On a roll!

What an amazing few weeks it’s been for CfC...

Friday 27th July- We were joined by a group of passionate volunteers and started doing record sales at the market stall in Adelaide (15 in one day! Then at the WYI leadership program in the evening the volunteers bought another 15!).

Soon with the help of these guys we are going to have stalls in Sydney, Melbourne, Airlie beach and Alice Springs!

Welcome to Tash! – our brand new stall manager for Adelaide and to Tanya! – our stall new assistant who will be Tash’s right hand girl.

5th August - Indira Naidoo joined as essentially a patron for CfC. She is an ex SBS news presenter and now working for www.generationalliance.com, a high level communications consultancy. She wants to help us have a celebrity stall at Paddington markets in Sydney before Christmas, then to get famous designers to design some carpets for us to auction in February and also possibly ask a friend to do a doco on the project!

August 6th - We won the Ashoka Changemakers Ending Global slavery completion against 236 other entries and 5,000 in cash.

August 19th - We were granted another $10,000 toward our expansion plans by a donor agency!!! (Can’t say who until they give us some communications guidelines or something in September)

I’m writing from Cambodia where i’m generally working on expanding the project. Originally I had planned to work more on quality and design (and expansion in the number of families) this trip but as it turned out we separated from our local partner organisation earlier than we had planned (the timing is something to do with their strategic plan that had to be signed by some Ministry tomorrow). So it’s been all about recruitment interviews and office hunting so that we can open our own head office before i leave.

Better get some sleep.. early boat ride from Siem Reap to Battambong tomorrow.