Leigh
Ramsay
322
Wecker Road
Carindale
QLD
4152
15th
May 2013
Dear
Leigh
Following
on from my letters to you of 4th, 7th and 10th
May – all ignored by yourself needless to say! This is your style: Citipointe’s
modus operandi: a total lack of commitment to the precepts of transparency and
accountability. And you can get away with murder (metaphorically speaking) because
none of the individuals, bodies and organizations that should be concerned
about this lack of transparency and accountability (Chab Dai, LICADHO, MOSAVY,the
Australian Embassy and the English language Cambodian press in particular) are not
at all concerned. Citipointe and other NGOs in Cambodia can do pretty much
whatever they like and get away with it.
I
have tried, without success, to publish some photos on my very primitive blog.
I wanted readers (their number growing weekly) to be able to put faces to names;
to see where Chanti, Chhork and their family live in Prey Veng. Chanti, Chhork,
Rosa and Chita (and the rest of the family) are not just generic poor people.
They are a close and loving family, as my film will reveal – the mother and
father distressed, on a daily basis, by the absence of their two eldest
daughters.
I
can, however, attach some photos to this email so that other recipients can get
a visual sense of who the key players in this drama are. I will start, today,
with photos lifted from the screen of my computer (not very good quality) of
the sequence in which Citipointe began, in mid 2008, the church’s magical
transformation of Rosa and Chita from being the daughters of a poor family to
being ‘victims of Human Trafficking’.
(a) Rosa, aged six, sits
with other children who have been gathered together by Citipointe to take part
in a prayer meeting down by the Bassac river in mid 2008.
(b) Chita, aged five,
claps her hands as she and the other kids present all chant “amen, amen, amen.”
(c) Citipointe staff hand out food parcels to the
assembled poor parents and their children.
(d) Chanti receives her
food parcel. She is obviously not familiar with the expression “There’s no such
thing as a free lunch.” She will learn the hard way over the next close to five
years!
(e) Chanti is pleased as
Punch with her free lunch and well primed to accept the next offer presented to
her by Citipointe!
The
photo scrapbook record of what happens next begins tomorrow – the process
whereby Citipointe gets Chanti to sign a fraudulent ‘contract’ and then
convinces her that she has entered into a legal agreement with the church to
retain custody of Rosa until they are 18 years old.
best
wishes
James
Ricketson
PS Any readers who would like to be sent copies of these photos please write to: jamesricketson@gmail.com
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