Tabitha Announcements
Tabitha Cambodia and Tabitha Australia Announcement
14 December 2015
Dear all,
Good morning. It is my honour to send you a message of good cheer today. Tabitha Australia Limited is up and running. I am delighted to let you know that the new organization is now up and running and has a new website.
Tabitha Australia Ltd is a registered not-for-profit company that will raise money in Australia for Tabitha Cambodia. All individuals working for Tabitha Australia are volunteers.
In addition, I am very pleased to let you know that any donations made via Tabitha Australia are fully tax deductible.
The new website goes live on Monday December 14th. There may be some teething problems, so please bear with us. The new website address is www.tabithaaustralia.org.au.
If you do have problems, please email Tabitha Australia at tabithaaustralia@gmail.com .
Any new teams wanting to register for 2016 can do so immediately by emailing tabithaaustralia@gmail.com and ccing us at Tabitha Cambodia so that we can put you on the schedule. A landing page will then be set up for your team and donations then made through the new website. I would ask that all teams already registered to check the amounts listed on your landing page. This is to insure that all amounts are correctly identified.
This also applies to special projects such as building a school.
General donations can be made through the new website to the Family Partnership program. This year our vision is to help 17,000 families work their way out of poverty. The cost is $20 USD – perhaps this Christmas you would like to stand with one or more of these families.
Thank you all for your patience and your grace throughout this past year. We look forward to having you stand with us in 2016.
Merry Christmas and the best in 2016,
Janne
AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM JANNE RITSKES
23 October 2015
As you will have heard Tabitha Foundation Australia will wind up operations in June of next year. Before I outline our future plans and reassure you all that everything will be “business as usual”, I would like to pay tribute to the Board of TFA and in particular to Doug and Jude Quarry. I would like to thank the Board for its hard work and dedication, and the excellent results they have achieved. Doug and Jude Quarry have been amazing stalwarts over the past 14 years. There are thousands of Cambodian families who now have a good life because of the work done by Doug and Jude, and the millions of dollars they have raised.
Today I am announcing the formation of a new organisation that will be progressively assuming responsibility for Tabitha operations in Australia. It will be called Tabitha Australia Ltd., and will be closely aligned with Tabitha Cambodia.
The new organisation comes about as a result of the rapid expansion and the evolution of Tabitha in Cambodia over the last few years.
Tabitha Australia will be fully operational as of July 2016 once a transition from TFA is completed. Please be assured that all funds are secure and all projects will go ahead as planned. I look forward to your continued support, and to an exciting future for all those Cambodians you help.
Any questions you have can be addressed to tabithaaustralia@gmail.com
Janne Ritskes
Founder Tabitha Cambodia
