TASTE THE WORLD, a wine event Wednesday, February 9. 2011 Four Seasons Hotel Ballroom, Vancouver 7:00pm to 9:30pm Individual tickets are on sale now and can be purchased for $65. To purchase tickets, please visit http://www.fwab.org/help_event.php For more information, tastetheworldahc@gmail.com and for silent auction packages visit www.ttwvan.com

 “Taste the World, a wine tasting”, is a volunteer effort of Vancouver and Calgary based Canadian Friends of Angkor Hospital for Children and Canadian Friends of Medical Action Myanmar in partnership with the Import Vintners & Spirits Association of B.C. The night will offer over 300 wine labels for tasting, a silent auction and mini Asian market.

The Objectives of “Taste the World, a wine tasting”:

Raise awareness of the global child… every child has the right to basic healthcare.
The cost is so little to help a child in Cambodia and Myanmar to cover child malnutrition, malaria, TB and HIV. Full treatment at Angkor Hospital costs $28 per child. Medical Action treats children with malaria for a mere $5.00 per child.   
The net proceeds from the event will be used for both operating and capital expenditures.                

Proceeds of the Event to Benefit:

The beneficiaries of Taste the World, a wine tasting will be the Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap Cambodia and the Medical Action Myanmar healthcare clinics in rural Yangon, Myanmar.

Angkor Hospital for Children Fund is registered at Tides Canada Foundation (the umbrella public charity), and is in good standing with Radcliffe Foundation in Canada and in the USA Friends without a Border by the US. Charity Navigator, America’s leading independent charity evaluator, endorses with 4 stars. Founded by internationally renowned photographer, Kenro Izu, the Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC), located in Siem Reap, is a leading pediatric hospital providing free healthcare to Cambodian children. On average, 350 children and their families arrive at the hospital each day. Since opening in 1999, AHC has provided nearly three quarters of a million child treatments.www.angkorhospital.org

Sichting Medical Action Myanmar is registered charity in Amsterdam, operating in Myanmar under the leadership of Dr. Frank Smithuis.  In 1994 he began working in Myanmar (Burma), where he was the general and medical director of MSF Holland supervising a large medical program. Activities focused on primary health care and malaria to reproductive tract infections, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.

MSF was the first organisation to start anti-retroviral treatment (ART) for AIDS patients and was responsible for 10,000 patients on ART, or 80% of all patients treated in Myanmar. MSF also managed the largest malaria program in the country with over 250,000 patients treated for malaria each year. Over the years Frank conducted a number of malaria studies in Myanmar investigating the effectiveness of treatment protocols and insecticide treated nets.  http://www.medicalactionmyanmar.com/