Job is scarce in developing countries, especially in the rural area. Many worked as farmers in Prey Veng and their rice crops only yield once a year. Our Hope Training Centre aimed to create jobs during the non-harvesting season. Buy our products and you can create employment for these villagers.
The Most Challenging Year in our Ten Year History
This year will be the most challenging year as several doors and projects have opened up. After two years struggling to register Operation Hope Foundation as a charity in Thailand, we finally got our approval in Nov 2011. With the support of Bangkok YMCA and in particular Khun Wichian, we are starting an 80-children orphanage in Pong Pa, Phitsanulok, Thailand. Our plan is to renovate the existing houses to get the orphanage running and build new dormitories and classrooms for our CASE Training Program in Nov 2012.We have identified a 300,000 sq ft land and is waiting for the sellers to confirm their price. Finally, after five years we can move to a proper facility in Pokara, Nepal. The first phase will be a 120-children orphanage and phase 2 will be a hotel that will provide jobs and income. We are terribly excited about the new plans as the 37 children have lived in cramped quarters the past 8 years.Our CASE program finishes this March 2012 and we believe the feedback from the 26 students will be positive. In three months they have gone from adults with almost zero computer literacy to be able to design posters, edit videos, set up a web site and master how to use pivot tables in Excel. They are more confident in speaking English and the start we have given them allows them to learn more themselves.All these projects are to change lives, to give hope and opportunity to break the poverty cycle. The new projects in Nepal and Thailand will allow us to help more people. It is such an unfair world and there is so much that we can and should do.




