Giving Back
Grummitt Planning has provided town planning advice to a range of community groups including Parkwood and Gold Coast Rotary clubs, Nerang Community Association, the Sailing Adventures in Life Skills (SAILS) programme in Ipswich, the Commonwealth Association of Planners and various local churches and charities.
We also proudly support a wide range of organisations seeking to make a positive difference in the lives of children and young people, including the Police Citizens Youth Club and Blue Light Discos, Red Frogs Hotel Chaplaincy, Palm Beach-Currumbin Lions Club Children charity, the Mater Children Hospital Foundation, World Vision Child Sponsorship and Scripture Union school chaplaincies.
As a precursor to our ongoing commitment to Ipswich we were one of the sponsors for the special Christmas lunch for the homeless provided by Ipswich Awaking.
CHO is a local Non-Government-Organisation involved in a range of community development, child protection, education, and support activities. In Lieu of Christmas Cards and Gifts, Grummitt Planning, Family and Friends, in 2009 we donated in excess of $300 to the activities of CHO, particularily in support of AIDS victims work.
We are very excited, as in 2008 Grummitt Planning joined the B1G1 Organisation and is now committing to regular support for CHO. How that is intended to work is that for every new commission, we will donate funds to CHO sufficient to train a young woman to be a seamstress or a young man to be a motorcycle mechanic or welder. We look forward to partnering with our clients to see lives changed and give hope and dignity in Cambodia.
We welcome our clients partnership in enabling Cambodian Hope Organisation to help young people gain qualifications and life skills to support themselves and their families and Break the Poverty Cycle.
In March this year, Noel will be visiting CHO to assess how skills gained through Red R training can be utilised in the village development work undertaken by CHO.
Cambodia 2008
Noel & Ghislaine with the two brothers- Vuthy (11) and Vutha(8) - who we sponsor. They have lost both parents to AIDS.
Cambodia Hope Organisation
CHO undertakes many projects, including training in motorcycle repairs, sewing, welding, farming (crops, animals and fish), IT and English; Micro-loans are provided for sewing machines, agriculture,carpet making, storekeeping and others; Support for education, including 'school on the mat', free soy milk for pre-schoolers, establishment of school libraries and school gardens (which also provide meals for the students); Digging wells for remote communities. A new Community campus, to provide a secure home for children (currently 18 in number whose families have died or are unable to look after them) and victims of domestic violence, was opened in 2009 and a training centre to provide alternate skills for women rescued from exploitive situations will open in 2010.
CHO has a staff of more than 50 Khmer people under their director - Chomno-In - involved in deliverying these programmes and assistance to the most disadvantaged of their people. They operate in the westernmost region of Cambodia where the effects of the civil war and cross-border child trafficking are most severe. Headquarters are in the border town of Poipet.
Major donors include US Department of Agriculture, Tear Fund UK and World Concern.
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