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KIRF gets media coverage in Ventura County Star “Ventura family fulfilling needs worldwide”

KIRF got some publicity yesterday (finally!). Journalist Alicia Doyle wrote a nice full page article about our “KIRF work” that was published in the Communities section of the Ventura County Star newspaper. The article wrote about our “client-driven/ informal aid…

Angela Kirwin
February 19, 2009
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Field Report, Thailand

Field Report: KIRF helping children in Thailand orphaned by AIDS and the tsunami disaster

Thank you to everyone who helped with this most recent KIRF humanitarian relief trip. Our trip was a great success! During this trip KIRF help orphaned children infected with HIV/AIDS, in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand. KIRF negotiated the final legal…

Angela Kirwin
February 2, 2007

Field Report, Thailand

Field Report: KIRF Scholarship Fund for Tsunami Orphans Established

Mission Accomplished! Last month, Mark Kirwin, Co-Founder, returned from a successful trip to Thailand where he established the KIRF tsunami orphan scholarship fund. While in Thailand, he interviewed university officials and met with Senator Mechai Viravaidya, Founder and Chairman of…

Angela Kirwin
June 3, 2006

Thailand

Mark is off to Thailand May 10th for tsunami relief

Mark Kirwin (co-founder of KIRF) is off to Thailand in a couple of weeks. He will meet with several colleges to see about delivering our educational scholarship funds into a scholarship account for Tsunami Orphans at one of the local…

Angela Kirwin
May 2, 2006

Field Report, Thailand

Field Report: Tsunami relief field report: Helping Moken sea gypsies recover from the tsunami after being abandoned on an island

The last few days have been a whirlwind of activity. We had productive meetings with the head of the department of education to set up scholarship funds for the tsunami victim orphans. We decided that the best way to do…

Angela Kirwin
May 15, 2005

Field Report, Thailand

Field Report: Tsunami relief field report: re-building a fish farm co-op, eco-lodge, boats, safe drinking water for a school, medical supplies and the list goes on…

Amazing! Your grass roots support helped us to accomplish so much for Tsunami victims in Southern Thailand. During our short stay, we worked with local villagers and school children, the director of Ranong schools and the Vice-Governor of Ranong, as…

Angela Kirwin
February 11, 2005

Field Report, Thailand

Field Report: Tsunami relief news article published by the Ventura County Star

A local man who survived the tsunami and helped the relief effort in Thailand has returned to the states to launch a fund-raiser to assist areas devastated by the disaster that resulted in more than 150,000 deaths. Ventura resident Mark…

Angela Kirwin
January 14, 2005

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