$1000 donated to Cambodian and Congo People
August 26, 2010 · → No Comments - Make Comment
Zulu’s Candles for Community Christmas Campaign 2009 – DID achieve its fundraising goal and raised the $500 through sales – which was matched by Zulu.
The $1000 donation was shared between Sunrise Children’s Village and Handup Congo.
Leng Bonna from Sunrise Children’s Village in Cambodia said:
“Many thanks for your kind support to our children. We are in the process of up grade care and other facilities including our kitchen. With your kind donation of USD500 we can provide new stainless steel plates, soup bowls, spoons, forks and cups for 120 children. Again, many thanks for your generosity.
Leng Bonna, Cambodia Administration Manager
From the Congo, this message:
Très chère Maman Sue LIU, Le Comité de Gestion de la FLO à travers ma personne est content de faire votre connaissance.Nous vous remercions pour votre soutien aux jeunes de Lotumbe avec 500 AUD pour les micro crédit en vue de les aider de se prendre en charge ainsi que leur famille.Salutations dans le Seigneur.
Antoinette Mapele,Vice Présidente de la FLO CDCC/RDC
A STORY FROM CONGO – the women you support through FLO.
My buddy Lucy Hobgood-Brown returned from a month in Congo just before Christmas, where she saw that a ‘hand up, not a handout’ can make a lasting impact. Our donation has gone towards a community loan fund in the remote village of Lotumbe, where Lucy’s father was born and where she lived as a child.
Now a resident of Sydney, Lucy is deeply involved in community development projects in Lotumbe. In collaboration with a Congolese women’s organisation, “FLO”, Lucy and others like you and me are helping give FLO members the key to economic progress. We are helping to unleash women’s potential! Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population.
Lucy tells me that countries such as China (where she also works) have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it’s also the best strategy for fighting poverty.
Meet Mama Patience, a fine example of a FLO member who is making a tremendous difference in her community.
Thanks to the micro loan made possible by FLO (with our capital), Patience now has goats, chickens, and several canoes which she rents out — and is able to pay her daughter’s school fees. For details about HandUp Congo, visit www.handupcongo.org.
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