Read the latest from our donors and their grantees. These updates share important milestones that local charitable groups reach thanks to support from Give2Asia donors, as well as important highlights from donors on their giving goals.
April 4, 2008 - (San Francisco, Calif.) – Cecilia Flores-Oebanda, founder of the Visayan Forum Foundation and partner of The Asia Foundation, has received the Skoll Foundation's 2008 Award for Social Entrepreneurship. The award, announced by the Skoll Foundation, recognizes social entrepreneurs whose work has the potential to influence issues throughout the world. Ms. Flores-Oebanda has worked throughout her life to bring public and private organizations together in a positive way to stop human trafficking and to help those who have been trafficked.
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February 29, 2008 - Taipei, TAIWAN - The Lunar New Year is the most important period of the year for all Chinese speaking communities. After a long and exhausting season at the end of 2007, Cloud Gate members, like everyone else in Taiwan, were enjoying their last day of vacation and getting ready to resume work and begin the new year. However, an accidental fire, caused by an electrical short-circuit, devastated the main rehearsal studio of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre in Taipei County, Taiwan on Monday, February 11, 2008.
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January 23, 2008 – (SRI LANKA) - The Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement today announces the opening a new vocational center, which will bring new opportunity to the Batticoloa District of Sri Lanka. The generous funding for the construction of the centre was provided by The Marvell Charitable Fund of the USA and Give2Asia, a US based non-profit organization established by The Asia Foundation to promote philanthropy to Asia. The training facilities and furniture for the classroom was provided by The World University Services of Canada.
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November 21, 2007 - (CHINA) - With a focus on increasing the accessibility of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kwok Charitable Trust is working with The Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine to create three reference books for English-speaking readers. In addition, Kwok is providing Chinese medical students with scholarships to improve their English skills.more
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November 19, 2007 - (Patusar Village, PAKISTAN) - With an average monthly salary of Rs.3000 – 3,500 ($50-58), the families working as bonded laborers, daily wage laborers, domestic workers, brick kiln workers, and sanitary workers in Patasar Village can barely make ends meet, much less pay for tuition and school supplies. As a result, many children lack the opportunity to further their education and are directed into bonded labor. With the help of the South Asia Solidarity Fund at Give2Asia, Providence Society is providing education for 20 children from poor families in Patasar Village.
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September 1, 2007 - (CAMBODIA)- The Sangkheum Center is working toward greater environmental and financial sustainability with the help of U.S. donor Sterling Stamos. The Center, which cares for orphans and children abandoned by their families in Cambodia, has recently installed solar panels to help provide its own electricity.
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August 31, 2007 - (Aceh, INDONESIA) - The December 2004 tsunami obliterated most of the existing government health clinics in Aceh, Indonesia, leaving thousands of survivors without access to medical care. The AIG Disaster Relief Fund, Petra Nemcova’s Happy Hearts Fund, and the Marvell Charitable Fund all worked with Give2Asia’s local partner Muhammidiyah to build three new permanent health clinics in Pidie, Aceh Jaya, and Simeulue in Indonesia.
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August 28, 2007 - (Karnataka State, INDIA) - Modern agriculture in India is quickly becoming unsustainable with a deleterious impact on the environment, driving whole sections of the rural population deeper into poverty and famine. Working together with the BAIF Development Research Foundation, the Deshpande Foundation is supporting socio-economic change in villages of Karnataka state and helping to train the poorest villagers to practice sustainable agriculture, form farming organizations in the villages, and provide poor families with alternative livelihood opportunities.
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August 27, 2007 (Guangzhou City, CHINA) - Guangzhou City has one of the highest rates of migrant workers in China. The children of these families are being marginalized and lack access to quality schools. Instead they are placed into migrant schools that are poorly funded and understaffed. In response, Target Corporation, in collaboration with The Asia Foundation and Sun Yat-sen University, has supported a project to provide 2,500 marginalized children with access to social support and a good education.
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June 5, 2007 – (Hanoi, VIETNAM) – At a press conference held today in Hanoi, Le Huu Trac National Institute of Burns (NIB) and The Asia Foundation launched a one-year project worth over U.S. $125,000 to reduce the number of burn accidents in Vietnam through effective prevention education and development of improved skills for local care givers.
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April 4, 2008 - (San Francisco, Calif.) – Cecilia Flores-Oebanda, founder of the Visayan Forum Foundation and partner of The Asia Foundation, has received the Skoll Foundation's 2008 Award for Social Entrepreneurship. The award, announced by the Skoll Foundation, recognizes social entrepreneurs whose work has the potential to influence issues throughout the world. Ms. Flores-Oebanda has worked throughout her life to bring public and private organizations together in a positive way to stop human trafficking and to help those who have been trafficked.
February 29, 2008 - Taipei, TAIWAN - The Lunar New Year is the most important period of the year for all Chinese speaking communities. After a long and exhausting season at the end of 2007, Cloud Gate members, like everyone else in Taiwan, were enjoying their last day of vacation and getting ready to resume work and begin the new year. However, an accidental fire, caused by an electrical short-circuit, devastated the main rehearsal studio of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre in Taipei County, Taiwan on Monday, February 11, 2008.
January 23, 2008 – (SRI LANKA) - The Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement today announces the opening a new vocational center, which will bring new opportunity to the Batticoloa District of Sri Lanka. The generous funding for the construction of the centre was provided by The Marvell Charitable Fund of the USA and Give2Asia, a US based non-profit organization established by The Asia Foundation to promote philanthropy to Asia. The training facilities and furniture for the classroom was provided by The World University Services of Canada.
November 21, 2007 - (CHINA) - With a focus on increasing the accessibility of 
November 19, 2007 - (Patusar Village, PAKISTAN) - With an average monthly salary of Rs.3000 – 3,500 ($50-58), the families working as bonded laborers, daily wage laborers, domestic workers, brick kiln workers, and sanitary workers in Patasar Village can barely make ends meet, much less pay for tuition and school supplies. As a result, many children lack the opportunity to further their education and are directed into bonded labor. With the help of the South Asia Solidarity Fund at Give2Asia, Providence Society is providing education for 20 children from poor families in Patasar Village.
September 1, 2007 - (CAMBODIA)- The Sangkheum Center is working toward greater environmental and financial sustainability with the help of U.S. donor Sterling Stamos. The Center, which cares for orphans and children abandoned by their families in Cambodia, has recently installed solar panels to help provide its own electricity.
August 31, 2007 - (Aceh, INDONESIA) - The December 2004 tsunami obliterated most of the existing government health clinics in Aceh, Indonesia, leaving thousands of survivors without access to medical care. The AIG Disaster Relief Fund, Petra Nemcova’s Happy Hearts Fund, and the Marvell Charitable Fund all worked with Give2Asia’s local partner Muhammidiyah to build three new permanent health clinics in Pidie, Aceh Jaya, and Simeulue in Indonesia.
August 28, 2007 - (Karnataka State, INDIA) - Modern agriculture in India is quickly becoming unsustainable with a deleterious impact on the environment, driving whole sections of the rural population deeper into poverty and famine. Working together with the BAIF Development Research Foundation, the Deshpande Foundation is supporting socio-economic change in villages of Karnataka state and helping to train the poorest villagers to practice sustainable agriculture, form farming organizations in the villages, and provide poor families with alternative livelihood opportunities.
August 27, 2007 (Guangzhou City, CHINA) - Guangzhou City has one of the highest rates of migrant workers in China. The children of these families are being marginalized and lack access to quality schools. Instead they are placed into migrant schools that are poorly funded and understaffed. In response, Target Corporation, in collaboration with The Asia Foundation and Sun Yat-sen University, has supported a project to provide 2,500 marginalized children with access to social support and a good education.
June 5, 2007 – (Hanoi, VIETNAM) – At a press conference held today in Hanoi, Le Huu Trac National Institute of Burns (NIB) and The Asia Foundation launched a one-year project worth over U.S. $125,000 to reduce the number of burn accidents in Vietnam through effective prevention education and development of improved skills for local care givers.
