Empower Asia

CHILD SPONSORSHIP SCHEME

Our world famous child sponsorship scheme assisting Burmese boys has commenced. Already we have sponsors. At present of all of our various works, our boys home in Yangon (Ray of Light Home) requires our greatest attention. Currently we have a monthly deficit of NZ$640.

Actually they are very well behaved most of the time.

We have some real cutey young guys that you can sponsor. This means that you really can play a role in charging a young persons life! For $30/month we will give you two young guys whose lives you can track and have some part in shaping.

These young fellas are a poor wee rag tag bunch. I visited them recently at their second floor apartment. You could hear them out on the street! It was only when I was inside that I realised that they were all rote reciting to their tutor lessons that they had learnt at school that day.

Education costs are a major part of our expenses because normal daily teaching at school will be insufficient for the guys to successfully graduate high school. Right now the average age of the boys is pretty young (around 13 years) because recently a whole lot of our older guys have moved  off into tertiary study, the workforce and even into community work amongst the desperately poor.

They are quite cute wee guys who are grateful for their opportunity to excel. One such boy was Zaw Zaw…

Zaw Zaw was born into a Burman Buddhist family in 1985. His father died when he was just 5 months old and his mum died when he was 5 years old.  He was sent to a Buddhist monastery where he was only allowed to study up to grade 4. Following that he had to go live with his handicapped brother. He was so poor that he could no longer study.  So we took him in.  Zaw Zaw now has a theological degree and spends his time assisting the poor within his community. He was one of our original child sponsor kids.

Would like to long term sponsor a couple of boys? Then just email us  at empowerasia@gmail.com and let us know. We will send account details and info on your two boys.

TESTIMONY: Recently one of our supporters, a property-developer businessman from New Zealand, came to observe our work first-hand. These were his impressions:

“I invested two weeks to travel to Asia to see what Empower Asia was all about. I saw 6 homes in 3 countries…. The kids are fantastic. They are so polite and friendly. They are so happy regardless of what they own… I went because I wanted to see that my money and the money that I have asked others to give was being utilised efficiently and effectively. I’ve come home feeling 100% assured that it is. I have been involved with very large aid organisations that also do good work, but Empower Asia is great because it runs so efficiently, not having a large costly infrastructure, and because it utilizes quality indigenous people…. Empower Asia has a formula that works and it’s helping so many kids. But this could be the tip of the ice berg if we can raise more money.”

We would love it if you could financially support us.

We need your support.

Needing your help

Right now we desperately require more funding to grow our projects on. Our success necessitates us requesting more funding. We have more kids wanting to live with us and we have a queue of young people soon to be entering the comparatively expensive field of tertiary education.

If you would like to support then you can online deposit funds into the following accounts or send a cheque to the following addresses:

NEW ZEALAND

EMPOWER ASIA, Bank of New Zealand, 02 0464 0223245 97.

Or Write the cheque out to EMPOWER ASIA and send it to our NZ Office: Box 2334, Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND

AUSTRALIA

c/- Toowoomba City Church, BSB: 034 221, Westpac Bank account number: 915736 You must specify that your donation is for Empower Asia on your WEFT.

Or write out a cheque to: “Toowoomba City Church (Empower Asia)” and mail it to our Australia Office at: Box 2216, Toowoomba, Queensland, AUSTRALIA 4350

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Wherever possible we endeavour to be financially self-supporting within our country of operation. For example, in the three pictures illustrated above, all of our food in Thailand is completely self-sustaining including the wages of our agricultural workers.

We ask for funds only when we truly require them.

Please notify us when you have deposited funds into our accounts so that we can maintain accurate accounting procedures – also so that we can personally thank you. Simply notify us by emailing us at empowerasia@gmail.com

Kindly note that if you make a legitimate error in entering your information or where you, the donor have made a legitimate transactional error then you can contact us to discuss this.                                                                                                   Telephone us at  +64-3-4546511 or email us at empowerasia@gmail.com

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