Monday 16 July 2012

Clare Holman's Trivia Night


Raising some much needed funds to help Clare stay in Cambodia and continue her work with “Chres Village Orphanage” and “Stepping Out Cambodia.”
When :  7pm Saturday 18th August 2012.
Where : Wellington Soldiers Memorial Club
Cost: $ 15 per person. (Tables of 8 – 10)
Guests are asked to bring a plate of nibblies to share with their table.
 To book a table, please contact Kate on 0427 466217.


Visitors from April-July 2012

Geoff and Diane Holman
Geoff with his three sponsor sons Chet, Visal and Pises.
Corrin Kelly with her sponsor children, Phola and Sokchea.
Debra and Jack Morgan, and Stacey, Amelia and Victoria Bruggy
Pictured with Corrin Kelly, Geoff and Diane Holman,
 and Victoria and Amelia Bruggy.
Amelia and Jack teaching Phos
and Sombo how to play Monopoly.
Amelia, Victoria and Jack
with some of the girls at the orphanage.
Ross, Sue and Sam Hobson
Pictured with the Chairman of the orphanage and Bun Lu.
Gary and Joy Giddings
Pictured at a Cambodian wedding with the Chairman 
of the orphanage's family.
Jeff, Nadine, Emily and Amy Tinsley
Pictured with their sponsor daughters, Sokha and Toeum.
Asher Milgate and Emma Grindley
Emma teaching some children a dance routine.

Tuesday 3 July 2012

Australian visit


For those of you who haven't heard yet, I will be bringing three of the orphans (Phola, So and Saray) to Australia in August for three weeks. We will be spending most of the time in Wellington, also visiting Sydney, Canberra and Nowra. Thank you to their amazing sponsors for making the boys dreams come true! The boys are so excited and counting down the days but are not so keen on experiencing the cold weather!
We will be at the Trivia Night (Saturday 18th Aug) in Wellington and will organise a get-together in Nowra (Monday 20th Aug) and Sydney (Saturday 11th Aug) to try to catch up with everyone.
We are now waiting to hear if the boys Australian Visa's have been accepted

Building a new house for fire victims

The boys have been busy over the last few months building a new house for a young family (Phos' sister) after their house was destroyed by fire in February.
Thank you to the generous people who donated money towards building the house, it is now finally finished!!
The boys spent most of their school holidays and weekends helping build the house. I am very proud of the time and effort they put into helping this family.
I am trying to teach the boys to help others, which they are keen to do anyways.



The family have written a letter to the people who donated money to build their lovely new house, which they love. (Translated from Khmer into English by Phos)

Dear kind friends,
When I saw our house on fire, I was very shocked and devastated that we had lost everything. I was sad that we lost our family house and all our property. I didn’t know how I was going to fix our problem, I was trying to think how can I get money quickly. I felt very helpless and worried all the time about my wife and sons. There was no way I could help them myself and this made me very scared.
In my life I have never felt like this before, I felt I lost everything. I can’t describe the feeling I felt. We lost everything from the small things to important things like farming equipment, important papers and money. We had nothing.
I didn’t know how I was going to earn money and to feed my family. I am not an educated man.
I would like to say thank you very much. I want to thank you more and more all the time. You are all generous people to help my family have a new house and make everything a house, and new machine. Now I know our life will be ok because of you all.
Thank you to Teacher Clare very much for finding people to help my family. You make us have everything good now. In my life I don’t know how to repay you and your friends. I can only say thank you to you all and hope you understand how much I thank you. Thank you for looking after my family when they were sick.
Finally, I wish all our generous ‘friends’ good luck and everything good for you because you are so kind to my family. You don’t know us but helped us, I am very surprised when I heard we will get a new house. I love our house, all my family do.
From Seng Soeuy and Phy Meas