Do You E-Bay?

Now you can support us when you sell things on E-Bay.

When you are listing an item for sale on E-Bay you have the option of donating all or part of the proceeds to a charity of your choice. Now that we have registered with E-Bay's charity partner, Missionfish, you can choose to support the Conroy Rendon Charitable Trust.

Click here to find out more.

P.S. A big thank you to "Tita Dolly" who put us on to this and has already chosen to support us in this way with her E-Bay listings.

Another Shipment On Its Way

Just some of the tools shipped today

It's been several months in the preparing, the collecting, the boxing and labelling but at last we've done it. We have emptied our garage and dispatched another shipment of tools (mechanics, plumbers, electricians and carpenters tools) gardening implements, sewing machines and computers, plus a few sets of children's clothing for good measure (as well as padding around the computers).

The bulk of these (22 boxes weighing in at over half a ton) are bound for the 'Open Eyes Mission' in Cagayan De Oro City where they will be used to set up a workers co-operative in a poor community. Two other boxes are bound for other organisations that we partner with in the same area.

Once again a huge vote of thanks to Tools With A Mission and Aid to Hospitals Worldwide, plus several individual contributors, for supplying the goods and to Gary and Evelyn at Tagalog Balikbayan Services for arranging the shipping on our behalf. We simply couldn't do this without your help.

All being well the consignment should arrive at its destination in early December. In the meantime we have more orders to process so, in a week or two, we will start all over again. Oh well, it was nice having a bit of space in the garage for a day or two!

Manila Typhoon Aid

Over the past week I've had one or two people asking if they can route donations to help the victims of Typhoon Ketsana in Manila through our charity.

Our focus is on long term sustainable projects, primarily around the city of Cagayan De Oro in Mindanao (which is in the south of the country) and we only work through local mission partners to ensure that all the aid we provide makes it through to the intended beneficiaries.

We don't have any suitable contacts in the Manila area however one of our friends, who is a church pastor in Cagayan De Oro, has recommended Operation Blessing Philippines a Philippines based charity distributing aid to disaster victims. You can make a donation by credit card on their website http://www.obphil.com/

Alternatively, if you prefer to make a donation through a UK based charity, you can do so via the Disasters Emergency Committee, an umbrella organisation for 13 major UK disaster relief charities,who have launched a special appeal for the victims of the typhoons in the Philippines and Vietnam as well as the earthquake in Sumatra and the Tsunami in Samoa. However any donations you make through this route will go to all these regions rather than just the Philippines.

Update Sunday 11th october :- since writing the above there have been more tropical storms causing floods and landslides in numerous places including Dagupan City in Pangasinan (Northern Luzon) and Bagguio.