16th February 2005

Today, we received a letter from Krung Thai Bank concerning our application for waiving of international charges for sponsorship payments to the orphans.

The letter from the Bank's Vice President of Payment & Settlement Operations Office, Mrs. Poungpetch Panadis, informed us that the Bank will "waive completely the inward commission and cable charge for inward remittance" for all the orphans' accounts.

We would like to thank the Senior Executive Management Committee and Mrs. Poungpetch Panadis for their help and genrous gesture and would like to point out that Krung Thai Bank has been the first of Thailand's Banks that have waived charges for Tsunami victims. Who says that banking institutions have no heart?