SHOP WITH PURPOSE. Each month we'll select and share information about a different non-profit organization that we love. At the end of the month, we'll donate 50% of our profits to that organization.
Our goal is to bring awareness and help to support these wonderful, life-changing organizations.

This Month: FRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER

Their History:
In 1994 Kenro Izu witnessed a child die because her father couldn’t afford $2 care.
World-renowned Japanese photographer Kenro Izu first visited Cambodia in 1993 to photograph the Angkor Wat temples. During his travels, he often encountered ill and malnourished children, many missing arms and legs—a horrific legacy of America’s conflict in Vietnam. After witnessing a young girl die, simply because her father could not afford $2 for medical care, Kenro decided to take action and give back to the country that inspired his photographic journey.

In 1995 he founded Friends Without A Border to build Angkor Hospital for Children.
Friends Without A Border (FWAB) is a nonprofit organization with the mission to provide compassionate medical care to children in Southeast Asia. After years of planning and gathering support from donors, photographers and friends around the world, Friends Without A Border opened Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) in 1999 in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

In 2013 FWAB transferred the administration of the hospital to local management.
Since opening its doors, AHC has treated nearly 2 million children, trained thousands of health-care professionals and was deemed “one of only three essential health-care institutions” in the entire country by a Cambodian health minister. In January of 2013, FWAB celebrated a long-held goal as Kenro handed over a heart-shaped “key to the hospital” to the dedicated staff of AHC, thus transferring the administration of the hospital to local management.

In 2015 FWAB opened the doors to Lao Friends Hospital for Children in Laos.
After turning over AHC to local management, FWAB decided to expand its mission of helping the children of Southeast Asia into another country: Laos. On February 11, 2015, FWAB opened the doors to a new pediatric hospital: Lao Friends Hospital for Children (LFHC), in Luang Prabang. On opening day, the staff of LFHC treated 47 children in its Outpatient Department. In its first year of operation, LFHC treated nearly 20,000 children.