The Chilean American Foundation (CAF) is a non-profit, non-political, and autonomous organization chartered in Washington, D.C. in 1990 to provide financial support for small social projects in Chile. The Internal Revenue Service recognizes it as a tax deductible organization.

Its members are Chileans and friends of Chile who reside in the United States, and its staff is composed of volunteers within the Chilean community in the Washington DC metropolitan area. Both the Embassy of Chile in the United States and the Permanent Mission of Chile to the Organization of American States (OAS) lend CAF their support.

The recipients of CAF's yearly donations are small institutions that provide education, healthcare, vocational training, or welfare to the most disadvantaged children and youngsters in Chile. Our aim is to make a small difference in their lives, to help them better themselves, and to keep them out of harm's way.


From the President's Desk - June 2008
This month I wish to give a special thanks to each of you, members and donors of the Foundation, for your generosity, perseverance and loyalty to the neediest children in Chile; some of you for more than fifteen years.

Without your contributions, the work of the Foundation would not be recognized and appreciated as it is by community organizations in Chile as well as by the parents whose children benefit from a healthy and constructive attention throughout the year.

Did you know that in the past ten years you have benefited almost 4,200 children at social risk in Chile?!

If you add to this number the members of the families of these children--who have also benefited from seeing their children enjoy a healthier social life and recognize their own talents and feel loved and welcomed through the programs we support--then you can imagine how wide a group of people your work and contributions have benefited.

I feel very proud to share these figures with you and congratulate you and trust that you will continue contributing to the work of our Foundation!

For this same reason, I would like to invite you to approach your friends who still are not members and share with them these figures and the joyful faces of the children (show them their photos on our website -- www.chileusfoundation.org) to inspire them to support this worthy cause and become members of the Foundation.

Let us make it a goal to increase the active membership of our Foundation so we can increase the number of children we are able to help in Chile!

M. Teresa Soto-Aguilar
President

The Foundation needs your help!
We are looking for volunteers to help out at all our upcoming events. We also need energetic and creative talents to join the working commitees. If you are interested, please contact chileanamericanfoundation@hotmail.com


The Chilean-American Foundation is listed in this website that thousands of individual and enterprise donors visit in the U.S. to place their charity donations.

To see more photos from our projects please visit: www.flickr.com/photos/chileusfoundation/