Pictures from the Silk Fair

A captive audience


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Luca, Chiara & Miriam happy to see each other again

Tabitha Founder Visits Singapore

This week Tabitha Singapore had the pleasure of welcoming Janne Ritskes, the founder and driving force behind Tabitha and her always cheerful daughter Miriam.

Janne was in town in support of the bi-annual Tabitha Silkfair held at The Shophouse and to speak to her many supporters in Singapore.

The Fair is held to enable Tabitha to raise funds by selling silk products produced as part of the Cottage Industry Program, with over 95% of the proceeds going directly to Cambodia.

The Fair is now in its 6th year and it was encouraging to see that even in these difficult times sales showed no sign of declining.

Fund raising in overdrive!

It's been a while since our last update but our fund raising is definitely picking up steam, closely tracking the performance of the stock market since March 9.

Since the last couple weeks, Anvay an his friends from Gemalto have raised over USD 2,100, with a very generous donation from their company. Together with the donations continuing to come in through our blog and friends we are now at close to USD 6,000, not far away from our goal.

At the same time, we are still looking for fellow housebuilders to accompany us on the trip. With several people not being able to commit, we had to scale down the size of the group from 16 down to 12, so if you know anyone who would like to come along, please let us know - it is not too late.

Great news! We are now close to three houses! Thanks again to your generosity the cash donations have gone up to SGD $ 2300 which is about US $ 1500 to add to the US$ 820.
let 's keep it up! We are almost half way there!

This week-end saw our fundraising efforts increase again! As we celebrated Klaus’s birthday our friends made some donations in lieu of a birthday gift! Thanks to your generosity we raised another SGD $1250 in cash. We have now enough to build almost two houses!
Thanks you to all for your support and big heart only 10 more houses to go.

How to join as a Housebuilder

Having just returned from a week exploring Vietnam, we want to thank everyone for the additional donations we have been receiving over the last week. Every dollar counts!

As we have been receiving many requests for more information about joining us on the trip, we are posting more information here. We are aiming to raise the money referred to in the details through donations on this blog, cash and other fund-raising activities - if you have any great ideas, let us know!

What is Tabitha?

Tabitha supports rural communities around Cambodia. Over at their Singapore Website you can find more about how their self-saving program helps some of the poorest people in the World. Many of you know the previous trips we have organized over the years and how spending a couple days outside your "comfort zone" can help you re-evaluate some of the priorities you might have in your life.