A wine tasting and silent auction not to be missed.

Purchase tickets on line at ttwvan.com and fwab.org or mail your cheque payable to “Angkor Hospital for Children” Attention:Crystal to 2160-650 West Georgia St, Vancouver, BC V6B 4N7

Taste the World Printable Flyer (PDF)

A vertical wine tasting party not to miss….

Purchase tickets on line at ttwvan.com and fwab.org or mail your cheque payable to “Angkor Hospital for Children” Attention:Crystal to 2160-650 West Georgia St, Vancouver, BC V6B 4N7

Taste the World Printable Flyer (PDF)

Join us for a glass of wine on Tuesday September 28th at Courtney’s Boutique Kerrisdale, 5:30 to 8:30 pm, for the launching of the Izara Arts Yoga and Pilates Bag Collection.

Place: 2184 West 41st Avenue @ Yew
RSVP Gogo (Courtney) MacCuish
courtneyboutique@gmail.com

View or download the PDF file here.

For many of you, it was volunteering your precious vacation time, for others it was bringing medicines, hygiene kits, toys and art supplies and for some it was holding dinner parties and presentations to raise awareness of the work of AHC in Siem Reap. To all of you we owe you a very special thank you. Your generous contributions of time and money go a long ways in Cambodia. We are so very appreciative of your participation and charity. You are truly making a difference.

Download the original pdf file here.

From sending shoe boxes full of toys and other goodies to give out to the Cambodian kids, to organizing fundraising events, to graciously hosting Cambodian staff visiting Canada, Canadians from all over the country have helped to make Angkor Hospital for Children the place that Cambodian families want to bring their children to for medical care.

And of course, many thanks to all the Canadians who made the very, very long journey over to Cambodia to support us in person, working alongside our Cambodian staff, kindly sharing their knowledge and experiences always with the goal of building up the skills of the health professionals here….and to get our staff in shape.

It was wonderful having other Canadians visit us in Siem Reap. I do hope that everyone who did, had fun. I encourage you to please extend my invitation to other Canadians to come spend some time with us at AHC. Our new fully donated visitor’s center offers a museum atmosphere providing the AHC story since inception in 1999.

Again from everyone here at Angkor Hospital for Children, thank you so much and have a wonderful Canada Day!

Sincerely,
David Shoemaker
Angkor Hospital for Children
Siem Reap, Kingdom of Cambodia

May 13th, 2010

UltraSONIX of Richmond ships a gift of life to the Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap. This hospital provides comprehensive care to children on average of 400 arriving children and their families each day. Recognized as a teaching hospital, it serves as a training site for health professionals throughout Cambodia through its Medical Education Center. More importantly, please recognize the efforts of UltraSONIX having the foresight to give such an important lifesaving gift.

Many thanks to freight forwarders Mannix Freight Services and to Cathay Pacific for delivering the lifesaving machine to Cambodia. 

The Angkor Hospital for Children, founded by renowned Japanese photographer Kenro Izu in 1999, supported by Friends without a Border, provides comprehensive medical care to children in the Siem Reap area. On average, 400 children and their families arrive at the hospital each day.

Recognized by Cambodia’s Ministry of Health as an official teaching hospital, it serves as a training site for health professionals throughout Cambodia through its Medical Education Center. The Capacity Building and Health Education Program works to both strengthen the capacity and improves the quality of local health centers and works with community members to teach good public health practices. 
 
Charity Navigator, America’s leading independent charity evaluator, endorses Friends without a Border with four stars.

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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It is a 2007 book by Professor Paul Collier exploring the reason why impoverished countries fail to progress despite international aid and support. In the book Collier argues that there are many countries whose residents have experienced little, if any, income growth over the 1980s and 1990s. On his reckoning, there are just under 60 such economies, home to almost 1 billion people.

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World, An Entrepreneur’s Odyessey to Educate the World’s Concern, by John Wood Founder of Room to Read. “Our future goal is more ambitious than ever: to enable more than 10 million children in over a dozen developing world countries to maximize their educational experiences by 2015.”—-John Wood Founder of R2R. We are proud to share that through the end of 2009 Room to Read has…
Established: 9,220 libraries
Constructed: 1,129 schools
Published: 433 local language book titles
Printed: 4.1 million local books
Donated: 3.3 million English language books
Supported: 8,707 girls’ educations
Benefitted: 4,066,775 children!!

My Road to Deschapelles, by Grant Grant Mellion.The Road to Deschapelles is the story of an extraordinary couple who, in 1954, founded Hospital Albert Schweitzer in Deschapelles in central Haiti and where they and the hospital have cared for the most needy and the sick for more than 40 years.   For over forty years Gwen Grant Mellon has lived and worked in Deschapelles, Haiti, where she and Dr. Larimer Mellon built and actively operated Hopital Albert Schweitzer. In these pages she tells her story of courage, inspiration, and humanitarian service. She tells us how she and Larry Mellon met, grew, changed their lives, and established a life-saving landmark for the benefit of the 216,000 people in Haiti’s Artibonite Valley. After the 2010 earth quake, was one of the only two hospitals still standing in Hait!!.

Song of HAITI, The Lives of Dr. Larimer and Gwen Mellon at the Albert Scheitzer Hospital of Deschapelles by Barry Paris.
“On Wednesday, October 18, 2000, Gwendolyn Grant Mellon will travel from Deschapelles Haiti and the Hopital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) which she founded with her husband, Dr. Larimer Mellon almost 50 years ago, to receive the prestigious Albert Schweitzer Award for Humanitarianism. The award is timely due to the recent release of “Song of Haiti,” a true-life love story, adventure story and biography by Barry Paris describing in compelling detail the lives of Dr. Larimer and Gwen Mellon and their legacy of remarkable service amidst the exotic voodoo atmosphere of Haiti.” HAS was started as a small hospital clinic and has grown into a medical center, a model worthy of duplication in other developing countries.  NO ONE WAS TURNED AWAY!

GIVING, How each of Us can Change the World, — Bill Clinton. “Bill Clinton’s Giving is an inspiring look at how individual endeavors can save lives and solve problems, and it offers compelling examples of both citizen and corporate activism at work in the world today.–OPRAH”

The Wisdom of Whores, bureaucrats, brothels and the business of AIDS by elizabeth pisani. Elizabeth Pisani is the director of Ternyata Ltd., a public health consultancy based in London, UK. She is formerly a journalist and currently an epepidemiologistbest known for her work on HIV/AIDS, in particular for her controversial book The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS.

A LAND LIKE NONE YOU KNOW, Awe and wonder in Burma on the road to Mandalay, Patrick Forsyth. This is a lively and engaging account of his journey. The author’s sincerity and affinity with the many common people he meets on his unusual journey shines through.

Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse, The Battle for Human Dignity in Bangkok’s Bleakest Slums, Father Joe Maier. For twenty-five years, Father Joe Maier, a Catholic priest, has lived and worked in Bangkok’s bleakest slums, establishing more than thirty schools, five shelters for street kids, and the city’s first AIDS hospice and home for AIDS mothers with AIDS kids – working with and in opposition to authority, while being threatened and shot at and, ultimately, praised by even his enemies. Here he tells the stories of the poorest of Thailand’s poor.

Three Cups of Tea, is a New York Times bestselling book by Greg Mortenson, one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban.

Another Quiet American, Stories of Life in Laos —Brett Dakin.This is a first-hand account of a poor country struggling with economic crisis, political instability, and a legacy of war. Above all, it is the story of a young American coming to terms with his country’s role in the world at the beginning of a new century.”No other personal account of contemporary Laos is as informative, under-the-surface, and well-written as Another Quiet American. By paying close attention to the Lao and falang (foreign) lives around him, Dakin makes Vientiane jump off the printed page.” Joe Cummings, author of Lonely Planet Laos

Stalking the Elephant Kings – In Search of Laos by Christopher Kremmer. Twenty years after the Indochina wars, Christopher Kremmer visited Laos. Stalking the Elephant Kings tells the story of a Southeast Asian revolution and its tragic consequences. Based on extensive travel inside Laos and exhaustive research abroad, the book reveals new details of the fate of one of Asia’s oldest monarchies. A must for both student and traveler, it provides a contemporary portrait of a country which will play a key role in the future of Indochina, as well as a glimpse of its secret history.

Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Mike Bryan and Greg Mortenson.By 2009, Mortenson and his foundation, the Central Asia Institute, have established more than 130 schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan, most built especially for girls. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and achieved celebrity status in the world of philanthropy on the strength of his mega-bestselling book about his endeavors, THREE CUPS OF TEA….More memorably, he provides stirring examples of how tolerance can diffuse aggression by sharing a few of the success stories from the more than 50,000 students he has helped to educate.

Download the May 2010 News from Children of the Forest Foundation

Children of the Forest providing shelter, protection, education and health care for orphaned, abused, abandoned and at risk stateless children living along the Thai/Burmese border.

Monday January 25th, Taste the World, a wine tasting at the Four Seasons Hotel 7pm – 9:30pm. It was a CWAF sponsored event… net proceeds to benefit Angkor Hospital for Children.

Thank you for attending Taste the World. $45,000 raised to benefit the Angkor Hospital for Children, in Siem Reap, Cambodia allowing for:

• 3770 child visits to the Outpatient Department
• 100 admissions of the sickest children to the Inpatient Units and the ICU
• 149 visits to the ER
• 43 surgeries
• 4228 prescriptions being filled
• 1364 laboratory tests being performed
• 193 x-rays

Please know your donation has made a great impact on the lives of families and children in Cambodia. On behalf of the children and the staff of AHC kindly accept our deepest gratitude.

Sincerely,

Kim Gartland
Taste the World
Co-chair

Nina Cassils
CWAsia Fund and AHC Canada
Co-founder

David Shoemaker
Angkor Hospital for Children
Director of Medical Education