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Dear Supporter,

As an investor in the Charitable Trust, I am excited to bring you May's report on some of our exciting news as a charity this month.

Im so excited to share the news that GVI Charitable Trust won the full $50,000 from CATechnologies for participating in their voting campaign through GlobalGiving partners scheme! I'd like to thank each and every one of you who voted for us, for your active participation and the promotion among your network. I look forward to bringing you news about our National Scholarship program for disadvantaged Australians over the coming months!

The ‘Conversation Club’ in Nepal - For nearly 2 years now, GVI Nepal has run ‘Conversation Club’ to improve the English conversational abilities of children and adults in Pokhara. We provide fun and exciting activities as well as learning through arts and crafts. Read more

New classroom in Quepos - One of our major achievements last year thanks to donations was the refurbishment of our new room, turning it from a storage area to a fully functional classroom/library. Since the start of the school year this has been utilised with great results! Read more

3rd Annual Raft Race for Rupees!

GVI Cap Ternay will be hosting a raft race to raise funds for the President’s Village Children’s Home. Help them purchases vital items such as clothing and school supplies as well as funding a renewable energy project for the President’s Village!

Thank you for continuing to invest in the GVI Charitable Trust and our projects globally.

All the best

GVI Charitable Trust

Links:

• http://www.gvi.org

Dear Supporter,

Now we are almost into the third month of 2014, it has been good to evaluate how 2013 was for the Trust and where we can move forward in 2014.

2013 was a difficult year for charities around the world but we still achieved some fantastic goals. Our projects in Chiang Mai (Thailand), Fiji, Quepos (Costa Rica), Nepal, Seychelles and Limpopo (South Africa) had their most successful years thus far for fundraising and donor support. We also ran numerous in-field fundraising challenges which were highly successful; our team in Cape Town hiked the 3-day Hoerkwaggo Trail from Cape Point to Table Mountain and raised over $15,000! The team in Mombasa organised a swimathon with the students we work with in the slums to swim the height of Kilimanjaro and raised almost $9000 for school textbooks!

For 2014, we are going to push these challenges forward as well as focusing on achieving more impact on the ground. Our new animal welfare projects from 2013 are moving forward successfully and once more funds are in, we can start getting vets into the communities we work in. We will also be looking to complete more Carbon Mitigation projects where we work; solar panelling for children's homes, recycling and waste disposal for communities as well as water tanks for areas in desperate need. 

Thank you for continuing to support the GVI Charitable Trust, we could not have come this far without you.

All the best

Sophie Birkett

Head of Operations