BFA Write-up & Insurance Claims

Thanks Seng!
Looking forward to hearing from you again! You can find more photos here
http://entertainment.webshots.com/album/556383510WLRPiw
Pls feel free to share the photos with Kien.

Regards,
khooky

BFA Lim Bee wrote:

> Dear Mr Khoo,
>
> Thank you for the writeup and copyrights. It is very well written and
> informative. We will definitely put it up on our website.
>
> Yes, we are in the final stage of the claim. The NTUC INCOME will be
> offering $900 for the insurance claim. We are processing the discharge
> voucher this week and will send the money to you sometime next week or
> end of the month. Below is the email from NTUC:
>
> ///Email from NTUC
> CAI YUXIANG & 8 PAXS/TRAVEL DELAY/15.12.06
> We are offering you $900 ($100 x 1 block of 12 consecutive hours delay
> x 9 paxs) for travel delay being full and final settlement of the
> above claim.
> Kindly complete the attached Discharge Voucher and return to us at our
> address below within 14 days so that we can process the payment.
>
> PS: Kien will also like some of pictures of the trip. I will be
> sending the link below to him. Hope it is okay for you and your students.
>
> best regards
> Lim Bee
>
>> Hi Seng,
>>
>> I notice that the BFA website has a short write up on our Vietnam
>> expedition. One of our trip members have written a more personalised
>> account. Would you like to use this version on your website instead?
>> You can find more accounts and photos at
>> http://vsnpccfusionoize.blogspot.com/search/label/Vietnam.

>> <http://vsnpccfusionoize.blogspot.com/search/label/Vietnam>
>>
>> By the way, any updates about our insurance claims?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Khooky
>>
>> P/S) Cam on Gia Vi, for this write-up.
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>> 8 students from Victoria School (Singapore), and their teacher
>> embarked on a 15-day community service cum adventure expedition to
>> Sapa District in northern Vietnam on the 1^st December 2006.
>>
>> The focus of our expedition was to carry out a service project with a
>> primary school in San Sa Ho village about 5km outside the town of
>> Sapa in Lao Cai province. The project required us to spend 4 days at
>> the school to help improve their learning environment. We patched the
>> walls and gave a new coat of paint to the otherwise weather-worn
>> single-storey building with only 4 classrooms. After the patching and
>> painting job was completed, we also helped to set up a small English
>> reading corner with close to 135kg of donated children books brought
>> over from Singapore. Over the course of the four days at San Sa Ho
>> village primary school, we organized games for the Black Hmong
>> children and helped to cook 3 lunches of pancake bananas and meatloaf
>> with eggs and biscuits for kids and their teachers.
>>
>> With the work at San Sa Ho primary school completed, the foggy
>> weather in Sapa coincidentally cleared. This was perfect opportunity
>> for us to go on their 2 day- bike and 3-day trek to villages around
>> Sapa town to deliver food, medicine and stationery to various ethnic
>> minority communities. The 2 days of biking took the group over the
>> Tram Ton pass to Binh Lu over a distance of more than 80 km into Lai
>> Chau province. After biking, we continued our expedition by trekking
>> for 3 days covering more than 100km through weathered roads on the
>> Hoang Lien Son mountain ranges. All the while, we were traversing at
>> an average altitude of at least 1200m stopping only for the night.
>> The purpose of the trek was to bring much needed medication to the
>> outlying Red Dazo villagers of Giang Ta Chai and Seo Trung Ho. The
>> trek was tough on our feet and knees but the mission was a worthy
>> one. The scenery from the mountains was nothing short of spectacular
>> at every turn and the experience was spending in night in their homes
>> of the minorities was an invaluable one. The moonlight peering
>> through the cracks of the wooden walls along with the sound of the
>> stream from a waterfall next to the village house transported us to
>> another time and another place.
>>
>> Overall, we spent a meaningful 8 days experiencing the other side of
>> Vietnam that no one can ever replicate. We felt that our service and
>> sharing have helped the people we met and visited. In retrospect, it
>> was more the sincerity and hospitality of our hosts that have touched
>> our hearts. Xin Chao Vietnam. It is indeed a land ten times more
>> beautiful.
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