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                                                                                                                       April 26, 2007
PCL HEADER 1Greetings!                                        
Great things are happening with People for Care and Learning! I wanted to update you on what's been accomplished over the last few months. Better yet, I'd love to have you travel with me in one of the upcoming trips so you can see first hand what your donations have been doing! 
We'd like to hear from you. Send us some feedback on our newsletter!                    Dr. Fred Garmon, International Director

PCL First Annual Rally & Reunion

Friday & Saturday, September 14-15, 2007
 
Spend the weekend in the foothills of the Smokey Mountains & Reunite with Friends who share the same passion to help the less fortunate of our world.

Mark Your Calendar's & Set Those Dates Aside                             More Details

PCL PARTNERS WITH CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT TO BUILD MEDICAL CLINIC

The March 2007 team witnessed the ground breaking of a new medical clinic in Kork Thork Leu.  Joining in the ceremony was the Vice Governor of Cambodia & the N Cambodia Medical Director, Dr Dy Bun Chin, including 600+ people from the community. According to Dr Chin, this location is one of the most needy areas of rural Cambodia. The Cambodian government will staff the clinic and PCL teams will have use of the clinic for medical mission trips. The clinic will also serve as a feeding and humanitarian services center. The government of Cambodia donated the land and PCL is funding the $40,000 to construct the clinic. We have already provided $10,000 and need to raise the remaining $30,000. Help with this effort by donating now. Attend the dedication of the new facility by traveling with us Oct 22- Nov 2, 2007! Sign up now for the Oct trip. (pictured are Dr Richard Powel,MD (Tampa, FL UCOG); Dr Dy Bun Chin,MD (N Cambodia Medical Director); Dr Tek,MD (PCL's Cambodian Medical Consultant); Dr Garmon, Brenda Jones,CNM,FNP,MSN (PCL's Intnl Medical Rep), and Simon Valenzuela (N Cambodia PCL Development Director.)

PCL Partners with the United Nations to Supply Clean Water to the thousands of refugees living on the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia.  Every 15 seconds a child dies from lack of access to clean water and the residents of the Tonle Sap Lake know this all too well as there is no fresh water available to them. 

  This project is headed up by Garry and Kay Lentz of Lehigh Acres, FL, a well driller who visited the Tonle Sap with us in 2006.  The UN plans to provide a barge and all the geological and logistical work and the Lentz' are donating the drill rig.   PCL must raise the money to ship the drill rig etc..., est $30,000; a small price to provide clean water to the Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees on this massive and poverty stricken lake.  Help with this effort by donating now.

 
SOUTH CAROLINA PROVIDES FLOATING MEDICAL CLINIC
 
PCL and the Men and Women of Action of SC are partnering to construct a two-story floating medical clinic and feeding center for the Tonle Sap Lake.  The SC-MWOA State Director, Patton Butts, and Missions Director of Calvary COG, Westminster, SC, Gary Burton, initiated this project in the summer of 2006.  The boat is presently being constructed and a team from SC along with a large PCL group are traveling in June of 2007 to dedicate this vital new ministry.  South Carolina has raised the entire $17,000 to construct the boat! Thank you MWOA in South Carolina!  Funds are still needed to resource this ministry and provide staff to live on the boat. About $100 a month will provide Khmer staff to live on the boat.  If you would like to help by funding this monthly need please email us or you can donate now.
ORPHANAGE GETS ELECTRICITY
 

Thanks to Pastor Kevin Wallace & the  Mountain Meadows COG in Ooltewah, TN for raising $15,000 to provide electrical service to our Siem Reap, Cambodia orphanage!  Up to this point, the orphanage has been serviced by a large diesel engine that has been expensive to run and maintain.  This new supply of electricity will not only provide refrigeration and lights but it will also provide security by lighting the mile and half section of road leading to the facility and shining security lights at night. Thank you Pastor Kevin for traveling with us in March of 2007 and leading your congregation to meet this need!

orphan boy smilingDENTAL EQUIPMENT DONATED

Dr. Ken Pilgrim, a dentist in the Chattanooga area and PCL board member, took on the project of raising $16,000 to purchase two much needed portable dental stations. These state of the art stations can be moved from location to location as dentists volunteer their services to the Cambodia area.  Dr. Pilgrim traveled with us along with his two dental assistants, Tina Hixon and Kim Harrison, in January of 2007 and represented the first dental team to travel to Cambodia. Dr. Pilgrim plans to take two dental teams every year.  If you are a dental professional and would like to travel on one of these teams, please contact our office for more details.

Garmons in Phnom Penh 
We want to Thank You for Partnering With Us
to Continue the Work in the 10/40 Window.
 
Did you know that less than
3% of All Giving Goes to the 10/40 Window?
This area represents only one-third of the Earth's land
but it is where almost two-thirds of the world's population reside.
10/40 window map
 
The majority of the world's poorest people-
some 80 percent-live here. Won't you help us help them?

What if People for Care and Learning earned a penny every time you searched the Internet? Well, now we can!

 

GoodSearch.com is a new search engine that donates a penny per search to the charity you designate and it's powered by Yahoo so you get great results. GoodSearch: You Search...We Give! 

 

Just go to www.goodsearch.com and enter -- People for Care and Learning-- as the charity you want to support.  Download the Toolbar to Remind You to Use it. 

 

If 250 of us search eight times a day, we will raise about $7300 in a year without anyone spending a dime!

Sign Up for an Upcoming Trip
 

Bangkok Floating MktOur June 2007 and Jan 2008 trips are full.

The next available trips are
Oct 22 - Nov 2, 2007 and March 31 - April 11, 2008
Sign up here.
 
We take approx 6 trips a year and each one has 15 to 35 people. Around 175 people will travel with us this year to Southeast Asia.  You should join us!