New Life Outreach

I will be flying to Bangkok this Saturday to meet a few companies to see how we can collaborate to help these refugees.

I'll be running around from Bangkok to Phitsanulok to Chiang Mai and may not be able to blog as much as I would like to. But I'll post whenever i can :)

After that I'll be staying to work on the refugee project for about 1 month, so do bear with me. Internet is a rare thing on the mountains.

Please also note that the Christmas Trip is fully booked. We need volunteers for Jan and Feb. If you can afford the time to come alongside us to make a difference. Please drop both myself and ben an email.

See RADION International to know what we are working on :)

The dates have just been firmed up. Each of these trips will aim to bring MILK! to the children. These trips will include a SGD$200 contribution to the refugee outreach effort as well.

Please drop us an email if you would like more details.

eugene@radion-international.org
ben@radion-international.org

January Fund Raising Trip :
25-28 Jan (Fri-Mon)

February Fund Raising Trip :
15 - 18 Feb (Fri-Mon)

You know, its so easy to make a difference but so difficult to convince others.

For me, relatives and loved ones sometimes are the greatest discouragement when you want to do something meaningful. They will come up and tell you how "impractical" these dream are and 1001 reasons why they will not sustain.

In fact, they are right. Its impractical and may not be sustainable. But through impractical dreams, we brought the following :

1600 blankets. 4000kg of reliefs. 7000 cups of milk.

Yes, people laugh at 2 silly young man trying to change the world. Yes its upsetting, but if i stop in my tracks in discouragement who is going to bring blankets to the cold and milk to hungry children ?

Will the practical people take my place and do it ?

Let my impracticality and dreams make a difference to the ones who matter most- The little ones who are on the receiving end.

I would like to mention someone very special in my blog - Pastor Ricky Tan.

This is the man that first brought me to the refugee camp and it was through his encouragement and help that we embarked on our refugee outreach project. Without his help, starting out would be impossible.

Pastor Ricky. Thank you once again for all your hospitality and your kind advices. Thank you for allowing CCOF to support us in our infancy stages and we will remember your kindness even as we go our separate ways !

As you all know, this is likely to be the last Christmas for these refugees before being sent back to Laos.

Deep in my heart I would really like to bring the Christmas cheer to these refugees and more then that, a small gift to each and every child in the camp. Yes all 3600.

To date we have enough funds to buy just 500+ children a stationary set.
So what do we do if we don't raise enough before Christmas ? The answer is simple, we will not have enough gifts for the remaining 3000+.

I'm sorry. But thats the reality and I can only do this much. But with your help to spread the word, I believe that we can achieve this target and bring smiles to 3000 children.

I have a dream which I've kept in my heart for almost 12 years now.

Since I was 15, I held a dream, a dream to reach out to people without hope. People who have nothing to fall back on and nothing to live for.

Sometimes in our Christian walk and we are just too image/reputation conscious. We are scared to be seen at Geylang(Red Light District) for the fear of being seen among prostitutes, drug addicts and the likes.

In fact, these are the people who need God the most. I believe that God can perform miracles in their lives today. I'm a living testimony to that.


My dream ? To build a centre to bring delinquents, destitute, prostitutes, gangsters, drug addicts, HIV children and the likes.... to bring them all in and care for them. For there is no greater joy then to see lives transformed and changed by God.

I see this refugee outreach in a similar light. And truly, there is no greater joy !

We are working to obtain a a charity status and we've been working on it for quite some time but its a challenge in view of all the red tapes, more so when funds collected are transfered a cause in another country.

Some close friends are telling me to keep RADION as a business so funds can reach the refugees and not be caught in the paperwork.

Yes. For the moment RADION International is a business, but its a business with a heart.
Now, I'm not going to put a tag and say "Some profit will be channeled to XXX cause", I'm going to be upfront, transparent and be totally un-businesslike.

This is my assurance ! ALL our earnings will be used prudently to better someone's life !