Press Coverage
ACCESS gets $62,000
February 8, 2012: ACCESS, a youth-run charity in Brampton, received a $62,000 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation recently. Full Story
Playing ball hockey for charity
November 16, 2011: The first annual Charity Ball-ACCESS U Laurier hockey tournament raised funds for charity projects including a library restoration in Haiti through ACCESS. Full Story
Teens learn to give
May 10, 2011: Workshops developed to help young people become active community members attracted about 200 teenagers to a Brampton community centre for the 3rd Annual Youth Making a Difference Workshop. Full Story
Five years of ACCESS for youth education
March 9, 2011: The impact of the life-changing trip in 2006 was evident March 5 when supporters gathered at Brampton City Hall to celebrate the fifth anniversary of ACCESS. Full Story
Accessing you | ACCESS U – Laurier
September 22, 2010: Student-run non-profit organization begins leadership workshop series and fundraising at Wilfred Laurier University. Full Story
Local youth raise funds for mission to Haiti
July 15, 2010: A group of local volunteers is fundraising and preparing for a 10-day trip to Jacmel, Haiti, as talk of continued need for the troubled Haitian people continues. Full Story
Arts can change the world
June 16, 2010: Arts for Change is an unique way to raise awareness about the organization and it offers a chance for young, talented youth to get their “big break” in front of peers and a youth-oriented, non-profit organization, said Daniel Francavilla, president of ACCESS. Full Story
Students embrace social justice
March 26, 2010: Every idea– big or small– has the power to make a positive difference. That was the crux of the message some 250 high school students from several schools in Peel heard from their peers here. Full Story
Building a Civilization of Love
May 7, 2009: ACCESS founder Daniel Francavilla participates in Radio Teopoli’s live show ”A Civilization of LOVE” at St. Patrick’s Elementary School. Listen Here
Supporting a dream through school expansion project in Jamaica
February 5, 2009: As a collaborative development project, ACCESS is involved in the expansion of a primary school in Jamaica. Ken Cooper, a Brampton, Ontario resident, took time to visit the school he attended 36 years ago while on a recent trip to Jamaica. Full Story
Canadian teenager gives poor children ACCESS to a dream
January 2009: Confidence Bound Magazine asks Daniel Francavilla, now a university student, what it was that drove him to do what he did. The interview is available in its original magazine page format as a downloadable PDF. Full Story
Students collect supplies for Honduran children
September 12, 2008: ACCESS called upon community members to consider adding extra items to their back-to-school shopping carts for students in the developing world who have very limited access to these items. Though still on summer break, several high-school students volunteered to help make the annual fundraising event a success. Full Story
Youth input needed to drive change in society
While many youth in North America play video games and listen to their iPod’s, many others living in Third World countries can’t even go to school or eat due to impoverished conditions. Are the youth in our community even capable of getting involved with these global problems? Some people think so. Full Story
Students show importance of education: Contest
June 28, 2008: Brampton elementary school students from grades one to eight submitted a wide variety of entries to the ACCESS Charity Student Contest. Students were asked to express creatively the value of school in their lives, why children in the developing world should have access to education, or why they like school. Full Story
ACCESS granted to kids in Third World
June 20, 2008 Two years have passed since travelling to the Dominican Republic on a high school exposure trip, but he has since established a student-run non-profit organization, raised $20,000 and sent a few large shipments of supplies to help children attend school in three different countries. Full Story
ACCESS launches Student Contests
April 21, 2008: Student-operated ACCESS Charity launched a new initiative for local elementary school students. The Student Contests are focused on the value of education and are available to students at select elementary schools in Peel. Full Story
Symposium assures Youth Can Move the World
February 25, 2008: ACCESS Charity joined over 20 other local organizations and over 250 youth for this year’s Youth Can Move the World Symposium. The event was held at the HJA Brown Education Center in Mississauag on Saturday, February 23, 2008. Full Story
Annual School Supply Drive a success
September 4, 2007: ACCESS Charity and members of the Youth Ministry at St. Marguerite d’Youville Parish raised over $1300 and collected several boxes of school supplies during the annual School Supply Drive for students in the developing world. Full Story
Building a classroom in Colombia
April 4, 2007: ACCESS Charity continues to expand in giving children a chance at education as the charity takes a big leap forward by building a classroom in Colombia for kindergarten students. Full Story
Unlikely Hero to the Rescue
July 14, 2006: In a time when the world needs heroes, 15 year-old Brampton resident Daniel Francavilla heard the call. The St. Marguerite d’Youville student created a unique charity, the sole function of which is to bring aid to less fortunate children living in the Dominican Republic by providing them school uniforms and other supplies. Full Story
Poverty moves student to action
June 30, 2006: Starting a charity for children in the developing world is not an average pastime for most young people. Daniel Francavilla is not your average youth. Sara Loftson reports on these experiences in the Dominican Republic and the charity work that he has started. Full Story
Brampton student starts charity
June 19, 2006: Daniel Francavilla, a grade 10 student from Brampton, started a charitable organization called ACCESS – “Allowing Children a Chance at Education with School Supplies” after traveling to the Dominican Republic in early 2006 for a Dominican Republic Exposure Experience. $8,500 has been raised so far. Full Story