Dear Hope Givers,

This year, three new Friends of Hope Villages who are teachers, joined the team of ten, to Cambodia. It was their first visit to the village and they were overwhelmed with the experience of village life in Cambodia.

“It is evident that the families in Kampong Speu needs lots of help for shelter, water, food, education and a sustainable livelihood,” remarked the team.

Hope Villages will intensify its efforts in Kampong Speu to extend aid to these needy villagers.

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Dear Hope Givers,

Friends of Hope Villages pooled their funds to make donations to the poor villagers in Vietnam and Cambodia.

500 poor families who were fasting during this Muslim month of Ramadan benefitted from the distributions of rice, oil and other basic necessities.

The distributions were kindly arranged by Ms Ann Phua, Director of Hope Villages.

Please see the attached newsletter that tells you more.

Wishing all of you Selamat Hari Raya

On behalf of Hope Villages Fund Pte Ltd

Arfat Selvam
Director

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For generations, Tonle Sap Lake has supported the livelihood of fishermen who live in dilapidated structures floating on the shore. These fishermen can no longer sustain a living owing to the depletion of fish supply due to overfishing and pollution.

60 years old Imam Karim Aly, a Muslim Cambodian from Pursat Province who owns 100 hectares of agricultural land in Pursat Province wants to help these fishermen resettle. He wants to donate 2,500 sq m (25 x 100) of his new land to each family. Hope Directors discussed with him and consulted Cambodian lawyers on the land ownership.

We expressed, on behalf of Hope Villages, our intention to support the re-settlement of these 100 families and the community development. We agreed to provide two pump wells as a start and to further aid in providing better homes for the families, a clinic, a school, pump wells, water purification and farming.

Three Hope Directors, Ann, Arfat and Noor revisited Cambodia on14 June 2011 for a fact finding trip as part of Resettlement Project Cambodia 2011. They were joined by Ms Saleemah, a Singaporean currently based in Phnom Penh on a UN Women project.

Read more about their experiences as well as their future plans for Resettlement Project Cambodia 2011 in the July 2011 News letter!

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Their mission was to donate basic food essentials to finanically challenged families in these villages and to set up infrastructure for the teaching of the English language to the Vietnamese Cham Muslim minority children.

If you would like to join us on the next trip, do let us know.

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Hope Villages has adopted An Phu village, a Muslim Cham village in An Giang District, on the banks of the Mekong River close to the border with Cambodia. We will be launching  our English lessons to the children in the village.

Do join us on this meaningful journey to An Phu and Chau Phong Villages to give them hope!

Email Ann Phua for more details: annphua@gmail.com

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Programme:

Day 1: 8 June 2011
• Arrive at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• Tour the city

Day 2: 9 June 2011
• Visit Cu Chi Tunnel

Day 3: 10 June 2011
• Depart for Chau Doc
• Visit An Phu Village
• Lunch with the locals
• Interact with the children and students
• Introduce English class
• Visit Orphanage

Day 4: 11 June 2011
• Visit Mekong floating Market
• Visit Chau Phong Village
• Lunch with the locals
• Interact with children and students
• Visit Orphanage
• Depart for Ho Chi Minh City

Day 5: 12 June 2011
• Depart Ho Chi Minh City for Singapore

Arfat Selvam is the Managing Director of Arfat Selvam Alliance LLC, a corporate law practice in Singapore. She has over forty years experience as a corporate lawyer having been at the forefront of the development of the financial services market in Singapore. Her wide array of experience includes mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructures, takeovers, funds raising, financial services, international joint ventures and Islamic finance.

Arfat was President of The Law Society of Singapore in 2003 and was also a former Director of the Stock Exchange of Singapore Limited. She was a member of the Board of the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) and the Company Law Reform Committee, which made major recommendations affecting the companies and securities laws in Singapore. She is currently President of MFPA.

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