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Fundashon Nos Grandinan

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Aging Social Development: Aging
Geographic scope:	International
Country of activity:	Netherlands
Millennium Development Goals:	Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Promote gender equality and empower women
Mission statement:	"OUR ELDERLY FOUNDATION" MISSION STATEMENT. We, "Our Elderly Foundation", are a national recognized organization, operating solely on a non-profit basis, with a tax exempt status, for the well-being of senior citizens of the Curaçao society. We have the commitment to ensure senior citizens the rights and benefits to lead an effective peaceful life after retirement age in all freedom in a peaceful Curaçao, while contributing with their experience and wisdom to the development of the society, making themselves useful to the benefit of all. We try to inform and educate the society at large through radio, television and publications about the opportunities providing to senior citizens enabling them to function as active members in the development process of Curaçao. We endeavor to provide the society with the knowledge and attitude to accept senior citizens as equal society members, in order to live in complete harmony with them as a special group, recognizing their valuable contribution in many families and in the society. We are working to their benefit with other institutions which are also providing care to old aged persons. We try to be a center which carries out social, cultural and humanitarian actions for the integration of senior citizens as equal society members, while they are enjoying respect of the whole society. We are committing ourselves to the spirit of inclusion and collaboration to help the neediest senior citizens in all their needs and in so doing, promoting peace and social justice in our society. Standing together with the Curaçao population as a people of hope, we seek to integrate senior citizens as an active group while giving them the place they deserve in a changing society which is moving forward. Adopted by the Society Curaçao, August 20th, 2003
Year established:	2003
Year of registration:	2003
Organizational structure:	1. The name of the Foundation is “Fundashon Nos Grandinan” (Foundation Our Elders”. (hereinafter referred to as the Foundation.------------------------------------- 2. Its seat is in Curaçao.------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. The Foundation is established for undetermined duration.------------------------------ -----------------------------------------------PURPOSE----------------------------------------------- Article 2 The purpose of the Foundation is to provide the Curaçao population with information and education about the normative values of those, who abandon the regular labor process after they have reached retirement age and have made themselves useful to the benefit of their society.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Normative value means the positive norms which are consequence of someone’s behavior in society by which his/her ideal and ideological conception and objectives have been accepted by that society.------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Foundation tries to achieve its purpose through the:---------------------------------------- a. development of television and radio programs;------------------------------------------ b. provision of written articles and other publications;------------------------------------- c. organisation of visits to institutions, which are taking care of senior citizens in the society as well as to individuals;------------------------------------------------------------ d. realization of projects for oue elderly in the society;------------------------------------ e. the annual conmemoration of the day of retired people on July twenty fifth and the “Day of the Old Aged Persons” on October first;------------------------------------ f. the annual conmemoration, organisation, meeting and celebration of centenarians who have reached one hundred years (100+) and senior centenarians (110+) living in the society;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- g. the coordination of the World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on June fifteenth;------ h. the coordination of the celebration of the annual “Grandparents’ Day” on the second Sunday of September in conformity with the decree of the Insular Government of Curaçao, as is proclaimed on August thirthy-first, 2007;------------ i. the promotion of free public transportation for our elderly who have reached sixty years of age.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The persons concerned are interviewed on their views and way of thinking, their acts and applied experience to achieve their goal in the society and for as much as possible, through the presentation of visual images on their followed life perspective.-----------------
Number and type of members:	3 Members, namely the President, Secretary and Treasurer: 1. Mrs. GESELLE VICENTA ROSARIA – COFFI, producer, living at 21 Almadinastraat, Curaçao. She declared to be born in Curaçao, on September 27th, 1974;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Mr. GILBERTO MELANIO COFFI, legal advisor, living at 21 Almadinastraat, Curaçao. He declared to be born in Curaçao on October 22nd,1936;------------------ 3. Mr. EDSEL ARTHUR JESURUN, consultant, living at 94 Nieuwpoort, Curaçao. He declared to be born in Curaçao on October 26th, 1930.------------------------------
Affiliation with NGO networks:	INPEA (International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse)
Funding structure:	Donations and grants from domestic sources

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