Link for Aid in Myanmar and Cambodia 2014

LINK FOR AID. BRINGING HELP TO THE

UNDERPRIVILEGED AND THE NEEDY

IN MYANMAR AND CAMBODIA

In 2014 Link for Aid continued with its projects to feed and give access to education to poor, deaf and dumb and orphaned children in Myanmar and Cambogia.

In Myanmar we donate and provide basic necessities to the Mary Chapman School for the Deaf. The projects for the Parami Orphanage in Dala include helping to feed the 22 orphans, giving them access to further eduction by organizing regular English classes for them, engaging them in crafts projects and improving their living conditions. In Yangon we also contribute to the running costs of the Kandawgala Hospice for the Aged.

In Cambogia, in the village of Samrong we donate funds to send poor children to school. We have gifted a library and a solar panel to the village school and have given scholarships to the older children allowing them to continue their education in professional training institutes and universities.

Link for Aid brings help to over 300 deaf and dumb children in the Mary Chapman School for the Deaf in Yangon.

The children in the Parami Orphanage in Dala, with their mum Mrs Phyu Phyu, Phillip Couvaras and Coral and the Shangri-La team of volunteers.

Thanks to the encouragement and the training they are receiving from Pomelo, Yangon’s fair-trade souvenir shop, the kids in the orphanage are starting to make and sell crafts like these fabric

purses.

Special thanks to Ulla and her team for caring and sharing!

From a generous donor an electric sewing machine and colored yarns for the Parami Crafts’ Project

Most of the 22 children in the orphanage are involved in the project.

The children are learning to design souvenirs, cut fabrics and stitch and sew.

THE PARAMI ORPHANAGE SUNSHINE ENGLISH CLASS The children have just started their 2nd year of English classes donated

by Link for Aid

The Parami children in their new school uniforms donated by the Shangri-La team. Special thanks to Nandar Aung and to all the team for so generously sharing their time and their ideas about comportment and self-grooming with the children.

In 2013 Link for Aid organized Music for Myanmar, a charity concert in Yangon with pianist Gloria Campaner and violinist Héloise Geoghegan. While there Gloria discovered a talented young 17-year-old pianist, Kevin Yang. Last summer Kevin came to Italy, helped by Link for Aid, to attend masterclasses with Gloria. And now Kevin has received a 4-year university scholarship to study piano in Missouri, USA.

Since 2009 Link for Aid has been helping to provide for the 220 destitute men and women in the Kandawgala Hospice for the Aged in

Yangon.

LINK FOR AID’S CHRISTMAS GOSPEL CONCERT Cathay Pacific with Viaggi del Mappamondo, and Banca Mediolanum,

sponsored the gospel charity evening in Rome with the Gospel World Spirit Orchestra Choir.

Swinging gospels in one of Rome’s most beautiful churches, San Carlo ai Catinari

With Silvia Tagliaferri of Cathay Pacific and Andrea Mele of Viaggi del Mappamondo

SAMRONG VILLAGE IN CAMBOGIA is not far from the magnificent complex of Angkor Wat and the

Bayon Temple

At the beginning of November over 200 of the Angkor Kids’ Centre children and their parents attended the School Opening House Day in

Samrong village.

Link for Aid donated school uniforms and bicycles allowing many of the poorer children in the village to go to school. And from our donors in Milan the school library got a selection of new books. Here with Salin, the head teacher, who received a scholarship for her university studies from Link for Aid.

THE 2014 SAMRONG SCHOOL OPENING HOUSE DAY Link for Aid’s founder Pamela McCourt Francescone, Samnang Chhon founder of

the Angkor Kid’s centre, the Department of Education Representative, the Headmaster of the local primary school and the Headman of Samrong Village.

Pon Pot has a dream

Pon is passionate about agriculture and about his village, Samrong. Link for Aid has given him a scholarship for his university studies in Thailand. He has learned Thai and is achieving high marks in his class. Pon’s dream is to return to his village one day and help improve the lives of the local farmers and his community.

THANK YOU TO ALL OUR DONORS AND SPONSORS AND TO ALL THOSE WHO ARE HELPING US TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO THE LIVES OF CHILDREN IN NEED IN MYANMAR AND CAMBODIA. WE

ARE NOW WORKING ON OUR 2015 PROJECTS, BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP. PLEASE MAKE A DONATION NOW TO WWW.LINKFORAID.ORG