(Cambodia AIDS Project)
Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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Contributions: Brahmavihara/Cambodia AIDS Project is a project of Empty Hand Zen Center. Donations through the center are tax-exempt under US laws. Checks should be made out to Empty Hand Zen Center with the notation that they are for the Cambodia AIDS Project (without this notation they don't reach us but go into center funds). They can be sent to:

Empty Hand Zen Center
45 Lawton Street
New Rochelle, NY 10801

PayPal donations through this Brahmavihara/Cambodia AIDS Project website are also tax-deductible. The tax exemption (501 (c)(3)) number is listed in the donations button information. Please do not donate to Brahmavihara through the Empty Hand Zen Center website. Donations to that website go to Empty Hand Zen Center, as they should.


 


Contributions not requiring require tax-deduction may be made through our Cambodian bank account (ask for details) or directly.

We welcome letters and responses at goldringba@gmail.com

In Gratitude
Beth Goldring
Brahmavihara/Cambodia AIDS Project



Finances: We live on dana, freely given assistance, primarily from individuals, and have since our beginning ten years ago. I remain amazed and profoundly grateful for the opportunity this provides us.

Institutional and quasi-institutional donors have included Khane Khane (Samdech Maha Ghosanda’s foundation); Peacefuldwelling; the David G. Lennol Memorial Foundation; Goldman Sachs (employee matching grant); Firefly Mission; UNFPA; WIG; the Silicon Valley Community Foundation; and the GDG Foundation.

This year’s budget includes major necessary increases. Our budget for direct aid, 100% of which goes directly to patients as either money or material aid, has increased dramatically with the workload. The cost of living in Cambodia has also risen dramatically and staff salaries need to allow people to support themselves. Masks for multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis are expensive but we must use them, especially where patients are not adequately isolated. Transportation is also more expensive

Our financial records are open for inspection by anyone who wishes to see them.
   
Estimated Budget for 2010:  
1.        Rent (director pays utilities and part of rent): $1800/year
2.        Telephones and email: $1500/year
3.        Transportation: $3500/year
4.        Salaries, calculated at 13 times the monthly salary including traditional bonuses (Tenure with the project has been indicated in parentheses):  

                Director: $3900/year (10 years)

   Co-director: $3900/year (9 years)

   Translator/Assistant: $3200/year (10 years)

   Khmer Nun: $2925/year (10 years)

   Senior Lay Chaplain: $2925/year (7 years)

   Senior Lay Chaplain: $2925/year (4 years)

   Senior Lay Chaplain: $2925/year (4 years)

   Junior Lay Chaplain: $2600/year (2 years)

   Junior Lay Chaplain: $2600/year (1 year)

   Junior Lay Chaplain: $2600/year (1 year)

                                    Salaries Total:

 $30,520/year

5.        Supplies (including masks for tuberculosis):    

 $4000/year
6.        Direct patient assistance (100% of this goes directly to patients):              $30,000/year
7.        Meditation retreat and training for staff:                                                                                 $2500/year

8.        Miscellaneous (including director's US trip):                                                                   

$5000/year
   
TOTAL ESTIMATED BUDGET FOR 2010                                                       $78,800




The four Brahmavihara (dwelling places of the Brahma or boundless virtues) are lovingkindness, compassion, shared joyousness and equanimity.
All photographs, except where otherwise noted, Bennett Stevens 2005/2006. Used with gratitude.