Groupe D'Action Feminin Francophone De L'Ontario (gaffo) Inc.

GAFFO is an apprenticeship and learning centre. It is a francophone women's free drop-in centre that provides pre-employment programs in arts and crafts instruction such as sewing knitting pottery training craft workshops as well as cultural adjustment and transition while partnering with francophone organizations. GAFFO promotes import/export developments with groups in America Africa Mexico Martinique and others exchanges with other French speaking countries and English for artisanal and cultural development. Program 1 'Kchi Ukubanbisana: La Grande Collaboration' is a collaborative art project with a group of Atikamekw artisans from Manawan. 5 Teams of GAFFO and Manawan artists will collaborate to create traditional Ribbon Skirts and collard that combine teachings and symbols from both African and Atikamekw traditions. The Projecty is the second Collaborative Project with Frist Nations groups. Program 2 Beaded Dreams working with the Vision Quest Project Giidwin group a collaborative of Indigenous artists GAFFO hosted beading workshops to teach Seniors and youth how to do traditional beading from the African tradition. Program 3 Jeunes Auteurs Africains Francophones (JAAF) : This summer program aims to promote and preserve French literacy among African Francophone youth (ages 13-27) in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) through literature and writing workshops. These workshops will enhance participants' prose and poetry skills preparing them for a short story and poetry competition. Winners will have the opportunity to be published in the African Francophone newspaper Journal Caanora. Program 4 Les Echos de la scene Africaine is a 3 year theatrical program which will develop an amateur acting group that will perform a play a year selected from relevant African Francophone playwrights. The goal of this project is to make a meaningful contribution to the French theatre scene in the GTA and to promote African Francophone culture. Program 5 Social Justice