Annual report 2009/2010 association basmati

ANNuAl rePOrT 2009/2010association basmati

AuTHeNTIC

A girl in front of a housing development in

New Andoung, Cambodia. Five years ago,

people were moved here from the capital

city Phnom Penh in a forced eviction.

Development aid starts at the bottom. It’s not that weare against huge supranational organizations, we justthink that there are more efficient ways to build a betterfuture for all – humans, animals, nature.

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While I’m writing these lines for the double annual report

2009/2010 of the associtation basmati we are about to «cele-

brate» the third birthday of our organisation. We’re not really

celebrating it, but we look back in pride at what we achieved in

the last couple of years, especially during the last months.

By now, basmati – authentic help evolved to something we

think is worth promoting and advertising on a bigger scale.

That’s why we intensified our mission to get new supporters

beginning with the last months of 2010. And it was a success:

In December 2010 we welcomed our first official supporting

members. And also te the rest of 2010 was a successful year

for the association. However, after three years still, we are at the

beginning of a long journey.

A long journey, sure. But we’re confident that we are on the

right track. Of course we hope you will be travelling with us in

the future.

A very warm thank you for your ongoing support!

raphaël Surber

Director and founder basmati – authentic help

February 2011

AnnuAl report 2009/2010eDITOrAl

The big final at a book party from Big Brother

Mouse – every pupil gets his own (first) book.

And there are plenty to chose from.

2009 was a year of contrasts for association basmati: on the one

hand, it was an exciting, eventful and exciting year in Southeast

Asia, on the other hand it remained relatively calm back home.

Due to personal commitments in private and professional life

there just wasn’t enough time to care intensely about basmati.

Also, the year had started with a tragic message:

Nader ebrahimi, the restless founder and director of Aziza‘s

Place and Motomedix (and a good friend from the very first

days of basmati - authentic help), died unexpectedly in an

accident. Fortunately Alexandra robbins, a volunteer from the

early beginnings of Aziza’s Place, took over and looked after the

place very well and with lots of love.

Most of the projects we visited in 2009 were a premiere to us,

or at least not we were not too familiar with them:

CHIBODIA (CAMBODIA)

At our first meeting in 2008, Sam Pehlke from Chibodia took us

on a ride to udong to show the school he was building there,

almost out of nothing. 2009 it was the even newer children’s

home he founded in Phnom Penh he wanted to show us. We

saw a place set up with so much empathy and love, perfection

and pragmatism, we could only smile all the way long. It see-

med almost as if Sam, a friend of Nader, would carry on Nader’s

eagerness: after all, they were co-founders of the mobile clinic

Motomedix.

FuTure CAMBODIA FuND (CAMBODIA)

The organisation that ran the Happy Garden Center at the relo-

cation site Andoung weren’t on the lucky side in 2009. The last

woman standing, Penny rickard, had to give up the place later

in 2009 because of a lack of money. But by now new, stronger

structures are built in Andoung (see our review 2010).

BIG BrOTHer MOuSe (lAO PDr)

We knew it from the very start: We would instantly fall in love

with Big Brother Mouse! A year ago Tony Fish from FSD lao

showed us their bookstore in Vientiane. Officially, BBM isn’t

just another NGO in laos, it’s a publisher with a lao owner.

They publish loads of books for reading, writing, playing and

drawing – in a country where hardly any child has ever seen

a coloured book, not to speak of owning one. The books are

given away during so called book parties. We had the great

honor to attend one in the luang Prabang area – and let me tell

you: It was a pure pleasure!

C.O.P.e. (lAO PDr)

C.O.P.e. is an orthopedy center in Vientiane, the capital city

of lao. Victims of bombies, mines but also traffic and other

accidents can apply for a free prostethic at C.O.P.e. Besides

that, C.O.P.e. runs a bizarre museum that explains almost every-

thing about the tragic heritage of laos: the tons of thousands of

bombs still laying beneath the ground.

CHIlD’S DreAM (THAIlAND)

It was rather a goodwill visit at Child’s Dream in Chiang Mai, an

organisation founded by two Swiss. They are quite big and

well funded, so we do not really have to worry. What we find

interesting about Child’s Dream is the mixture of projects they

run themselves throughout Southeast Asia. They even managed

to set up projects in Burma, which is very difficult. We stay in

touch and hope that one day we can work on a project with

Child’s Dream.

review 2009SO MuCH TO DO, SO lITTle TIMe

For some the way to the first book ever

in laos: Direction sign for Big Brother

Mouse in luang Prabang.

After the book party: The kids bring the

spare books to the school where they

can be swaped.

2010 was kind of the opposite of 2009: A lot of engagement

back home, reduced work in Southeast Asia. We welcomed our

fourth board member in January, Susanne Soo Jin, whos (highly

needed) help is very much appreciated.

With spring time (when some time-consuming private com-

mitments ended) came a refurbished motivation to promote

our oganisation. We enforced the communication on different

digital channels (such as facebook, twitter, youtube, amazee,

flattr, jumo) and gave our website a redesign to adjust it to the

actual content. More information requires a clearer view on the

things. At last we added some articles to our constitution to

enable other people to join in association basmati as a passive

supporting member.

regarding our research activity, it was rather calm in 2010.

unfortunately a lot of meetings had to be cancelled short hand

due to different reasons. But there still were some highlights:

CHIBODIA (CAMBODIA)

Sam and Anne had moved their children’s home from the nor-

thern Phnom Penh area (which was prone to floodings) to the

russian Market area in the city. Their new house is just amazing,

with loads of space for everything, a nice, sandy playground

and huge, inviting stairs to the upper floor. everything the 23

children need is there. Furthermore, Sam told us about the

drainage system they were about to build in Andoung. A very

ambitious project, but a very much needed one – and the

logical step within the mission of Chibodia. This one is set on

our agenda 2011 already!

BIG BrOTHer MOuSe (lAO PDr)

The number of books from BBM ist impressive – as impressive

as the book parties. Although we sponsored a book party ear-

lier in 2010, we could not attend a second one when we were

visiting BBM in luang Prabang (at the time we were in the city, all

schools were closed for summer holidays).

AzIzA’S PlACe (CAMBODIA)

A new roof, a refurbished indoor area and a separate floor in a

neighbouring house for the older boys at Aziza’s Place: Thanks

to Ali and Dan a lot of things happened there since our last visit.

We were saddened to learn that they planned to go back home

by the end of 2010. But we know they left structures that will

endure and thus we don’t have to worry about Aziza’s Place.

review 2010leSS TrAVellING, MOre WOrk TO DO

A sewage system is what lacks

here, but Chibodia works on it

already (between houses/sheds in

New Andoung).

Sports are fun: Besides karate and dancing

classes soccer is on the weekly sports list

of Aziza’s Place (Phnom Penh).

Colourful home at Chibodia’s Children‘s

Home in Phnom Penh.

Our actual course and especially the developments in recent

months let us look forward to an exciting, intense and success-

ful year.

On the one hand, we want to intensify relations to our already

listed projects in 2011. Thus we hope to finally publish all you

need to know about Chibodia, Big Brother Mouse and eDF lao

on our website. On the other hand, we are very much looking

forward to exploring new opportunities. In late 2010 we got in

touch with Belgian organisation Apopo – they let trained rats

search for landmines in Africa and are about to «export» their

fantastic idea to Cambodia. Another interesting issue we will be

following this year is a new and ambitious project of an inde-

pendent information platform in Cambodia. Check our website

later this year to find out more about our progresses.

Another bis issue for 2011 will be getting new supporters for

basmati – authentic help. Our supporter’s contribution to our

mission is extremely valuable. regular recurrent payments give

us a better planning dependability. Should we reach a noble

number of supporters, we at basmati – authentic help will be

able to help better or even support something really big. For ex-

ample we could build a school (or at least a big portion of it).

Again we’re aiming for a donation level of at least 25‘000

Swiss Francs in 2011 – let’s see if we can accomplish this goal

this year. For sure we need your help for that.

ForecAst 2011

On the road to New Andound.

As mentioned previously, we have taken first tentative steps

in terms of fundraising during the last couple of months. Still,

the expenses of association basmati are almost exclusively

borne by the board members themselves. The main part of the

expenses in the years 2009 and 2010 originate from costs for

research trips. Third-party donations and membership fees will

be cumulated for the supported projects or bigger tasks.

FinAnciAl stAtement 2009/2010 (in swiss FrAncs)

INCOMe 2009 2010

Member fees 200.00 650.00

Donations

(board member and 3rd parties) 8‘307.96 10‘580.05

Other income 35.42 21.07

TOTAl INCOMe 8‘543.38 11‘251.12

eXPeNDITure

Travel expenses* 8‘907.02 8‘480.05

Other expenses 132.00 185.00

Donation to projects 0.00 437.56

Promotion & Marketing 0.00 17.70

Other expenditure 802.74 292.75

TOTAl eXPeNDITure 9‘841.76 9‘413.06

Balance to be carried forward -1‘298.38 1‘838.06 * The travel expenses of the association are fully covered by the board

members themselfs.

FinAnciAl situAtion

Finanzen / SpendensituationDa im aufbaujahr 2008 kein konkretes Spendenmarketing betrieben wurde, gibt es über die Spendensituation an dieser Stelle nicht viel zu berichten. Die aufwendungen für das Jahr 2008 wurden fast ausschliesslich von den drei Gründern von basmati getragen. Zu den aufwendungen zählen zum grössten Teil ausgaben für die recher-che-reisen, daneben wurden 2008 aber auch bereits erste Förderspenden an vier unserer Projekte bezahlt.

Jahresrechnung 2008 (in Schweizer Franken)

ERTRAG

Mitgliederbeiträge 300.00

Spenden 20‘506.35

andere Erträge 54.55

ToTal ErTrÄGE 20‘860.90

AUFWAND

reisespesen 15‘236.95

andere Spesen 0.00

Spenden an unsere Projekte 600.00

Werbung & Produktion 1‘373.06

andere aufwände 376.75

ToTal aUFWÄNDE 17‘586.76

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Buddhist mendicants on their daily tour

in the early hours (luang Prabang).

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Annual report 2009/2010 association basmati

Documents

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days of basmati

exciting year

director of azizas place

new andoung

successful year

year of contrasts

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