Please take a look at Ana's plan below and help her to her goal if you can!
I have volunteered to be involved with, and raise money for a non-profit community development organization based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia called Tabitha. It is designed to help the very poorest of the poor in Cambodia to help themselves rise out of poverty through the innovative use of savings to develop self-sustaining funding throughout the villages. Families that participate in the Tabitha Programme move from complete and utter poverty to running a business and owning a house. There are six or more 10 week cycles that stretch over 3-a5 years and begin with the family saving 25c per week. Tabitha pays 10% interest on these savings, and the families slowly build up their capital base to invest in seedlings to plant and grow into vegetables that they later sell; chicks purchased at only 50c each and grown into chickens sold at 10 times that amount. Progressively the family strives to save larger amounts per week and they then receive more interest. It might seem like a lot to sacrifice a portion of their income every week for a family on the poverty line, but the cost to one family in the Tabitha Programme is only ~US$100 - the rest comes from donations. However, some families need extra help, so volunteers from all over the world come and build houses for them to live in after they successfully complete the programme.
Each house costs $1300 for the raw materials, frame and foundations, but does not include the labour for building the houses. This is where my schoolmates and I come in. At the end of March 2015, a group of 80 students from my grade at United World College of South East Asia Dover (UWCSEA) will be going to Phnom Penh in Cambodia, to spend a week building houses - nailing in the bamboo on floors and tin on the sides of the houses. We hope to raise over $57,000 prior to the trip, in order to build 44 houses.
We have already raised over $10,000 through bake sales, macbook decals, movie nights, carol singings, dodgeball tournaments etc. however I want to do something more - something BIGGER.
So, I have decided I will undertake a 10 km non-stop supervised swim on December 13 this year in our school pool in order to raise funds. I would really like your support in helping me meet my goal to raise US$10,000 for this worthy cause. If you would like to sponsor me, You can give me money directly, or you can give money to the head coach (Aaron) and he will pass it to me. I will update you with my progress on the swim, and if i achieved my $10,000 target. Every cent counts. Your help will last a lifetime.
We have already raised over $10,000 through bake sales, macbook decals, movie nights, carol singings, dodgeball tournaments etc. however I want to do something more - something BIGGER.
So, I have decided I will undertake a 10 km non-stop supervised swim on December 13 this year in our school pool in order to raise funds. I would really like your support in helping me meet my goal to raise US$10,000 for this worthy cause. If you would like to sponsor me, You can give me money directly, or you can give money to the head coach (Aaron) and he will pass it to me. I will update you with my progress on the swim, and if i achieved my $10,000 target. Every cent counts. Your help will last a lifetime.
Thank you so much!
All the best,
Ana Koczanowski
All the best,
Ana Koczanowski
