Please continue to stand with families struggling for safety, dignity, and hope. Consider donating in Honour of a friend or a family member. Share with friends, family and neighbours. 100% of your donation helps the children and their families in the field. No amount is held back for admin or expenses! Tax Receipt is issued immediately by CanadaHelps.org

Here’s to a NEW YEAR of community and meaningful giving that support children and families halfway around the world. Your generosity and compassion have an impact far greater than can be measured.

Thank you for your incredible support throughout 2024 and 2025. These have been deeply challenging years, yet together we have continued to adapt, respond, and move forward. For this, we are profoundly grateful to you and to our partners across Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia as we welcome in a new year of community and giving.

Strong local leadership and locally rooted organizations—trusted providers of vital services for the most vulnerable—have enabled continued access to healthcare, improved nutrition, safe water and sanitation, primary and vocational education, and livelihoods that support sustainable income generation.

Because of your support, children, young people, and families are building stronger, more hopeful futures. Your commitment to life-saving services has helped families regain stability during times of immense hardship. Our healthcare programs faced extraordinary challenges in sustaining prevention and treatment for diseases such as Malaria, HIV, & Tuberculosis due to Globe Fund cutbacks of vaccines. In addition, your swift response following the March earthquake in Myanmar was felt in every community we serve —saving lives and easing suffering when it was needed most.

In Luang Prabang, Laos…our healthcare programs faced challenges in sustaining prevention and treatment for diseases such as streptococcus, dengue, and typhoid. In addition, your swift response during Covid and during the rising measles cases was felt by all we serve – saving lives and easing suffering when it was needed most.

Our education initiatives have enabled children to return to school and remain there, while our vocational training programs continue to equip young people with the skills they need to secure employment and build independent, resilient lives.

With our deepest gratitude and best wishes for a wonderful 2026.

Our Partners

  • Lao Friends Hospital for Children,
    Luang Prabang Laos

    Learn about the volunteer experience at LFHC where our team makes a difference in saving the lives of thousands of children in Southeast Asia.

    Watch our video

  • based in Yangon Myanmar

    19 Clinics, 2,253 village health workers, 70 mobile medical teams, 1200 medical and support staff all over the country and management team of six people.

    Watch our video

Past Events

Taste the World

Our signature wine-tasting event was held for 10 years in Vancouver at the Four Seasons Hotel Ballroom 2009 – 2018 and in 2019 at the Hyatt Hotel.

Taste the World event

“Gratitude is how I feel being involved with Taste the World and the CW Asia FundFoundation; a gathering of exceptional people to make a significant difference. Not only does each dollar create such a dramatic impact but the follow-up, due diligence and involvement that we have in each project’s success is the deepest sense of gratitude one can feel.”

— Cinnamon Russell
Taste the World event

Special thanks to the Taste the World volunteers who work tirelessly at home and overseas. Our collective group over 10 years:

Annie Kingston, Dawn Marshall, Pam Darragh, Jackie Cragg, Laura Ashton, Omar Melzer, Alison Jackes, Brad Jefferson, Brenda McAllister, Carolyn Pinkney, Celia Martin, Chris Owen, Cinnamon Russell, Corinne Jefferson, Crystal Crete, Nina Cassils, Dana Weeks-Bourne, Danica Jeffery, Darlene Hayne, Deborah Louvier, Dianne Carruthers-Wood, Dori-Ann Stubos, Effie Genovese, Fran Will, Gary Mitchell, George Ritchie, Christine Chu, Carrie Nelson, George Stubos, Heather Notman, Heidi Coglon, Jane Caddick, Janet McPhee, Jean Allan Barbeau, Jenn Winsor, Jessica Taylor, Julie Kucher, Karen Carmichael, Kim Gartland, Larissa Stadnichuk, Lauren Thorpe, Leanne Chan, Marily Mearns, Mary McPhail, Mary Zilba, Melanie Fung, Michele Ross, Ron Orr, Sarah Pattison, Shannon Belkin, Sharon Chan Knight, Sheila Anzarut, Sheri Keenan, Stella Kilindris, Stephanie Bonn, Stephanie Dong, Stewart Hayashi, Susan Aynsley, Susan Evans, Susan Scott Gabe, Tara Colpitts, Teresa Campbell, Tim Crowhurst, Trevor Howes, Valerie Orr and Vivian Thom.

Our History

Co-founders Nina and John Cassils, and Susan and Wieland Wettstein share their passion for helping to bring aid to SE Asia — Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and Myanmar (Burma)… by sourcing and supplying critical pharmaceuticals, providing funding for education, nutrition and clean water, the absolute basic necessities to poor communities and most importantly connecting people.

Our Board of Directors:    Nina Cassils,  Leanne Chan,  John MacKay,  Dawn Marshall and  Vivian Thom.

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Please continue to stand with families struggling for safety, dignity, and hope. Consider donating in Honour of a friend or a family member. Share with friends, family and neighbours. 100% of your donation helps the children and their families in the field. No amount is held back for admin or expenses! Tax Receipt is issued immediately by CanadaHelps.org