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.