Next year, we will start two large projects. CASE which is Computer, Attitude, Skills and English training program will commence 2 Jan 2012 in Cambodia with an initial intake of 40 students.  The program is for three months which means we will be training 120 students for the whole year. Thousands of students after leaving school have no employable skills and either remain with their family to plant rice and catch fish or work as blue collar workers in the city. Their families hoped that education will end the poverty cycle and allow their children to earn more money working in a company.  With no computer knowledge, unable to speak  English and with little planning, organising, communicating and decision making skills, these young adults often end up in the sex trade and even some other illicit activities like drugs peddling. Yet with just three months training, we believe we can vastly increase their chance of getting a white collar job. Imagine being able to speak and understand English, use Microsoft Office, create flyers and posters, edit videos and insert them into exciting PowerPoint presentations, do basic PC repair and install network and back up drives and printers. They will be taught life skills and learn how to work as part of an organization. We need to buy 45 computers, UPS, LCD monitors, projectors, tables, chairs, beds  for this first batch of CASE students. We need to give these students allowance for food as they will come from poor families. We need to pay for the instructors that we have recruited. We start CASE in faith and believe that we will get the donations needed! Rather than raise the funds and then start CASE, we start and raise the funds at the same time.     2012 will see the start of our project in Phitsanulok, Thailand. We have waited two years for the Thai Government to approve our registration. It came on 7 November 2011. We are planning to start CASE in Phitsanulok as well . We will lease the land from YMCA Bangkok and will need to renovate and refurbish the five existing buildings.  Based in central Thailand, one of the people group that we target is the Isaan people. Living in the northeast of Thailand, the Isaan  forms 25% of the Thai population but remained an impoverished group. CASE will empower some of the young adults to get better jobs and break the poverty cycle in their families. Again we are starting the project and raising the funds at the same time. Below are some photos of the existing houses. We save money by renovating rather than having to build from scratch. Christmas is the time of giving and blessing.  We hope you will help us spread the word around and help us raise the funds we need . We can provide full details of how the funds will be used. Every single cent will be accounted for! Let us bless the poor, young adults in Cambodia and Thailand who are not given a chance to learn skills that can help them get a good job. Coming from poor families, they cannot afford the outside classes in computers or English or these classes may simply be unavailable in their rural provinces. We are excited about these two projects and have worked hard in the past months developing the courseware.