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Message from Servants Cambodia Co-Team Leader, Steve Tripp:
"Many of you may have read about the tragic flooding in Cambodia at present. So far 247 people have been confirmed dead throughout the country with many more missing. 270,000 families have had their houses flooded and 16% of the nations rice paddies have been destroyed."
 As usual it is the poorest of the people who are most vulnerable as their fragile shacks are often built on low-lying land and riverbanks.
This flooding has also impacted some of the poor slum communities in Phnom Penh that Servants workers live and work in, affecting the lives of our neighbours and friends.
Servants Cambodia will be working together with Mercy Teams International to provide flood relief to many of the families from our communities that are affected by the flooding."
[Photo from Reuters]
Initially this money will be used to provide food (rice and fish) for affected families. During floods food prices increase due to transport difficulties and generally a poor family's response to increased food prices is to buy less food.
Many other costs increase also; in particular medical costs increase as the black flood water causes skin problems and lowered immunity from lack of food combined with more pollution and dirty water everywhere means there are many other illnesses also. Providing food is an important intervention to keep poor families from becoming destitute in times of crisis.
If you would like to donate to this relief effort please contact your closest Servants office. 100% of all funds donated will be sent to Cambodia for the relief effort.
1. Donations to Servants may be made by cheque through any of our home offices, simply noting the purpose of your gift for "Flood Relief in Cambodia". Gifts made in many countries are tax deductible. Contact your nearest office or email us for further information.
2. Donations can now be made using any major credit card, from anywhere in the world and will be processed by Paypal. (PayPal automatically encrypts your confidential information in transit from your computer to ours using the Secure Sockets Layer protocol (SSL) with an encryption key length of 128-bits, the highest level commercially available. You can rest assured your sensitive information will be protected.)
For more information about the charitable status and preferred methods of receiving donations please click on the appropriate country below.
Servants is a registered charity in Canada and issues tax receipts for donations. You can give to the work of Servants by sending a cheque (payable to ''Servants to Asia's Urban Poor'') to our office or online through Canada Helps. If you give online you will receive a tax receipt directly from Canada Helps. If you wish to give on a monthly basis our preferred method is an automatic deduction from your bank account which is set up by sending us a VOID cheque with instructions. This allows us to keep our administration expenses to a minimum. No administration fee is taken out of donations to Servants projects and 100% of your gift will be sent to the field. Servants is a registered charity in the UK. You can give to the work of Servants by sending a cheque (payable to ''Servants to Asia's Urban Poor'') to our office or online through Charity Choice or BT MyDonate. Be sure to sign up for Gift Aid which allows your donation to go even further. If you donate online please send an email to the UK office outlining the purpose for which the money is given. No administration fee is taken out of donations to Servants projects and 100% of your gift will be sent to the field. Servants is an approved 501(c)3 public charity in the USA and all donations are tax deductible. You can give to the work of Servants by sending a check (payable to ''Servants to Asia's Urban Poor'') to our U.S. office. You can also make donations via Paypal or credit card:
Servants is an incorporated not-for-profit association in Queensland. We are presently not registered for Deductible Gift Recipient status therefore cannot issue tax receipts. There are 3 options for giving to the work of Servants through the Australian office:
1. Direct Deposit (contact this office for bank details)
2. Send a cheque to the Servants National office in Brisbane (payable to ''Servants to Asia's Urban Poor'')
3. By Credit Card online through PayPal
You can give to the work of Servants by sending a cheque (payable to ''Servants to Asia's Urban Poor'') to the Auckland office. Alternatively, using internet banking you can make a donation directly into our bank account below (send details via email as well).
Name of Payee: Servants to Asias UP
Payee's Account Number: 02 0842 0096408 00
Bank: BNZ
Branch: Cashel & Fitzgerald
SWIFT: BKNZNZ22
Payee Particulars: Your surname and initials
Payee Code: Country to which you wish your donation sent
Payee Reference: Project
Servants is a registered association in Switzerland with tax exemption and issues tax receipts for donations. We will forward 100% of your donation to the fields. Donations to Servants Switzerland can be deducted from federal tax and the tax of some cantons. Servants Switzerland has signed the ethical code of Swiss Evangelical Alliance.
Donations from Switzerland can be sent to the following bank account: PC 80-2-2, UBS AG, CH-8089 Zürich in favour of CH29 0023 3233 9078 4640 J, Servants Switzerland, CH-4054 Basel |
