Today Stan and Nicole had the pleasure of giving some of the donations we have received from our readers to CDO Orphanage. We'd especially like to recognise Deakin University's Information Technology Services Division (ITSD) for the morning tea that raised AU$241.10. This was morning tea was organised by Erica Lehmann and the Professional Services Team in ITSD.
So a big THANK YOU to all you generous people in ITSD, Erica and everyone in the Professional Services Team. We have a laminated thank you card from the children at CDO. Until I get back to Geelong to give this to you all, this photo will have to suffice:
Nearly everyone signed this with their name and age. Unfortunately we couldn't find a couple of the children. Some got excited and signed it several times.
Here is the receipt we got on behalf of ITSD. The currency exchange rate we got was AU$1.00 = US$1.02. So the $248 includes all the change we had on us when we handed over your donation.
I am happy to say that your donation will go to a number of useful causes at the orphanage. A small amount will be used for some immediate needs such as food, but even better, (in our opinion) most of your donation will go to programs that will allow the orphanage to be more sustainable and less reliant on hand outs. These programs include buying and raising baby chickens (for food and for sale), which also teaches useful agriculture skills. They also are buying a few bicycles which they will rent out to tourists to use around Siem Reap. Over the next few days we will update the blog with photos of how your money has helped.
We also had the pleasure of giving one other donation of US$204. So today CDO had the equivalent of seven months of "Cambodian wages" donated all at once.
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