Dear Garibaldi Friends,

I just wanted to let you know that the Home Learner's class is doing a joint natural soap fundraiser after the Winter Concert on Thursday afternoon to help raise money for their robotics program and to help build a school for an illegally displaced community in Cambodia.  

FYI, We have been informed while just the Home Learners will do robotics this year, next year the robotics program is expanding and that it will advantageous for the whole school to already have the robotics kits bought.  Each kit cost approximately $300 and our goal is to raise over $990 so that 3 kits can be purchased so each child can participate in hands-on learning.

So, we are selling 4 packs of handmade natural soap from JustSoap.org (1 Peppermint Rosemary, 1 Cinnamon Vanilla, 1 Chamomile Calendula, and 1 Coffee & Milk Scrub bar) for $21.

The price of the soap will be equally split 3 ways.  $7 will go to pay for the cost of the ingredients and packaging.  $7 will go to paying for the robot kits for the Home Learners Program and $7 will be donated  to help build a school / community center in the relocated Borei Keila village.  Please check out the information and videos about Borei Keila below.

You can order online at http://fundraisingsoap.com (there is a local pickup option to avoid paying shipping and then pick up your soap after the concert) or you can buy soap after the Garibaldi Christmas concert, or you can share the above link with your friends or and family or tell all your social media friends buy utilizing the links below to help support the fundraiser from afar.

To post a soap fundraising update to Facebook click HERE...  sign in to your account and repost to your wall.

To send a soap tweet click HERE... sign in, and retweet.

To pin a soap fundraising blurb to Pinterest click HERE...  log in, and repin!

Keep your eye open for the Ernest's Ice Cream raffle  ($2.00 a ticket) at the concert to support the robotics program as well!"

Thank you SO MUCH for your support!

Sincerely,
Wade Pallister
Dad to Sophia and Eleanor


For more information about the difficulties the village of Borei Keila has faced and the good news about what has happened please keep reading...

Construction on the School has Already Started!

The Rock Foundation Cambodia still needs to raise $3000 to put a concrete slab on the bottom of the structure and brick in the walls to create a job skills training center.

Read about the original eviction of Borei Keila in this Phnom Penh Post newspaper article.

or watch it on video HERE.

I visited Borei Kelia for the first time in June 2012, 6 months after they had been evicted and relocated. You can watch me in Cambodia as I share my thoughts HERE.

A video of the original living conditions at the relocated site taken by my friend, Phil, can be viewed HERE...

However, the good news is that my friend Brett Medlin and his NGO, Rock Foundation Cambodia, has been working with the community, donors, and the United Nations, to provide homes, clean water, sanitation, solar lights, and jobs for the villagers as reported in the Phnom Penh Post.

I visited Borei Kelia again this summer and was amazed by the changes, the sense of hope in the community, and the progress of construction that has happened so far. Check out the good news HERE...

Life for Borei Kelia is looking much more hopeful but there is still not a school for the children to attend. Having an opportunity to receive an education is the only way that these children will escape the cycle of poverty. My friend Thyvon explains the situation HERE...