Ceol for Cambodia - Fund Raising Music Evening

The Ark Cultural Centre in Temple Bar provided the sublime setting for a fund raising music evening ‘Ceol for Cambodia’ on Wednesday 6th of March.

http://www.paxad.ie/ceoilforcambodia
Despite the weather, it was a superb evening of music and comedy against the enchanting stage (designed by Maree Kearns) in the Ark.

Our sincere thanks go to all of the wonderful performers on the evening:

Conor Linehan

Cormac de Barra

Ellen Cranitch

Kevin Doherty

Suzanne de Wrixon

as well as to MC for the evening Colm O’Regan (aka tweets of ‘The Irish Mammy’).


The evening would not have happened without the immense help of the staff at the Ark: Al, Mark, Alexis, Franco, Sulei and Esther.

Photos from the evening are available at: https://www.icloud.com/photostream/#A65oqs3qq4Gip

CTI Christmas Gifts 2010

This year you could give a gift which would make a real difference to a person with a disability.

Give a gift that lasts - with Cambodia Trust Ireland Gift Certificates

€8 will buy a child's school uniform.
€25 will pay for repairs to an artificial limb or brace.
€35 will buy a bicycle, which will help a disabled child to get to school.
€85 will buy a wheelchair, providing mobility and the chance to participate in the community.
€135 will provide an amputee with an artificial limb.
€260 will enable a disabled child to go to school for one year, providing books, a uniform, a bicycle/tricycle and school fees.
€275 will provide a disabled child with one year’s supply of prosthetic limbs or braces. Prosthetic limbs wear out and need replacing approx every year for adults and every 6 months for growing children.
€1,200 will fund the cost of training or employing a prosthetist/ orthotist to fit artificial limbs and braces at the rehabilitation clinic for 6 months.

YOUR DONATION WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

The Cambodia Trust will issue you with a gift certificate with a description of the gift purchased. If you wish to have the amount of the donation printed on the certificate, please specify.

Cheques should be made payable to Cambodia Trust Ireland.
Donations over €250 are eligible for tax relief.

All funds raised will be used to support the work of Cambodia Trust in Cambodia
Please Contact us on Info@CambodiaTrustIreland.Org to help us help others

Cambodia Trust on Nationwide!

We were delighted that in mid November Nationwide, featured a great overview of the work of Cambodia Trust in a recent programme on RTE 1.
The programme gave the background to the establishment of The Cambodia Trust & featured interviews with Carson Harte the founder and first Director of the Cambodian School of Prosthetics and Orthotics and currently Executive Director of The Cambodia Trust and with Peter Carey, MBE co-founder of The Cambodia Trust.
You can view the programme from the link below
http://www.rte.ie/news/av/2010/1115/nationwide.html#

Thanks to Marian Malone and all at MKPTV for bringing the work of the Trust to the attention of such a large audience, the programme has generated great interest in the work of Cambodia Trust

Review of 'The Frost is All Over'

The serene surrounds of the Unitarian Church in St. Stephens' Green was the setting for the production of ‘The Frost is All Over’ on Sunday the 7th of December.
Thanks to the generosity of Ten42 productions the proceeds from the evening were given to Cambodia Trust Ireland.

‘The Frost is All Over’ is a celebration of Irish music and of the ever changing and deepening relationship between musicians and the tunes that they play throughout their lives.
The arrangement is a celebration of the sensual spirit within Irish music. Central to the title of the traditional Irish dance tune, The Frost is All Over, is the ambiguity that either the frost is everywhere or whether the frost has ended.

The evening was a multi-media performance of traditional Irish music, poetry and images with the legendary Tony Mac Mahon (accordion), the superb David Power (uilleann pipes) and readings by Dermot Bolger (one of Ireland’s greatest living writers/poets). This was delivered against a backdrop of still and moving imagery compiled by (none other than our own) Director John Comiskey.

It was a very memorable evening of enriching music, poetry & images of an Ireland long forgotten. The production is due to head to the US early in the Spring & if the reception is similar to that of the audience on that evening they will be playing to full houses each night.

We were delighted to see that the Irish Times gave the performance a great review & we wish 'The Frost is all Over' every success in their upcoming tour of the USA.

CTI Fund Raising Event - 7th December 2008

Ten42 Productions presents

"The Frost is All Over"

A seamlessly interwoven performance of traditional Irish music, poetry and images.

The Unitarian Church, St Stephan's GreenSun 7th Dec @7.30

In aid of The Cambodia Trust Ireland

Tickets €20 from http://www.centralticketbureau.com/

Or tel : 01 872 1122

Tony Mac Mahon (accordion), David Power (uilleann pipes, fiddle and whistle), Dermot Bolger (poetry)

Directed by : John Comiskey tured homage to the music and the musicians"Barra Ó Saghdha, JMI (The Journal of Music in Ireland), Sept 08

"The Frost is all Over" is a 75 minute theatre performance firmly rooted in the traditional culture of Ireland, which is built around solo performances on accordion and uilleann pipe by two of Ireland's finest traditional musicians, Tony McMahon and David Power.

Their thoughtful selection of tunes is interspersed with a specially commissioned suite of poems from Poet and Playwright Dermot Bolger.

The performance is enhanced by a judicious use of still and moving archive imagery.Under the direction of John Comiskey, both the poetry and imagery connect effortlessly with the music and the traditions which moulded them, giving us a captivating contemporarily framed performance steeped in resonances of the past.

A promotional video can be seen on Youtube at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fte3qE6vecc

All are welcome and tickets are also available at the door

CTI November Update

While we did take some time off during the summer, things have been busy in recent weeks with CTI.

In October one of our directors (FMH) went to Cambodia and saw first hand the work of The Cambodia Trust. Thanks to Mr. Nhem Phalla, who kindly gave a comprehensive tour of the beautiful new premises in Sangkat Toul Sangke, which is on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.



Planning is well underway for fund raising projects for early 2009. Our AGM will be held on December 7th 2008, 2.30pm in Dublin and that evening sees one of our first charity event ‘The Frost is All Over’. Many thanks to Ten42 Productions for their support.See details below

2009
The formal launch of Cambodia Trust Ireland will now be held in the Spring of 2009 – Details to follow!!!

CT Ireland receives Irish Aid funding

Cambodia Trust Ireland is initially focusing on working in partnership with ASSERT to empower disabled people in East Timor. We are working in partnership with ASSERT - an East Timorese NGO, which is dedicated to physical rehabilitation and the provision of prosthetics, orthotics and wheelchairs to disabled people in Timor Leste.

With the generous funding of €28,980 from Irish Aid we will now be able to support the capacity building and organisational development component of the Cambodia Trust-ASSERT rehabilitation project in Timor Leste. The project is based in Dili, with a limited outreach programme to two districts outside of Dili.

ASSERT website

ASSERT (Associação Hi’it Ema Ra’es Timor/Association for the Raising up and Equalisation of the Disabled of Timor) is a registered NGO in Timor Leste. It was established in 2003 by Cambodia Trust following a 2 year consultation process between Cambodia Trust, the Timorese Government, potential partners and beneficiaries.

The main aim of ASSERT is to provide high quality rehabilitation services for physically disabled people in Timor Leste, through the provision of prosthetics, orthotics and wheelchairs, to enable and empower them to achieve equal access to mainstream health, education, training and employment.

ASSERT operates out of the Timor Loro Sa’e centre for Physical Rehabilitation (TLSPR), which was the first rehabilitation centre for disabled people established in Timor. The centre includes physiotherapy, occupational therapy, a workshop for production of prosthetic limbs and orthotic braces and more recently, a wheelchair service.

The centre addresses the needs of those disabled by accident or genetic causes, as well as the many people affected by polio and leprosy, Timor Leste having one of the highest rates of leprosy in the world.

Cambodia Trust Ireland aims to contribute to the long-term sustainability of ASSERT in Timor Leste by facilitating capacity building and organisation development initiatives in the senior management of ASSERT and also in the implementation of quality systems. This will be facilitated by two senior Cambodian managers and one highly experienced expatriate manager. The goal is that ASSERT will be fully managed and run by national staff by 2012/13.

This proposal aims to provide the organisational and training support necessary to ensure the smooth transition to local management of ASSERT and the long-term sustainability of high quality rehabilitation services in Timor Leste.

A key objective of the overall ASSERT programme is to train nationals of Timor Leste as Prosthetist-Orthotists (fitters of artificial limbs and appliances). Training takes place at the internationally accredited Cambodian School of Prosthetics & Orthotics (CSPO), which was established by Cambodia Trust in 1994. One East Timorese graduate has already returned to Timor Leste, and two more are currently in training. Four students are also training in physiotherapy and occupational therapy at the Politeknik Kesehatan in Solo, Indonesia. There has been a strong emphasis from the outset on including women and disabled people in these training opportunities.

We at Cambodia Trust Ireland are most appreciate of the funding from Irish Aid (and the Irish Tax payer) and will ensure that there is full accountability for the funding received and delivery on goals and objectives.