Radio Australia
17/01/2008
A shipment of donated soccer goods from a New York school has reached a group of Cambodian orphans after being held up for 16 months by allegedly corrupt port officials.
The delivery brings to an end a frustrating 18 months for the students of Public School 261, who gathered the used goods and shipped them off in August 2006.
The equipment arrived in Phnom Penh just two months later - but the mission stalled when Cambodian port officials demanded "fees" from $650 to $1,560 to release the goods to the Palm Tree Institute orphanage.
Members of the group, Brooklyn Bridge to Cambodia, wrote to Cambodian and U.S. government officials and enlisted the help of Senators Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton, who pressured government officials in both countries to intervene.
17/01/2008
A shipment of donated soccer goods from a New York school has reached a group of Cambodian orphans after being held up for 16 months by allegedly corrupt port officials.
The delivery brings to an end a frustrating 18 months for the students of Public School 261, who gathered the used goods and shipped them off in August 2006.
The equipment arrived in Phnom Penh just two months later - but the mission stalled when Cambodian port officials demanded "fees" from $650 to $1,560 to release the goods to the Palm Tree Institute orphanage.
Members of the group, Brooklyn Bridge to Cambodia, wrote to Cambodian and U.S. government officials and enlisted the help of Senators Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton, who pressured government officials in both countries to intervene.
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