Project Report
| Jan 9, 2023
Update Report - January 2023
By Iona Proebst | Project Leader
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Dear Friends,
Firstly, we would like to wish you a Happy New Year! We're looking forward to see what 2023 has in store and, with your help, to continue to support marginalised communities in South-East Asia.
A new year brings the opportunity to reflect on what we want to achieve and to put strategies in place to make these goals into reality. We plan to continue our support at the Koung Jor refugee camp, a community which we have been working alongside for well over a decade. Past projects include solar lighting, weaving centres and English lessons and we look forward to maintaining our support of project coordination within the camp as well as computer classes for the children.
We will also be monitoring the situation in Myanmar, keeping our ears close to the ground in regards to any ad-hoc support we can provide to communities which have fallen through the net of larger international aid organisations.
As ever, we are extremely grateful for your continued support, our work would simply not be possible without the generosity of people such as yourself.
Thank You!
Sep 13, 2022
Update Report - September 2022
By Iona Proebst | Project Leader
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Dear Friends,
We hope this message finds you well.
Just a quick update from us at TBF. The last few months have been fairly uneventful with the exception of having our 2022 AGM and submitting all our documents to the New Zealand Charities Commission. Despite the challenges of the past year we were impressed to see just how much we had collectively achieved over the 2021-2022 financial year. Thank you for all your help, without your continued support our work would simply not be possible.
Besides that we are delighted that one of our good friends Sai Oo recently got married. Many of you will remember him as he was our Education Coordinator at Koung Jor for many years and now has returned to the camp where he lives in a house with his wife. We could not be more happy for him!
Looking ahead we plan to do more emergency funding to organisations that need it most, dealing with both the ongoing crisis in Burma / Myanmar and the fall out from the Covid 19 pandemic.
Thanks again for all your support!
The Branch Foundation team
May 17, 2022
Update Report - May 2022
By Iona Proebst | Project Leader
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Dear friends,
We wanted to take the opportunity to give you a quick update.
Like all of us, our friends at Koung Jor refugee camp have been affected by the pandemic. Luckily there have been very few cases but still they've had to isolate from the surrounding villages and had even less access to seasonal work than usual. We are in talks with the community on how we can help support their recovery from this troublesome time.
In the past few months we've donated emergency supplies to marginalised communities inside Burma / Myanmar. Communities that receive very little or no aid and are effected by the continued fighting.
We've also continued funding the computer classes at Koung Jor and seen just how much of a difference the new computers have made. We are going to keep our computer project open on global Giving for a few more months to see if we can get a little closer to our fundraising goal and enable the community to get a few more new computers.
If you want help us reach our goal, the project linke is here:
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/computers-for-refugees/
With all our gratitue,
Iona and the TBF team.
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