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TRACHOMA PROJECT: Trachoma is the largest preventable cause of blindness with the rate of infection in a typical village being as high as 45%. We have a program where we examine the children, provide medication where necessary, provide education as to good hygene and also clean water. THE CHISHAWASHA ORPHANAGE PROJECT: This orphanage is presently the home for 40 children and we are providing some buildings and covering some of their operating costs. THE ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL PROJECT: We look after the cost of 100 operations each year and in 2006 we built a residence and we look after all of its annual expenses. CATARACT PROJECT: We continue to help with the children's cataract operations. COMMUNITY SCHOOL PROJECT: We are building two much needed small schools in the very remote Gwembe Valley in Zambia. CHISANGA HEALTH POST PROJECT: Also in the Gwembe valley we are building a health post in an area that is the home to over 4,500 Tonga.

Goals of the Creston Kootenay Foundation; i. Enhance the welfare, health, safety and education of residents; ii. Preserve and protect our enviroment; iii. Advance the arts, culture and recreation in our community. Mandate of the Creston Kootenay Foundation; The Foundation receives and maintains a fund or funds and applies all or part of the principal and income there from, to charitable non profit organizations that are providing services to communities and residents in the Foundation's area of responsibility.

PACE Society consists of active and inactive sex workers, community leaders and professionals that work collaboratively to create opportunities for individuals involved in survival sex work to make free choices pertaining to their lives. In light of the changing social, legal and economic conditions in which sex work takes place, PACE Society makes the distinction between sex work (formerly prostitution) and survival sex work. Survival sex work is defined as the lack of opportunity to consistently exercise the right to refuse sex work. We work to increase the health, safety and rights of refusal for individuals involved in survival sex work.

In this remote, water-access only archipelago, which lacks many commercial and government services, the Surge Narrows Communnity Association often acts as a facilitator and initiator of projects that improve the comfort,happiness, health and safety of the community. It is a point of contact for government agencies and a disseminator of information. Despite it's status as the only registered organisation in the area, SNCA resists the imposition of any kind of governmental role, preferring to enable individuals to take responsibility for the well being and harmony of the community. By providing buildings for all kinds of activities and by fundraising to support community generated projects, SNCA gives vital support to the islands' people.