Your Cruisebook dollars at work within the Community! (we are not soliciting donations as your book orders finance this) ___________________________________________________________________________________________ . Project 1: A donation of $1,000.00 was made to "The Goat Locker".  This is a specialty website dedicated to the retired and active duty Chief Petty Officers, of the United States Navy.  You can visit the website at http://www.goatlocker.org  Once there, you will find lots of useful CPO/Navy information and useful links. There are over 40,000 member Chiefs within the database. Lots of other CPO related information including graphics, cartoons, retirement info, dining-in info and much more.  Completed December 2007 ___________________________________________________________________________________________ . Project 2: Toilet facilities for the local Grade School in a rural Thai Village called Landokmai (Land of Flowers) in Kamphaeng Phet province.This village school was in desperate need of adequate toilet facilities for the more than four hundred students and teaching staff. Total costs $1,130.00. Completed March 2008 with financial assistance by the Chiang Mai VFW Post 12074, which you can visit....just ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Project 3: The local Buddhist temple, is in dire need of an exterior paint job.  In light of the upcoming Inaugural celebrations for the Temple, to take place in January 2009, our firm has pledged a total of $1,500 toward the painting of the exterior of the facility . ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Our next project: A donation is to be made to Father Joe Maier's Orphanage located in Bangkok, Thailand.  You  can visit the site at http://www.mercycentre.org   We hope to make a company donation of $5,000.00 by the end of this year, maybe earlier.  Mercy Center is a shelter for street kids, four orphanages, a hospice, a home for mothers and children with HIV/AIDS, a 500-pupil kindergarten, a community meeting place, and a serene haven in the slums with small gardens and playgrounds. Any individual or unit wishing to help, can do so by visiting www.mercycentre.org directly and making a donation in any amount to these worthwhile causes ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Project for 2009: We intend to build a playground for the children of the village where Michelonia exists.  We are now studying materials, potential procurement or fabrication costs and are discussing a potential site location with the local school ___________________________________________________________________________________________