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Press release Children's Homes St. Maarten
03-12-2008

AMFO gives 300.000 to children’s homes in Sint Maarten

Willemstad – Stichting Antilliaanse Mede Financierings Organisatie (AMFO) closed a series of donations last Wednesday, by signing three funding agreements on Sint Maarten. After a total of seven children’s homes on Curaçao and Bonaire received checks, now three children’s homes on Sint Maarten were next. The total amount for Sint Maarten was of 315.448 guilders. This money was made available as a result of a proposition made in the Dutch Parliament. Based hereon, AMFO’s donor, the Dutch Government, could transfer an extra amount of half a million euros, designated to finance children’s homes on Curaçao, Bonaire and Sint Maarten. Currently there are no children’s homes in Saba and Sint Eustatius.

Division key

The half million was divided based on a division key, determined on account of the results of a needs survey. Following is an overview of the three children’s homes on Sint Maarten, the number of children that are taken in in these homes and the respective amounts received:

Island	Children’s homes	Number of children	Amount in ANG
SXM	Cristal Home	14	88,325
	I Can Foundation	26	164,033
	Ujima Foundation	10	63,090
Total		50	315,448

Development

AMFO stands for sustainable social development. In order to reach this objective the foundation annually receives a maximum of 9 million euros of its donor, with which NGO-projects are funded. One of AMFO’s most important target groups is the youth, and with the funding of the children’s homes, AMFO gives an impulse to the living circumstances of some of the most sensitive youth of Sint Maarten.

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The funds donated by AMFO are designated to reach the most youngsters in the most critical situations in Sint Maarten.

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Happy board members of I Can Foundation receiving the ‘big’ check.

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
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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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