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Written by Helen Glanville
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Friday, 24 November 2006 14:33 |
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LOCAL OXFAM VOLUNTEER GOES ON
CHARITY RESEARCH TOUR OF CAMBODIA
LOCAL OXFAM VOLUNTEER GOES ON
CHARITY RESEARCH TOUR OF CAMBODIA
A local Oxfam volunteer will travel to Cambodia in December to visit the charitys projects and bring back their stories to the local community, in order to encourage more legacy donations from the public.
Cara Law from Woodford Halse, as a Legacy Champion, will raise awareness of the charitys work and encourage people to leave legacies, a major source of Oxfams income, through giving presentations and talks, and providing a link to specialist advice about making a will.
In December Cara will embark on a two week overseas tour of Oxfams work to enable her to talk from her own experience of Oxfams work. Cara spoke of the impending visit, I am very excited to be given this opportunity to tour Cambodia, to see the reality of peoples lives in what is one of the poorest countries in the world and to gain an appreciation of how the work and funding that Oxfam provides through peoples donations and legacies makes a difference. I am expecting that this tour will be both exhilarating and emotional.
Since the end of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979, which most people remember because of the Oscar award winning film The Killing Fields, Oxfam has been involved in combating poverty through teaching local people how to cultivate hardier strains of rice and by organising co-operatives, credit unions, literacy programmes, sanitation and fishing projects. The charity has also played a leading role in emergencies, helping Cambodians to survive annual drought and flooding disasters.
Four Oxfam volunteers, from different parts of the country, will go on the trip to Cambodia in December, this being the first of its kind to send legacy volunteers to visit people in overseas projects to bring back their stories.
To invite Cara to talk to your group or society, or for further information about legacy-giving, please contact her on 01327 264195 or at
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:53 |
