same.

Directors AMFO and USONA pay visit to Prime Minister
02-11-2009

Recenlty, Reginaldo Doran, director of USONA and Reinoudt Karsdorp, director of AMFO, paid a visit to the Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles, mrs. Emily de Jongh Elhage.

Among other they discussed the future of USONA and AMFO after 2012, since the new countries Curacao and Sint Maarten will then have to take up more responsibility towards these funding agencies. In relation to this, also more cooperation between USONA and AMFO were discussed.

Another item during this meeting was the support of USONA and AMFO for the integral neighborhood approach currently underway in Curacao. Additionaly, also the opportunities of this approach for St. Maarten have been discussed.

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