$1000 donation to NCCLA

We recently made a US$1000 donation to the New Cambodian Children's Life Association (NCCLA) to help them with day to day running costs at the orphanage. They have found life very difficult of late, the global recession has hit them too, both directly and indirectly.

The money was gratefully received, as the email from Neth below will testify:

"Please be informed that the sum amount of $1000 donated from you last week now it is well arrived to NCCLA already since Friday last week. This support is absolutely vital; without this we all would really have difficulties owing to the Cambodia economic crisis and almost all of the countries in the world go down in terms of this, and up to now it has not yet been better.

I would like to take this time to express my deep thank all of your friends in UK all of them are very kind and generous to contribute to raising fund in order to help orphans and poor children in Cambodia.

For the business at the Veiyo at the moment the sale is very slow in this season, as this month there are not so many customers. We are in Cambodia is having a tough time surviving as many more (10,000 people) lost their jobs because of the Hun Sen Government closed their Casino through out the Kingdom of Cambodia. But Mr. Alan and English Friends, Neth Thavy + Staff will never forget our job to the poor and parentless children by continue our work and helping NCCLA. You and all of us here try our best as much as we can afford even though the economy is so bad. Together we strive hard to live better life...in Cambodia.

Finally, we wish you and all in the UK happiness, good health, longevity, strength, in order to continue helping the orphans and poor children under the care of NCCLA and Many all the sacred things in the world to guard you at all times and success in all your future endeavors. With love and gratitude, The Children, Staff and Neth of the NCCLA."

Neth recently had some more sad news when his grandmother passed away. She had been a big part of the NCCLA family and will be profoundly missed by all. The photo below shows the children during the recent period of mourning.


Neth assures me that they are all moving on positively, and trust that his grandmother will be reborn into a new, happy life.

Thank you all for your fantastic support, past, present and future!

Best wishes,

Alan.

The most successful wine-tasting ever!

We held the third Cambodian Futures Foundation wine-tasting at the Hanover Community Centre on Friday 5th December, hosted by Henry Butler of the Butler's Wine Cellar, and as with the previous wine-tasting evenings it was a resounding success - both financially and in terms of people's feedback. Everyone I've spoken to seems to have enjoyed it as much as the previous ones.

Financially the event was the most successful we've ever held, with a profit to the CFF of £523.23, which was in no small part due to the extreme generosity shown by everyone there in buying raffle tickets. Indeed, the raffle was so popular I ended up having to 'create' extra raffle tickets out of anything paper-like I could lay my hands on...but it was the worth the effort as the hand-made tickets raised an extra £70.

So thanks to everyone for coming and being so generous, I do hope you all enjoyed it. I also want to thank Iain and Pam from the Hanover Community Centre for letting us have the hall free of charge, and of course extra special thanks to Henry for hosting the event in his inimitable style - we really couldn't do it without him!

I really hope that we'll be holding another event next summer, and hopefully it will be another wine-tasting if I can persuade Henry again...watch this space!

Lastly, I would like to wish everyone who has supported the CFF this year, especially the regular and occasional donors who are the life blood of the charity, and everyone else who has helped us in their own way a very Merry Christmas and an extremely prosperous and happy New Year. I will leave the very final word to those that you have supported so generously (please click on the image to view it full-size.

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Birth certificates for all!

On our last visit to Cambodia in September, Neth (who runs the New Cambodian Children's Life Association, or NCCLA, the organisation which runs the orphanage in Phnom Penh) told us that he needed to get birth certificates for all the children as they would need them to register for High School, and for a wide variety of other reasons in later life. They only cost $25 each, but times that by 28 and all of a sudden $700 was required.

The other Trustees and I felt that this would be a great cause to contribute to, so in November we transferred $1000 to the NCCLA. Of course the payment was greatly appreciated, as the photos below will testify.



Thank you as always to all regular supporters for your continued generosity, and to all other contributors to the CFF as well for making this kind of support possible.

Best wishes to you all,

Alan.