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One Cambodian Village Update 10/1/00 CLEAN WATER FOR CHILDREN IN CAMBODIA will very soon become reality THANKS to your GENEROUS DONATIONS!!!!! I arrive in Cambodia October 5th with 12 water filter units from AQUARAIN.com who has been great at giving us a very reduced price including shipping! This means 12 households will have clean water for thefirst time EVER!!! There is also over a thousand dollars that we will use to build more outhouses, buy much needed medicine and hopefully purchase more water filters later. WHILE I'm in Cambodia donations never stop being accepted and the work never slows down. Donations, ideas and feedback are always welcomed at: One Cambodian Village 131 Liberty St. Fredonia, New York 14063 USA or rattlebonebrain@yahoo.com BIG BIG THANKS to more very kind and good folks who have helped out greatly... 'JUST US' and all those who attended the music benefit at BJ's in Fredonia (THANKS BJ's), Vince Quatroche and The Brown Bean Coffee shop for the Poetry benefit, The folks at Fredonia Credit Union for taking up donations, and to Lynne Allessi for donating a whole lot of dental care items... to all you individuals...the list goes on, so many wonderful people! Update coming from Cambodia next.......loook for it! From, Pete Calanni

One Cambodian Village Update Aug. 30, 2000 NOW AT: www.cambodiavillage.org CLEAN WATER COMING TO CAMBODIA!!!!! With your generous donations One Cambodian Village (OCV) is only $5. from $2000.!!!!!!! That's right! With two large donations coming in recently from The Sheridan Methodist Church and The St. Vincent De Paul Society of St. Anthonys Church, so far $1995. has been donated. ALSO the water filter company AQUARAIN (at aquarain.com) has slashed their price per filter to only $150.!!! AND they will pay the $44. to ship each filter! Very big thanks to Gary and the people at Aquarain! The article about 'Life in Cambodia' which was in the local newspaper, The Observer, really gave OCV much needed publicity. Thanks to Renee for writing a fine piece. Also, this website would never have been possible without the space on the internet donation by Steve & Andrea Wasiura at WAZTECH.COM! We are on our way to putting a waterfilter at each house in Tatry Village, which means alot of healthy children! Thanks for all your generous help and please pass OCV on to your friends! If you'd like to make a small donation, and they make a big difference, please send to the address below. If you know anyone else who I should be sending OCV Update to, please send me their email address at rattlebonebrain@yahoo.com I must Thank these people right now....Linda & Mark Casper, Al and Judy Gavazzi, Dave and Joan Fridmann, Dick & Carmen Gilman (2 waterfilters!), Helen Gestwicki, Tom Woodward, Florence McClelland,Lorna Penny, Gene Andolina, DR. & Mrs, Mitch Burkowsky, Mr.& Mrs. Kusneske, Joe Favata, Mr.& Mrs. Dan O'Rourke, Dave Small, Mrs. Annette Cravens, Mr. Carl Calarco & his golfing buddies, Mr. Edward Lugwig, Jeanne McManus, Eric & Eun-Jean Kim-Keenan, The Dunkirk-Fredonia Center for Peace & Justice, Jeff Farnham, Lucy from Rochester, Dave & Mary Fridmann! Blessings.

Re: PREGNANT Aug. 3, 2000 Dear family & friends, The day after I sent One Cambodian Village Update out I received this email from Cambodia about my wife Sarom. The Cambodian friend who sent it doesn't know about the website or my work there. It shows how relevent this all is. --- sctc <sctc@camintel.com> wrote: DEAR PETE I met Sarom and her Family for today, Sarom is pregnant,Congratulation on having Baby Pete,Are you really happy? But Sarom and Chanty are typhoid but not serious pete Because of water in that village not so cleaned and many mosquitos ,I brought and bought them to hospital but now she is better. Sarom's mother said why do you early to come to Cambodia? Did you save ?Pete the wonderful wife of you is a little bit thin, Well she has a baby, I tell her how to take herself . Kind regards sokhon

One Cambodia Village Update Aug. 2, 2000 HELLO Everyone! One Cambodia Village is extremely grateful for all the positive energy and donations we have received! Since 2 June 2000 I've been in Fredonia, New York where the Dunkirk-Fredonia Center for Peace & Justicegot the ball rolling. These very interesting group of people invited me to their summer picnic meeting and listened to me babble (a presentation?) about One Cambodia Village after which they donated $320...two out houses and a water filter. I was stunned and very grateful. Including their gift and since then, $772. has been donated and nine woven boxes($180.) have been sold. The makers of the boxes will get their money and it will be their first income...(yearly avg. income is $220.) I have 3 boxes left here and would be happy to take orders for more. I will purchase one water filter ($279. ea.) myself which means so far I will be returning to Tatry Village with 3 water filters. We will be building more out houses (3 previously built) when I return and I will bring back some much needed medicine. The long term goal is to supply each house in the village with a water filter (about 30) and an outhouse. These will minimalize disease and sickness. The longer term goal is to build a small clinic and a school in the village. Does anyone know anything about how to obtain non-profit status? This may be the next move. If any of this is confusing please reply to me at this email address. These donations are very appreciated and I am so grateful that everyone has been so kind. Looks like I'll be returning to Cambodia at the end of September 2000. Thanks everyone and please pass One CambodianVillage along!!! Aw Koon Charran! (Thank-you very much in Cambodian language) Pete

News 19 June 2000 HI! I'm back in USA. I brought along alot of woven boxes, bamboo jaw harps and bamboo knitting needles. It'll be quick and easy to get them now. We are working the kinks out of the ordering. A new thing...now we accept checks. For now I will handle the orders. While I'm in Cambodia it can take some time to receive an order because without electricity I have to ride a bicycle 20 kilometers to use a computer. Thanks for your patience. I'm here painting houses to earn the money to proceed with my long term goals in the village. When I return to Cambodia in the fall someone else will handle the ordering in USA. In the four months that this web site has been in existence, three outhouses have been donated (two completed, third being built), alot of medicine has been donated and the purchases of handicraft have created incomes where they didn't exist before.Khluen who makes the bamboo jaw harps & bamboo knitting needles is now in the process of getting materials to build a house for his family of seven children.Ohm Pluoy who makes the woven boxes is repairing her house after ten years of decay, including a roof over the entrance stairs which will keep out the monsoon rains. Thanks to the following people for their donations and/or purchases...Al & Judy Gavazzi, Joan Fridmann, Eric & Eun-Jean Keenan, David & Ann McLain, & Jeanne McManus. Thanks Shelly Dillenburg for your ordering help. Please feel free to write to me with any ideas you might have regarding my endeavors. We are constantly trying to make this work better and any help would be appreciated. Pete

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