Book a massage and support girls education in Vietnam

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Ripple will donate percentage of profits towards a girls education in Hoi An, Vietnam through the CHIA foundation, an Australian charity run by the remarkable Robyn Morley.

It only costs AUD $140 to cover the school fees, additional tuition, uniforms, insurance, text books, stationery and a new bicycle for a girl to go to school for a year.

One of these girls is Sy, pictured right with her father and her new bike, puchased from money raised from guests like you booking a massage. Full details on Sy are below.

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Sy, 11, is the youngest of three children from an extremely poor family. Her father is a casually employed farmer and her mother works in a fish company. The family is one of the poorest in their village earning $1 a day.

The family live in a very basic house built from bamboo and
corrugated iron outside Hoi An. Their possessions are minimal and
include one plastic table, six plastic chairs, one old bicycle, a bed,
a fan and an old television.

Sy had cleft lip and palate surgery at 3 years of age and again when
she was 9 years old.

Sy attends school regularly and has been doing well. Until now she
has walked 10 kilometres to and from school, 6 days a week as the
family only has one bicycle which her mother uses to go to work. We
have now purchased a new bike.

Unfortunately in the 2007/08 school year she was only able to attend
one extra class for two months of the year as she did not have a
sponsor and extra classes are expensive.

In Vietnam, due to the education system structure, children must
attend extra classes during the school year and the summer holidays.
For the majority of cases, this is the only way they will learn all
the information required to pass examinations.

In donations from the massages booked at Ripple has ensured
Sy stays in school and has the opportunity to attend extra classes in
Mathematics, Physics and English.

This sponsorship will meet the costs of her school fees, additional
tuition, uniforms, insurance, text books, stationery and a new
bicycle.