Project Somos is grateful to our major supporters, partners and friends for their tremendous contributions. Without the support of these exceptional individuals and organizations, the vision of a Children’s Village could not have become a reality.

Partners & Friends

Advisors

Joe Fiorante is a Vancouver native and the managing partner of Camp Fiorante Matthews, a Vancouver law firm which specializes in complex aviation, product liability and class action cases. The firm has an extensive history of pro bono representation of the disadvantaged and representation of victims in mass tort and product liability cases. He is a fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and Litigation Counsel of America and a former Chair of the Canadian Bar Association Aviation and Space Law group.

Manda Aufochs Gillespie is a consultant, writer, health and environment researcher, mother, author of Green Mama: Giving your Child a Healthy Start and a Greener Future and Green Mama-to-Be: Creating a Healthy, Happy, and Toxin-Free Pregnancy. In her 20 years as an ecological designer she has helped green a large midwestern daycare, one of the world’s only urban eco-villages, and has been dubbed the “green guru” by the media, appearing on HBO, ABC, and CBC. She lives on Cortes Island, British Columbia.

Dr. Lawrence Greenberg – Dr. Greenberg’s specialties are paediatrics, general psychiatry, and child psychiatry and he is a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Greenberg is the author of the Test Of Variables of Attention (T.O.V.A.). Although officially retired, he continues to provide international T.O.V.A. interpretation consultations and consultations to clinicians.