How You Can Help
We so appreciate your interest in helping JWOC. With your initial donation you will become part of the JWOC family. In Southeast Asia the family structure is an integral part of life and everyone in the family, from grandparents to cousins, plays an important role. As a donor you become a part of this family and together we can work to reach our goals solving the problems facing the communities of Southeast Asia. Learn more about the JWOC family..
As an organization JWOC strives to empower donors by showing you the problem and asking you to take an active role in the solution. From getting letters from scholarship students, to organizing fundraisers, to helping with disaster relief JWOC donors are a huge part of the solution. With that in mind we have developed our monthly priority list. This is to highlight the areas we need help with NOW, to help you know where the greatest need is so you can help fill that need and solve these problems. We hope that by keeping you informed we can get the help we need when we need it so together we can empower the communities we work in.
Priorites
August and September 2010: With the beginning of the 2010-2011 Academic year fast approaching, we are actively looking for sponsors to give scholarships to deserving students in Cambodia and Laos. JWOC's scholarship program is a wonderful opportunity for students who have the desire and ability to continue their studies, but lack the ability to pay. As well as a University education, JWOC gives invaluable work and life experience to its scholarship students through volunteering on our projects and a multitude of other opportunities to learn new things. If you are interested to learn more about this project please click here to go to our scholarship web pages. If you would like to sponsor a student it costs $500 per year and we ask for a four year commitment (payable annually or all at the beginning) to see that student through their whole degree. Please click here to make your donation now!
May, June and July 2010: With the construction for the new building covered by the amazing response we have had to our "buy a brick" campaign, JWOC is now looking for help with some of the inside costs for the building. Our classroom wishlist gives a detailed breakdown of the things we need and gives you the chance to choose how you help us. Just over a year after we first started our vocational sewing courses they are going extremely well with 17 students enrolled in the current course. As we look to our second year of this project we are actively looking for sponsors for our vocational sewing classes. If you would like to donate towards JWOC Free Classes please click here. To learn more about what we do in our Free Classes Programme, please click here...
March and April 2010: JWOC is very excited to announce that work has started on a new building at its Community Center location in Siem Reap. The work started on 20th February and the first phase (already funded) is scheduled to finish in the late Spring. In this new building JWOC hopes to expand the size and depth of its projects. We will be able to offer more classes to more students, increase our ability to hold educational workshops for staff and scholarship students, house a new library that will be a unique resource for local communities and offer computer classes in a purpose built computer/language lab.
For the upstairs section of the building we need to raise $25,000. That is 1,000 "bricks" at $25 per "brick". Can you help us by buying two bricks, ten bricks or even all the remaining bricks? We will recognize each and every donor to this project right here on the website. If you donate 20 bricks ($500) your name will be added to a "significant contributors" plaque once the building is complete. If you would like to donate towards this project please click here. To see pictures of the construction so far and to see how close we are to our fundraising goal, please visit our homepage.
January and February 2010: With continued growth in student number and an ever bigger variety of classes available to members of the local community, JWOC is looking for your support with its Free Classes. At the beginning of January we took on our third group of sewing students and are actively looking for sponsors for our vocational sewing classes. JWOC has also recently opened a new Art Class on Sundays and is very popular with a regular attendance of over 50 children! If you would like to donate towards JWOC Free Classes please click here. To learn more about what we do in our Free Classes Programme, please click here...
We know the problems that need to be solved, but its our donors that make it possible. Thank you to our 2010 donors...
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Journeys Within Our Community is a tax-exempt non-profit charitable organization under section 501(c)(3) of the US tax code (Tax ID #47-0953817). All contributions are tax-deductible in accordance with US tax law. JWOC is also a registered not-for-profit organization in Cambodia.
