This is Anne, currently reporting from Singapore.
I presume many of you have mistaken that Singapore is a perfectly safe country, with no natural disasters and terrorists. Did you know that in the corner, where the government is not looking, there are children crying secretely? Well, it is no exception for Singapore.

Any victim of family abuse, regardless of nationality, should seek and will receive assistance. The National Family Violence Networking System links social service agencies, schools, hospitals and the Police in order to provide multiple access points for assistance. Crisis shelters, medical treatment, psychological support, counselling, financial and legal aid are available to all victims of family abuse.

We recognise that foreign wives and their children may lack local family or kinship support, and deserve extra attention. Social workers at the crisis shelters work with these women to prevent and deter violence, provide support and practical assistance and safeguard their children. Affected children deemed to be at risk of harm will be assisted by the Child Protective Centre.Foreign wives are accorded the same protections as Singaporean women under the project. The Court may grant a Personal Protection Order in situations where family violence has occurred or is likely to occur. Charges may be brought against the perpetrator under the Penal Code for voluntarily causing grievous hurt.

I have been to the orphanage (for charity programme) with Bryan, Jack and Lynette.
Many children looked bright and were bubbly. However in between them, there were few of them who looked solemn and completely desolated. How can we give hope to them? Bryan made fool of himself while trying to amuse them.

They were still not pleased.

We used to go to the orphanage once a week but nowadays under the examination pressure,we are restricted in our rooms, studying and consolidating our knowledge. However, we still would like to bring hope and laughter to the monotonous orphange.

Reported by: Anne
(If anyone would like to hear the prologue of my new story LemonTree, please let me know.)

The book Ever Green

Hello this is Maggie.

I had recently published a book called Ever Green.

It is not a book about the tree 'Ever Green' but it means another story, related to  the term.

If you are interested or want the book, please email me and I will be glad to send it to you.

My email is bambicuty@hanmail.net and please leave your home address.

Thank you.

1# The T-shirt collection

Hello this is Maggie.

Few weeks ago after the first meeting, we had agreed upon collecting T-shirts from schools to be sold in garage sales that open in schools and the local library. So the first act was targeted at Chun Cheon Sung Won elementary school where I attend. Another member, Olivia is also attending the same school, and we met each other for discussions of how to put the plan into action. So we produced a paper that contains precisely what we are planning to do at what time and at what location and gave it to our principle. This is what we handed out.

The Global Children Project

#1캄보디아 학교 건설 프로젝트

2011년 9월2일~9월9일 (조정가능)

참가인: 6-9 안규원  6-3 이지희  6-1 한지인 6-2 김다빈

1_기부 받는 옷에 대해서

 1) 옷(상의, 하의, 신발 모두 가능함)

 2) 옷이 너무 더럽지 않도록 빨아서 주시기 바랍니다.

 3) 너무 낡은 옷(찢어진 옷, 색이 빠진 옷, 늘어난 옷 등)은 받지 않습니다.

 

2_기부 방법

 1) 쇼핑백 혹은 비닐에 옷을 모아주세요.

 2) (학교의 한 공간에 모은다)

 

3_옷이 어디에 이용될지

 1) 학교 바자회에서 옷을 판다. (학교 바자회가 없을 경우 어린이들만의 바자회를 연다)

 2) 공동 도서관의 바자회에서 판다.

 3) 남은 옷은 고아원이나 다른 단체에 기부한다.

 4) 모은 돈은 TGCP 에게 기증한다.

      13살도 세상을 바꿀 수 있습니다.

We visited our principle many times at lunch time or in between breaks so as to talk to him as much as possible and to get his approval of our plan. He gave his consent, saying that he believed that thirteen year olds can make a difference in the world, and he gave us a lot of advice to improve our agenda. We are to spread this plan to the whole school by using the school newspaper, the posters and by making speeches at the assembly. Also, the principle is going to talk to the teachers and is going to put it in the school homepage. Here I whole heartedly thank our principal and my trustful member Olivia. I'm sorry that the paper that we handed out is in Korean, but my school is a Korean school and they don't use english. Soon the T-shirts would be collected and be sold to people for the Global Children Project to help the children. 

If you have a warm heart please email me at bambicuty@hanmail.net to share your ideas about the project or please send donations or any kind of clothing to the following address

Chun Cheon City, Seok-Sa Dong Hyun Jin-Evervill 108-201 South Korea

Thank you