See how the $66,000 from 2011 event was spent! View 2010/2011 event photos at www.ttwvan.com.

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)

These lovely brochures show the history of the Ankor Children’s Hospital with lovely images from their origin in 1993 to present.

View or download the PDF file here.

Even though I have not lived in Canada for many years I am still very proud to call myself a Canadian. With Canada Day coming up very soon I just wanted to say thank you to all the wonderful Canadians I have met over the last several years who have so generously gone out of their way to support Angkor Hospital for Children and the kids of Cambodia.

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.

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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.

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

2009 has passed and 2010 is coming! Today is the last day of the 2009 and please accept the wishes from Children and staff at Angkor Hospital for Children. May New Year brings you and your family good health, good wealth, good luck, and prosperity.
 
With warmest wishes!

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.

www.angkorhospital.org | www.fwab.org

Helping Change the World for Children in Rural Cambodia

Dr. John and Nina Cassils are co-founders of the Cassils Wettstein Asia Fund that advocates for clean water, healthcare, education and income generation in South East Asia. Having traveled extensively throughout South East Asia since the mid 1980’s the Cassils formally co-founded the Cassils Wettstein Asia Fund with Wieland and Susan Wettstein in 2005. Together with the Wettsteins, the Cassils are committed to projects in SE Asia including the Angkor Hospital for Children. Their philosophy is to work directly with those in the field. In 2003 Nina learned about a Canadian involved at Angkor Hospital for Children and their unwavering commitment to work with AHC began. The Cassils continue to visit all their projects in SE Asia annually.

“We are honoured to be part of the 10th anniversary of AHC and witness the groundbreaking ceremony for the new satellite program. We have great admiration for the personal achievements and sacrifices made by Kenro Izu, David Shoemaker and the 28 recipients working at AHC since its inception to make AHC a center of excellence in pediatrics. AHC has played a key role in rebuilding Cambodia’s health and medical educational system and is a model hospital for all of SE Asia.

The new satellite program in Sot Nikum is of great importance allowing swift access to medical treatment without the exhorbitant cost of transportation thus encouraging families to seek treatment before their child is seriously ill. With 30% of AHC patients coming from this area, the new facility will take some of the pressure off the already heavily tasked AHC in Siem Reap. We congratulate the staff of AHC, the volunteers and donors for making Kenro’s dream a reality.”

Dr. John and Nina Cassils on behalf of The Cassils Wettstein Asia Fund

Download a PDF describing the 10 year history of AHC (11mb)

Dr. John and Nina Cassils

Since becoming involved with Friends Without A Border in 2005, John and Nina have continued to increase their support of Friends Without A Border and Angkor Hospital for Children. They have proved to be vital ambassadors of the organization as they spread news about the good work being done at AHC to their friends and colleagues in Canada and worldwide. They have introduced numerous volunteers to the hospital, hosted multiple get-togethers at their home to raise awareness and spread the word about AHC, and presented AHC to other like-minded organizations to build networks and foster collaboration throughout Cambodia.

Nina and John have generously supported the organization and enabled others to do the same through The Cassils Wettstein Asia Fund. One of John and Nina’s greatest gifts to Friends Without A Border has been their role in mobilizing funding for the AHC Satellite Project at Sot Nikum, which will provide many more children in Cambodia with the care they so desperately need.

We are truly grateful to the Cassils for their dedication to the organization. Thank you, John and Nina.

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Helping Change the World for Children in Rural Cambodia

Children are the innocent victims of the most drastic consequences of poverty. In Cambodia, thousands of children die each year of preventable and treatable disease and it is not uncommon for a child to die of complications from respiratory infections, diarrhea, and diseases which are practically eradicated in the more developed countries.

In this impoverished and battered country, the mortality statistics are earthshaking:

• 15% of Cambodian children die before the age of 5
• 35% of Cambodian children are not immunized for polio, measles, or diphtheria
• 45% of Cambodian children under 5 are moderately to severely underweight
• 12,000 Cambodian children under the age of 15 live with HIV/AIDS

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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg nurse helps restore a shattered nation
By: Rick Friedlander

SIEM REAP, Cambodia — David Shoemaker, a nurse from Winnipeg, stumbled upon Siem Reap during a volunteer trip to Southeast Asia in January 2000 and decided to return to continue his efforts. He’s still there.

Siem Reap, site of the architectural wonder of the world, Angkor Wat, shows Cambodia’s tentative steps toward economic growth. When I first saw it in 2004, Siem Reap seemed to be another dusty town with a great attraction, slowly emerging in the global tourism market. When I revisited it a year ago, billboards were promoting new shopping malls and cellphones, and hotels were competing with aid groups for real estate.

It has helped that a decade has passed since Pol Pot died quietly in the jungles of northern Cambodia. Brother No. 1 and his radical form of agrarian communism, enforced by the dreaded Khmer Rouge, brought the country to its knees. No one is doing more than Shoemaker to get it back on its feet.

“What has kept me here for so long? Quite simply, it is the people, the doctors, nurses, housekeepers and the rest of the staff at AHC (Angkor Hospital for Children),” Shoemaker said. “I have never experienced a country where the people want so desperately to learn and improve.”

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