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Kitchen and bathroom renewal

Patricia Oliver is organizing this fundraiser.
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Due to the great success of this fundraising project and the great interest shown by people from all over the globe, we have decided to let our dreams go a bit further and try and raise a bit more money so that we can fix not only the toilets but also the kitchen area.

I am more than satisfied with what we achieved so far.. it has go far beyond my expectations. In only 19 days we reached our goal and even then, people still donated more extra money so we would make sure things were done properly and were not very tight on our budget.. This is just amazing! And, again, I really did not expect this was going to happen, cause this project began just as a crazy idea... but, Hey!! It worked!!!!

I have kept in here the original message I wrote for our first project cause I believe it embodies the vision and the enthusiasm behind this fundraising project. 

Now that we have secured brand new toilets for the girls, we´ve thought it would be a very good opportunity to also fix the kitchen area a bit. One of the most necessary things to ensure hygiene standards are met would be to tile the walls of the kitchen. The walls are just half a metre high and made up of concrete blocks. There is also a need for some sort of storage appliances to keep not only plates and pans but also food. At the moment, these are kept just on rusty metal shelves and left uncovered. Consequently, they accumulate dust, dirt and ants camping freely all over the place. Together with these reforms I intend to organise a workshop on food standards so that they acquire healthy habits when handling food. They are very good cooks but, they take certain risks that are totally unnecessary now that they live here at the centre.

I let you now to read our original plight, after which you will have a better understanding of the aim behind this fundraising project. Enjoy! And thanks for you support!! Pat :) 

As many of you know, I am in Thailand at the moment, working as a volunteer for a local NGO. 
The organisation I am working for is called DEPDC and their work involves the protection of local children (especially girls) who may otherwise be the victims of human trafficking. 
You can have a look at their website and get to know their work in the Greater Mekong region.

I am based in the shelter that the organisation has set up for girls in high risk circumstances. At the moment there are 21 girls living here. The centre provides them with everything they need: education, clothing, food, etc. However, as it is often the case with non for profit organisations, their budget is pretty tight and one of the things that struck me the most when I arrived here was the state of the bathroom area. 
I would like to contribute a little bit into the welfare of these girls by fixing the bathroom area. 
There are 4 toilets cabinets but the walls were never painted and the concrete is now covered by a green layer of mold. The squat toilets are really old and it only makes it even more anti hygienic. These 4 cubicles are supposed to serve the girls as toilets, showers, and sink area.

I am not trying to change the customs of this side of the world, I know that things work differently over here and that does not mean that their way of doing things is necessarily wrong.

However, I truly think these girls could do with a separate sink area, where making sure they get into the routine of washing up their hands thoroughly with soap after using the toilet.

Basically, the plan is:

1. Painting the walls with a nice colour paint that resist humidity and maybe get the girls to decorate the walls with nice little drawings.

2.Replace the old squat toilets for brand new ones.

3.Build a very simple long sink structure right in front of the toilet cubicles.

This little job will not only help these 21 girls but also all the future residents at DEPDC Chiang Khong Shelter.

I am aware that the current financial times are not the ideal to ask anyone for money. 
But I only ask you, friends and relatives, to contribute to this cause with just 5 Euros each. I would like to take the opportunity that things here in Thailand are much cheaper comparing to the prices in Europe, and so I´ve calculated that the budget needed to fix the bathroom area would only be 500 Euros!!! Which for Thai people is still a lot of money, but for us Westerners is not that much. 
Of course, even for us it is a lot of money if you ask one single person to donate such amount. But if I could get 100 people to donate 5 euros each (or 50 people donating 10 euros each..) that would make up the 500 euros needed for this project, easily, without asking anyone for a big effort. 
It´s just 5 euros!! 
Please I beg you to join this cause with as much as you would spend for a Starbucks coffee in London, or a beer tapa in Spain..

Please follow this link to make your donation:

http://www.gofundme.com/1pye2c

All of you, not matter if you are a close friend, someone that I´ve met along the way in one of my travels.. and even more if you belong to my family, all of you surely know how important this is for me, how passionate I am about development and especially when it involves women and girls.

I am not a Xmas person, but I would like to ask you to do this little effort now and ensure these girls have a much better year 2013!! (well, here, it´ll be 2556!!!)

Thank you all!!!!

Pat xx

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