Hand Made Bags on Sale

Hand made bags are on sale now. Some bags were made with vintage kimono fabric. They will be sold at craft show at Wholefoods soon.
You can see more bags at Picasa.
http://picasaweb.google.com/TeamBoravuth/HandMadeBagsOnSale#

Japanese NPO: Kamonohashi Project

Kamonohashi Project is founded in 2002 by three university students. One of founder, Ms. Murata, witnessed children in risk as sex slaves when she traveled to Thailand.
Her stories about these children touched many people's heart. Kamonohashi Project now has a community factory in near Siem Reap Cambodia to provide parents a job and children an education. Factory workers make bags, book cases, and more. Team Boravuth follows their mission and would like to support their project.

Give parents a Job, children an education.

The victims of the child sex industry all have something in common: the poverty of their families. To put it another way: those who don't have the abilities and skills to find employment (and a fair few who do too) are unable to get a job. We try, by offering vocational-training and employment opportunities for the poor in Cambodia, to provide a means to an income for families and in doing so, a measure of stability. A stable income means that a child can go to school, free from the danger of being sold into prostitution. Specifically, we have been operating our PC school since 2004, and since 2006, a handcrafts center. We have been able to provide opportunities for learning and working for many many people. We try to obtain business costs for small companies which enable rural Cambodians to make and sell their products in the city.

http://www.kamonohashi-project.net/english/

Cambodian style Cafe 2Lotus in Tokyo

There is a nice Cambodian style cafe in Yanaka, Tokyo called "Cafe 2Lotus". The cafe owner Manami has been to Cambodian many times and she wanted to introduce Cambodian food and drinks. They sells Cambodian crafts made by local artists.

http://2lotus.com

Craft Show at Wholefoods

Team Boravuth artists, Eriko Takahashi and Yuko displayed our hand made art crafts at Wholefoods, Fairmount. It was such a beautiful summer weekend. Eriko is a book making artist. Her handmade books are very creative and beautiful. She will have another craft show at the end of September.

Sushi Party Part 3: Reached Our Goal to Raise total $1,200

Fleisher Art Memorial event brought Team Boravuth big success!!

Team Boravuth attended Fleisher Art Memorial’s annual event on Sunday, May 31st. Nine artists contributed their unique hand-made art crafts such as earrings, bags, T-shirts, silk screen frames, soaps and more to help raise money for the project. Sales totaled $541 of which $317 will be applied to Team Boravuth’s fundraising efforts.

We are getting really close to our goal to sponsor 10 girls.
We have raised a total $1,016.25 and need just $63.75 to reach our goal!!
Thank all of you very much!

Artist web links:
* Greg Pizzoli (Awesome Screen printed T-shirts)
* Max & Naoko (Film)
* Eri (Beautiful Beads Earrings)
* Chie (dress)
* Robert Fluhr (silk screen flame and cards)
* Yuko (Origami earrings, fabric crafts)

Fleisher Art event on Sunday May 31

Team Boravuth artists and supporters will have hand made art crafts tables at Fleisher's community festival.
We will display beautiful crafts such as bags, origami/beads earrings, hats, soaps, T-shirts, films, etc.
Hope you can join and support us.

Fleisher Art Memorial presents the third annual ARTspiration! — a FREE community arts festival. This outdoor festival will take place between Fleisher's 719 Catharine Street and 705 Christian Street buildings and along the 700 block of Catharine Street. Family-oriented activities will include free bicycle-art stations, free art-making activities, a plant and herb sale, bake sale, book sale, art and craft sale, free performances, and a prize raffle. Neighborhood food vendors will also be on hand selling refreshments and treats for the whole family.