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Project HOPE

Project Hope, Ubud, BaliBali, Indonesia. July 2nd - 15th, 2010.
Project Hope provides basic healthcare and educational activities for marginalized children in Ubud, Bali. We work with project Hope from July 2nd until July 15th, 2010. Our activities include
painting of the centersupporting empoverished families personal hygiene workshop
NameProject HOPE, Ubud, Bali.AimTo support ...

6 July, 2010

Asia, Bali, children, handprints, healthcare, Indonesia, Ubud

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Myanmar Child Refugees School

Myanmar Child Refugees SchoolKuala Lumpur, Malaysia. July 1st, 2010
Every year, a number of political refugees from Myanmar make it across the border with Thailand and further into Malaysia. Their children are semi legalized but aren't entitled to basic services. A private initiative offers them education and safety from traffickers.

Occasionally, ...

1 July, 2010

Asia, children, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Myanmar, refugees

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Forest Voices

Forest Voices, SarawakKuala Lumpur, Malaysia. June 30th, 2010
Forest Voices documents the knowledge of the indigenous people of Sarawak, who have always lived with the forest and use it to empower them and reverse the trend of logging before it is too late.

We support with a small donation, our old camera, and some ...

30 June, 2010

Asia, ecology, indigenous, Malaysia, Sarawak

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Freeland Foundation

Bangkok, Thailand. June 22nd, 2010We spend Earth Day planting mangroves at the Khlong Pittayalongkorn School. With a small team of volunteers we give 350 saplings their place in the muddy waters south of Bangkok. The mangrove coast is home to a unique ecosystem that would perish if the trees disappeared.

Name:Freeland Foundation, Bangkok, ...

22 June, 2010

Asia, Bangkok, ecology, Mangroves, mudcoast, planting, saplings, Thailand

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KNGO

KNGO CambodiaBatambang, Cambodia. June 17th - 20th, 2010
KNGO provides vocational training (computer skills and English) to underprivileged children in Battambang, Cambodia.

We work with KNGO in June 2010. Our activities include
decorating the centerdonating stationary and libary books

NameKhmer New Generation Organization, Battambang, CambodiaAimTo support poor children getting a better chance in ...

20 June, 2010

Asia, Battambang, Cambodia, education, project, vocational training

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Sao Sary Foundation

Sao Sary FoundationKampong Speu, Cambodia. June 16th - 18th, 2010SSF (Sao Sary Foundation)'s mission is to "to identify at risk children and provide sustainable assistance to both the children and their families"

We do some workshops with the children and support three poor families buying them cows for sustainable income generation.

NameSao ...

18 June, 2010

Asia, Cambodia, children, human rights, Kampong Speu, trafficking

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Saigon Children’s Charity

Saigon's Children CharityHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam. June 15th, 2010SCC supports children of empoverished families with a scholarschip program and cooperates with a number of local schools in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

We support three children and do some interesting labor at a school in the city: we clean up schoolbooks with erasers ...

17 June, 2010

Asia, children, education, HCMC, Saigon, scholarship, Vietnam

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Peuan Mit

Vientiane, Laos. June 3th, 2010Peuan Mit ("strong friends") in Lao, supports former street children with vocational training. They run a restaurant themselves that serves delicious food.

We donate what we have left of our Lao KIP, following the suggestion of stayanotherday.org.

NamePeuan Mit through stay-another-day.orgAim
to reintegrate the children into their society ...

9 June, 2010

Asia, children, Laos, Peuan Mit, restaurant, streetchildren, Vientiane

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COPE Laos

COPE Laos, VientianeVientiane, Laos. June 2nd, 2010We visit the good museum at the COPE center and learn about the results of cluster bombs. COPE helps victims of "bombies" that are sadly still prolific in remote areas of Laos, to get a tailor made artificial leg.

We have donated four legs.

NameCOPE Laos, ...

9 June, 2010

artificial leg, Asia, bombie, cluster bomb, clusterbomb, COPE, Laos, prosthesis, Vientiane

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Butterflychildren

Muang Sing, Laos. May 20th - 23rd, 2010The butterfly children's center in Muang Sing, northern Laos, provides scholarships to children and functions as a drop-in center for underprivileged children.

We buy stationary for the center, do workshops with the children, and make a monetary donation.

NameButterfly Children Development Center and School, Muang ...

23 May, 2010

Asia, butterflychildren, children, education, Laos, Muang Sing

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Leisurely riding a tricycle and donating it to a merchant afterwards.

Go Give Concept, Lijang, ChinaLijang, China. May 19th, 2010We buy a tricycle to discover the beautiful area around touristic town of Lijang. With sow-capped mountains in the background and a fresh breeze, pedaling is a delight.

We then find a poor merchant and donate her the bicycle to enhance her livelihood.

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19 May, 2010

Asia, China, gogive, independent, Lijang, tricycle, trike, Yunnan

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Project HOPE

Myanmar Child Refugees School

Forest Voices

Freeland Foundation

KNGO

Sao Sary Foundation

Saigon Children’s Charity

Peuan Mit

COPE Laos

Butterflychildren

Leisurely riding a tricycle and donating it to a merchant afterwards.

Sichuan Quake Relief