WOW You want to buy us a gift? Thanks!!!...
What is Crossroads International?
Crossroads is a registered non-profit charity which takes Hong Kong's quality superseded goods and redistributes them to people in need, locally and internationally. http://www.crossroads.org.hk/whatis . Helen volunteered with them in January/February 2005 so she has seen first hand the work they do.
How to buy us a present.
Following is a list of gifts. The idea is that you send money to Crossroads to pay for the gift you choose. They will let us know what gifts people have given.
There are three ways to purchase a gift but only one enables you to receive a tax deduction.
For each method you need to include the following information:
The Wedding of Eric Mylius and Helen Boyle
Guest Name:
Gift Chosen:
If you don't include the information above, we cannot send you a thankyou note!!!
Method 1. Tax deductible gifts by cheque:
Complete the information above and mail it, with your cheque (made payable to "ADRA for Crossroads International"), to PO Box 152, Wahroonga NSW 2076. Include your return postal address for forwarding of a tax receipt. Donations over AUD$2 are tax deductible which means all our gifts qualify for this.
Method 2. Non tax deductible gifts by cheque:
Complete the information above and mail it, with your cheque (made payable to "Crossroads International") to PO Box 152, Wahroonga NSW 2076.
Method 3. Non tax deductible gifts by direct deposit:
Deposit into Crossroads' Commonwealth Bank account.
Account name: Crossroads International
Account number: 062 264 100 46329
Branch: Wahroonga
Please let the Crossroads office know details of your payment by sending an email to crossroadsint@bigpond.com and include the information above in that email.
Gift list:
Following the list is an explanation of the various departments.
Department: Administration
$16 Power boards for travel
$25 Office paper (7 reams)
$33 Electrical adapters for international travel
$41 Contribution to petrol costs (per week)
$53 Use of photocopier (per week)
$74 Print run of name cards
Department: Communications
$16 Digital card reader
$41 Country flag (10 needed)
$49 Cabling for outdoor lights for new façade of Reception building
$49 Circuit breaker for outdoor lights for new façade of Reception building
$82 Conduit for outdoor lights for new façade of Reception building
Department: Goods Processing
$15 One set of power cords, keyboard, mice (many needed)
$90 Container pick up short distance (one way)
$49 Half the cost of hire of 5.5 tonne truck for local pick ups of goods (per day)
$115 Container fumigation (one container)
$164 Local drayage (trucking) for 20' container
Department: IT
$25 PCI SATA II controller that will support Raid 1 for Kazakhstan office
$79 Replacement switches blown up by lightning
$90 Hard disks (200G SATA II drives) for Kazakhstan office
Department: Life Xperience
$45 250 pens and 30 clipboards for tours and Life Xperience activities
$61 Voice care' portable voice amplification units
Department: Silk Road Café
$49 Blender
$49 Sugar & milk supplies per week
$82 Half the cost of menu board signage
Department: Site Maintenance
$8 Gardening gloves
$8 Pneumatic tyres for wheelbarrows
$8 Trowels (4 needed)
$8 Small border forks (4 needed)
$19 Good secateurs
$23 Vehicle maintenance per week per vehicle (7 vehicles)
$33 Grass collectors for mowers
$66 Wheelbarrow
$82 Fire hydrant
$164 Silk vines (4 needed)
$246 Ramp access for disabled at reception steps
Department: TLC
$13 School sweaters for team kids (12 needed)
$16 Art & craft supplies for TLC per week
Department: Volunteers
$8 Airport toll & parking (to pick up/drop off team members)
$8 Tea & coffee supplies per week for offices
$16 Dog food for 2 dogs per week
$22 100 rolls toilet paper
$30 LPG gas bottle for cooking/heating
$32 1000 plastic forks or knives
$36 1000 paper plates
$66 Distilled water (for up to 600 volunteers per week)
$82 Contribution towards lunches for community volunteers (150 people per day)
$107 Coach hire to collect short term teams from airport (one way trip)
$149 Rent/food for one full time team member per week
Department: Warehouse
$9 Warehouse supplies: box of cutters (includes 24 cutters)
$16 Warehouse supplies: box of black marker pens (40 pens)
$28 Bottle of forklift gas
$45 Warehouse supplies: box of cloth tape (25 rolls)
$89 Warehouse supplies: box of packing tape (150 rolls)
$122 Warehouse supplies: stretch film (24 rolls)
General donation (please specify amount)
Explanation of the departments:
Global Handicrafts
Global Handicrafts sells product lines of beautifully handmade items, all of them fair trade, from the nations where Crossroads is at work: Asia, South America, Africa, Eastern Europe and regions located along Central Asia's Silk Road. It is our longing to see people from troubled regions rewarded fairly for their efforts. Our prices, therefore, reflect those found on the world market and the proceeds are given directly back to the artisans themselves.
Silk Road Café
The Silk Road Café is an Uzbek-themed café where visitors can enjoy tasty snacks and hot or cold beverages such as "Caspian’s Cappuccino" or a "Samarkand Soiree". Like Global Handicrafts, many of the products sold in our café are fair trade; producers are paid the full market value and are deliberately sourced from areas where the additional business will improve their quality of life.
Life X-perience
Crossroads runs experiential learning programmes to offer pathways into the battle for survival that is experienced, daily, by billions. Participants “live” that struggle for an hour, a day, or a week by experiencing the pressures of poverty, hunger, cultural constraints, rural disadvantage, and the complex combination of these and other factors that hold billions in poverty. Participants often find themselves, following the Life X-perience activities, inspired and empowered to respond to the needs they see around them in a more appropriate, personal and effective way.
TLC
TLC stands for Teaching and Learning Centre. This is a school for the children of adult team members at Crossroads. Opened in February 2005, it enables families to volunteer long term at Crossroads.
