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Corporate Social Responsibility

Asiamalls made their maiden trip to HVPV in April 2010. They sponsored 14 children to visit Singapore during Christmas in 2008. How big the children have grown!
Developing appropriate technology for the poor

Villagers inhale smoke equivalent to 10 or more packets of cigarettes per day when they cook with firewood. OHF solar oven is affordable, improves health and conserve nature.
OHF create better jobs for the poor

Job is scarce in developing countries, especially in the rural area. We started Hope Training Centre to create jobs. Our current projects are making unique homeware and soap. Buy our products and you can create employment for the needy.
Teaching accounting using Excel

Singapore Poly team teaching HVPV children to do simple business financials. Impart skills and impact lives.
Building proper houses for the poor

Singapore Poly team spent 5 days building a new house for a poor woman. Join our community service program to help poor villagers.
Well-drilling Project

A child dies every 15 sec from diseases associated with lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene. Give villagers easier access to life's most basic need.

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Volunteers needed from July - Sep 2010

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E-Newsletter (2010)

About Us

Develop and Design by Maxias

Will 2010 be the bamboo year?

If you plant a bamboo seed for 5 long excruciating years, you will see very little growth and suddenly in the fifth year, it shows up ninety feet in six weeks. Isn't it amazing? Ninety feet is several storeys high, or fifteen men, each six feet tall, standing one on top of the other! We pray that 2010 will be the year when OHF expands like this bamboo tree. Well, here is what might happen next year. We will start an 120 children orphanage PLUS 120 children weekend shelter in Phitsanulok, central Thailand. A new 120 children orphanage in Luang Prabang, Laos where we are anxiously waiting for our NGO registration to be approved. But the big whammy will be our combined orphanage, school and hotel in Nepal.

But these three mega projects are not the only things we will be doing. We hope to see Hope Training Centre expand its income generating projects. From soap to polymer clay crafts to bakery, we want to establish strong businesses so that we can employ some of our children when they leave Hope Village. 2010 will see us working more intensely on our Mind Share program where we develop solutions to help the poor - Solving Third World problems with First World technology. These are not projects that are just a wish list. We have recruited a Business Development manager and a Project Executive with research experience to help us get these projects off the ground. But it is not enough and we need to recruit a Senior Manager, PR, Volunteer Coordinator, Fund Raiser and Finance and Admin Manager.

How will we raise the funds for all the projects and increased manpower? The answer is faith. We believed that as long as we work hard for the right purpose and for the right reasons, God will bring us the resources we need. It is easy to talk about faith but when it comes to act on faith, few will want to do it.

Faith is taking it one step at a time and not worry backwards. We will not worry about funding for Laos until the NGO has been approved and we have identified where our new project will be located. We will not worry about finding the people for the Laos project until we have start building. We look forward and move as fast as we can one step at a time.

Our focus is on the goals, the end results and not on the potential problems. Right now we are supporting 155 children but when all the projects mentioned above are completed, we will be supporting 600 children, an increase of nearly 400%. In addition, our livelihood and community projects will be expanded substantially as well. We are committed to drill at least 100 wells in the next 18 months in Cambodia and double the number of houses and wells that we build for the poor. We hope that our second version of solar cooker will be made in the thousands and given to the poor in several countries. We hope we can find a solution to recycle bathing water cheaply and a method to compost leaves within 14 days.

Walking around the new Orchard Road I see the new Ion, Orchard Central, 313 and Mandarin Gallery. There is so much wealth, luxury and opulence being displayed. As two thirds of the world population continues to struggle to make ends meet, it seems so unfair and so uncaring. We thank our donors, child sponsors, volunteers and supporters without whom OHF would never have been able to do what it has done. We want to make you proud and when we expand and grow, we will become Too Big To Fail! Happy New Year and let us dream of what we can do for those who live in thatched houses, who does not have toilets, running water and electricity and those who lacked access to good health services and education.

Robert Kee, OHF Founder

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