One VOICE Summer Resource Fair

The second annual One VOICE (Valley Organizations In Collective Effort) will be held this Saturday June 2, 2012 9am to noon at Cascade Covenant Church in North Bend (Washington).
Kids Without Borders will participate again with our contributions of products to be distributed at this event.

THANK YOU

for organizing this wonderful community service event.

Photos from One VOICE 2011

International Children's Day

June 1, 2012 is International Children's Day. It is celebrated in many countries around the world. Enjoy images of the children we support in Viet Nam.

THANK YOU AGForestry Leadership

On behalf of the children we serve,

THANK YOU for your donation of $1000

to support Kids Without Borders programs/projects

in Viet Nam.

Kids Without Borders Night in Viet Nam

You are invited to a fun event organized on behalf of Kids Without Borders this coming Sunday at 8pm in Saigon. The wonderful performers/musicians/singers donate their talent and time at this musical cencert and all proceed will go to support building a small bridge for the children in Bong Lai (Quang Binh). The event is a joint effort between Kids Without Borders (U.S) and Viet Horizon Club (VN). Ticket costs 200,000 VND and all proceed will be donated to the ‘Loving Bridge Project).

For more information, please contact us at info@kidswithnoborders.org

THANK YOU ROTARY

On behalf of the families in Chamkar Chek Village in Cambodia, THANK YOU to the Rotary Club of West Seattle for your grant to support the Khmer Village Program.

Report from Peter Royce, Project Manager (volunteer) of the Khmer Village Program.

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Recent activity

Owing in large part to the tire bin donations and clean-up activities, village residents have maintained greater care of the environment to date, keeping areas around their homes mostly clear of litter and natural debris. Congruently, conditions inside homes improved with mosquito free sleeping areas and less intrusive monsoon rains thanks to contribution (from Rotary) of roof panels and treated bed nets. And since our village classes began in January 2011 with Rotary granted school materials, over sixty children have attended, studying English, Khmer, and Math. Every 2 to 4 months, students who attend class regularly enjoy a community day trip to the waterfall, pagoda, beach, cinema, or skating with their teachers and parents, while receiving incentives aligned with project goals such as raincoats, school bags, and badminton sets. In addition to the village classes, five more private school tuition scholarships were recently awarded from donors in the U.S. and Holland, and twelve children unregistered in state school were finally enrolled in October.

Extracurricular activities have included village parents and a local donor developing a now popular soccer field on land adjacent to the village. Skype video sessions with American donors and students, and university students volunteering to teach soccer, badminton, and dance. Last month we hosted two events: we had a village donation and performance event. Children participated in singing, dancing, and musical chairs competitions; then received clothing donated from Kids Without Borders, multivitamins from an individual donor, and school materials from local groups "Khmer For Khmer", University of Management and Ecnomics, and Norkor Khmer School. Back in December, 48 students and 14 volunteers auditioned for our performances at a local school, visited a new beach, then went to dinner.

Peter Royce (center back row) and the children in Cambodia

National Volunteer Week April 15-21, 2012

Kids Without Borders is celebrating National Volunteer Week - April 15-21, 2012. 
You, our volunteers, have helped making a WORLD of DIFFERENCE.
THANK YOU

Meet one of our young volunteer caring for an orphan in the Go Vap Orphanage (Viet Nam).

THANK YOU Volunteers

A Big THANK YOU to volunteers at the Computer Drive benefiting Kids Without Borders on Saturday, April 14, 2012. Special recognition to students from Pine Lake Middle School, Newport High, Eastside Catholic, and Rachael Carson Elementary. And many thanks to the City of Sammamish, our board member Dawn Sanders, and Interconnection.org .