FLOWERS FOR BEADS FOR CAMBODIA: May 2010

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Donational Fund Raising Raffle. June 2010

HI and welcome to information of the Fund Raising raffle I am currently running.

This Raffle has only a maximum of 100 tickets and for a $5 donation you will receive a ticket in this Raffle (While Tickets last of course)

First Prize is : $100 Meal Voucher at LONE STAR Cafe & Bar

Second Prize is : Womans Beauty Pack.

Third Prize is: : $50 Meal Voucher at LONE STAR Cafe & Bar

This Raffle will be Drawn at 7pm on Friday 2nd July 2010.

All winners will be notified and prizes will be personally delivered to yhe winners by my self Fiona Newsome.

This raffle is being held to help me get back to Cambodia to Wat Opots Childrens Community to help get the jewellery project off to a new level and start setting up for the new project called Heart and Hope Correspondence, which is a project designed to not only inspire the Children at Wat opot to read and write Cambodian and maybe also read and write english....but will provided for the children a trust worthy friend in the world who can send them kind supportive and loving words and wishes that hopefully the children can have in their life. I am aiming to get back to Wat Opots Childrens Community in August of this year...who knows maybe a little sooner??

If you need to contact me please email me feebs@clear.net.nz
........................................................or phone/txt NZ 021 727 323

Good Luck!!

Sorry for Delay in Information

Hi everyone I am sorry for the delay in updating this blogsite I am still on dial up and my photo sizes sometimes just don't seem to want to load at all ...All a bit frustrating but I will get on top of it all very soon!.....but alos I have but also very busy fund rasing again for my trip back to Wat opot Childrens community for this year............so stay Tuned

How this Journey Began

Fund Raising Journey 2008 / 2009

Hi My Name is Fiona,
I am ‘FEEBS’ Paua flowers & Flowers For Cambodia NZ ’
In August 2007 after reading an article in the Readers Digest NZ I created and followed a great opportunity to visit Project Wat Opot in the Takeo Provence Cambodia.
Whilst there I was so inspired by what they were trying achieving there I knew I had to return to help with what skills I had, and to share them with them.

To my knowledge Project Wat Opot up until January 2007 was an orphanage for children, some of whom were dying from the HIV virus. For 8 years prior to 2007 Wat Opot saw many of the children and some of their parents succumb to the virus.

January 2007 brought a new trail medication which then gave an opportunity for for the children to have prolonged life. Project Wat Opot was faced with a new challenge with the children that were HIV positive, it was impossible for them to return to a normal community. Discrimination and Stigma.
They have now changed their status as an orphanage to a ‘Community’ with a vision to be completely self sufficient.
They are doing this by welcoming the learning of any trades that can offer them the potential to bring money and to learn a trade that can help support their community.

The Trade that I can teach them is jewellery making for the commercial market of which I have a vast range of experience in this field.

What I am aiming to achieve in my time there in July 2009 is not only to teach them techniques of the jewellery trade but to look at their own resources and help develop some products that can make and will be sellable to the rapidly growing tourist trade.

I now have another passionate person joining me in going to Project Wat Opot . Marijke Lups is an Arts and Crafts teacher in Chirstchurch New Zealand and is completely and utterly inspired about what is happening at Wat Opot as I was when I first read about Wat Opot.
We fly out for Cambodia from New Zealand on the 13th July 2009 and will be at the project for about 5 weeks. While there we will be teaching our skills of Art and crafts and how to be creativily resourceful with what resources they have to make some stunning jewelly and Craft products.

Follow my journey with Wat Opot ...read the posts I have added below to keep you updated.
Check out their Wat Opot's new website and be inspired yourself
http://www.watopot.org/