Back to School

Hello, Everyone,

We hope all is well with you and yours. All over the world kids are now back in school, ready to learn and improve their minds. In Cambodia, the school year has also started.

K.I.D.S. supports hundreds of very poor children by giving them the opportunity to get an education. Each year we provide a number of programs to assist children and young people to move towards their dreams of a better life. We all know that education is the key to stopping child labour, decreasing poverty and getting better jobs. Over the years we have seen how education not only changes children's lives, it changes their families lives for the better.

After grade 12 some or the students have moved to the city to live with the K.I.D.S. "Smart Kids" program manager and his family and are now attending a very good tourism and hospitality school. It is a big change from the countryside and they will all work very hard to reach their dreams of having a good job.



Other students in rural areas are supported to attend local schools and receive daily English lessons. All education fees, books and uniforms are provided by K.I.D.S., most would have been labouring in the brick factories instead of learning.

Rural kids attend English classes daily and receiving a hot meal twice a week as food security id difficult for their families. All their Cambodian school fees are paid and each evening they come to study under the teacher's house in the countryside to learn.

Every day small children from local villages attend our early childhood/kindergarten education program to learn, play and eat nutritious meals and snacks while their mothers work weaving silk. The kids are number one in their classes when they go to the government schools thanks to this head-start.



We also have kids studying computers and some going to University and we make sure they can get their by giving them bicycles!...their lives will forever be changed thanks to your support. Instead of making bricks they are building better futures.

The students are all very grateful and send their sincere appreciation along to YOU!!!

Until next time,
Adrianne and Rick

Sewing and Saving The Date

Hello Everyone,

Hope all is well with you and yours, as Labour Day and the end of summer draws near. We would like inform you about the start of a new sewing program for 20 more women sponsored by K.I.D.S. in the Chitwan area in southern Nepal.


But rather than talk about the details and hopeful outcomes of this current program we will defer to an excerpt from WELNepal's newsletter about the outcomes of the previous sewing class sponsored by K.I.D.S.

"And since word of mouth gets around faster than internet in the lowlands of Nepal, women are well aware that KIDS first group who trained for 10 months are now, not only saving money by making their own clothes and school uniforms for their children, but some, with an entrepreneurial spirit, are earning money. Instead of neighbouring villagers going to tailoring shops, they are using the WELNepal's graduates for their sewing needs. Some graduates have even been hired by tailoring shops."

"Twenty or more women in a group can make a lot of clothes over ten months of practice. K.I.D.S. 2018 sewing group, generously donated most of the "classroom" clothes to poor families in a struggling village far from theirs. As the photo shows, there are a lot of families who benefited from their sisters' thoughtfulness."We sincerely hope that this generosity sets a precedent for future groups"
 
Proof once again that your generosity which supports education and vocational training programs achieve results as a roadmap to a better life.

KIDS ANNUAL WINE AND WRAP

PLEASE SAVE THE DATE

NOVEMBER 1ST, 2019

People have been asking about our 2019 fundraiser. For those of you in B.C., we will once again be hosting our K.I.D.S. annual Wine and Wrap fundraiser (the 11th one to be exact,) at the Vancouver Island Conference Center (VICC). We will send out another notice when we get our tickets from the printers and are ready to start booking and distributing them in a few weeks from now.

For you in B.C. - We really hope to see you at the VICC 

Thank you as always to everyone for your support that creates opportunity and changes lives.

All the Best

Rick and Adrianne