Friday, January 22, 2010

Chab Dai News!

We are excited to announce that we now have a bank account in Chab Dai Canada's name!! Although we can't issue tax receipts until our charitable status has gone through at Revenue Canada, we can now at least receive funds in Chab Dai's name! We've decided for the time being that everything we receive (unless specifically otherwise indicated by the donor) will be divided 50/50 between Chab Dai Canada and Chab Dai Cambodia. When we start more fundraising and plan projects that will require specific funding, we may review this, but for now we feel sending the money to Cambodia is a good use of our office here.

In other Chab Dai news, yesterday we attended the premiere of a new Canadian documentary called Avenue Zéro, about human trafficking in Canada. The viewing was followed by a Q&A session with six experts, from police officers to community activists, as well as the documentary director. Both the movie and discussion afterward were excellent. I would definitely recommend seeing the movie, it gives quite a good overview of the phenomenon here in Canada from a human rights perspective.

It's playing at Ciné-Robotique (the ONF) on the corner of St. Denis and de Maisonneuve, every day at 19h00 from today until January 31. The address is 1564 rue St. Denis.

The documenary website is: http://avenuezero.ca/

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