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2016 Annual Report 2016 ANNUAL REPORT Prepared by Hargobind Khalsa with Oversight from William W. Morse APRIL, 2017 LANDMINE RELIEF FUND 16217 Kittridge Street Van Nuys, CA 91406 LANDMINE RELIEF FUND One mine - One life Contents Dietos Note .............................................................................................................................................. 1 Landmine Relief Fund Mission ...................................................................................................................... 2 Year Overview ............................................................................................................................................... 3 Financial Reports 2016 2015 Dietos Note o Fiaial Repots Graphs Cambodian Self-Help Demining Work .......................................................................................................... 7 Overview Total Land Area Cleared & Beneficiaries Total Mines, UXOs, and Arms Destroyed Map of Cleared Minefields in 2016 Rural School Villages Program Work ........................................................................................................... 11 Overview Details of Schools Added Goals for the Future .................................................................................................................................... 13 LANDMINE RELIEF FUND One mine - One life Director’s Note The Landmine Relief Fund (LMRF) was started a decade ago to support the work of an-ex-child soldier who was clearing landmines with a stick and caring for kids wounded by Explosive Remnants of War. Aki Ra, that soldier, working alone, cleared where he could, when he could. His original home, a modest group of uildigs alog the Sie Reap Rie did ot eet the eeds of his goig faily of ijued hildren, himself, and his wife. In 2003 I heard his story, traveled to Cambodia to meet him, and started the Landmine Relief Fund to support his work. We then helped him establish a recognized NGO, Cambodian Self Help Demining (CSHD) and gain certification from the government as a recognized demining NGO in the Kingdom. Once CSHD began its de-mining work, it took 6 months to clear the first field of 30,000 square meters of land (3 hectares). It now typically takes us a month to clear 1-5 hectares depending on the conditions of the land. Last year LMRF helped the Rural School Villages Program, a subsidiary non-profit of CSHD, add the most schools in one year that they have ever built, directly providing 900 new students with educational opportunities. RSVP now supports 20 schools in rural Cambodia with supplies and teacher subsidies. The largest donor to the LMRF is the United States Department of State ($300,000 in 2016 and $200,000 in 2017). With changing administrations, and the uncertainty of future budgets, the Landmine Relief Fund is taking a cautionary approach to expenditures and has put a halt to new school construction. Except for 10 schools that need our support in expanding their facilities, no new schools are presently planned. Our primary responsibility will be to clear landmines and UXOs, and it is only through your support that any of this work is done; NONE of this can be done alone. Thank you for your continued support and please remember that the problem of landmines and unexploded ordnance will only go away when we, together, make it happen. Babu William W. Morse President of the Landmine Relief Fund Page | 1 LANDMINE RELIEF FUND One mine - One life Landmine Relief Fund Mission The mission of the Landmine Relief Fund, is to support the work of Cambodian Self Help Demining (CSHD) in removing landmines and unexploded ordnances (UXOs) from Cambodia, help raise awareness of the persistent issues explosive weapons continue cause the people of Cambodia through our support of the Cambodia Landmine Museum, help ensure Caodias futue though suppotig the Rual Shool Villages Program (RSVP) by building and helping to maintain small village schools, as well as, provide support to other projects sponsored by Aki Ra, Founder of CSHD and RSVP, as well as, other humanitarian work as approved by our board. Page | 2 LANDMINE RELIEF FUND One mine - One life Year Overview Financial Reports 2016 For the year 2016, at the time of this writing, we do not yet have an audited financial statement. Hoee, elo is ou peliiay aout of the fiaials fo . Additioally, s audited fiaial statement follows for comparison. Bank Balances Beginning of Year $ 185,315.02 Total Donations Received $ 439,927.92 Funds Available for Distribution $ 625,242.94 Expenses Administrative Expenses Bank Charges $ (1,729.00) Office Expenses $ (4,045.88) Employee per diem $ (17,540.00) Travel Outside Cambodia $ (8,796.18) Legal and Professional $ (7,604.00) Total Admin Expenses $ (39,715.06) In Country Distribution and Expenses in Support of Charitable Goals Contributions to CSHD $ (328,965.38) Contributions to CLMRC $ (46,337.85) Community Outreach $ (3,221.61) Travel in Cambodia $ (1,838.97) Capitol Purchases 1997 Honda CR-V $ (5,500.00) Total in Country Distributions $ (385,863.81) Total Expenses $ (425,578.87) Bank Balances End of Year PayPal $ 12,415.39 Chase $ 199,664.07 Total Balances $ 212,079.46 Page | 3 LANDMINE RELIEF FUND One mine - One life 2015 WEISS ACCOUNTANCY Idepedet Accouts’ Copilatio Report November 9, 2016 To the Board of Trustees of Landmine Relief Fund Management is responsible for the accompanying financial statements of Landmine Relief Fund (a nonprofit organization), which comprise the statement of assets and net assets — modified cash basis as of December 3 1, 2015, and the related statement of revenues, expenses, and other changes in net assets — modified cash basis for the year then ended, in accordance with the modified cash basis of accounting, and for determining that the modified cash basis of accounting is an acceptable financial reporting framework. We have performed compilation engagements in accordance with Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services promulgated by the Accounting and Review Services Committee of the AICPA. We did not audit or review the financial statements nor were we required to perform any procedures to verify the accuracy or completeness of the information provided by management. Accordingly, we do not express an opinion, a conclusion, nor provide any form of assurance on these financial statements. The financial statements are prepared in accordance with the modified cash basis of accounting, which is a basis of accounting of other than accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Management has elected to omit substantially all of the disclosures ordinarily included in financial statements prepared in accordance with the modified cash basis of accounting. If the omitted disclosures were included in the financial statements, they might influence the user's conclusions about the Organization's assets, liabilities, support, revenues and expenses, and cash flows. Accordingly, these financial statements are not designed for those who are not informed about such matters. WEISS ACCOUNTANCY CORPORATION Page | 4 LANDMINE RELIEF FUND One mine - One life LANDMINE RELIEF FUND STATEMENT OF REVENUES, EXPENSES, AND OTHER CHANGES IN NET ASSETS FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2015 Revenue and support Donations $460,747 Government grants 199,200 Interest income 62 $660,009 Expenses Bank charges 1,675 Community outreach 1,800 Contributions to Cambodian Self Help Demining 501,096 Contributions to Cambodian Landmine Museum 3,301 Legal and professional fees 3,787 Office 5,288 Employee per diem 14,640 Paypal charges 2,044 Repairs 245 Travel 16,810 $550,686 Increase in Unrestricted Net Assets $109,323 Unrestricted Net Assets, Beginning of Year $75,993 Unrestricted Net Assets, End of Year $185,316 Page | 5 LANDMINE RELIEF FUND One mine - One life Director’s Note on Financial Reports In 2015, Aki Ra and myself, traveled to USA in late March and Early April to attend meetings with Donors, the U.S. State Department Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, and for a speaking engagement at Center for International Stabilization and Recovery at James Madison University in Virginia. Additionally, we made a trip to Brisbane, Australia to meet with family of a former Donor who left $175,000 in their will. These two trips accounted for 70% of the expenses on travel in 2015 and raised a significant amount of money for the following year. The remaining amount of money spent on travel went to trips for myself and our other employee here in Cambodia to the USA, which we each are allotted in our salaries. William W. Morse President Page | 6 LANDMINE RELIEF FUND One mine - One life Graphs 2016 2015 EXPENSES AS PERCENTAGES EXPENSES AS PERCENTAGES OF TOTAL OF TOTAL Admin Expenses In Country Distributions Admin Expenses In Country Contributions 9% 8% 91% 92% In Country Contributions by Year $350,000.00 $300,000.00 $250,000.00 $200,000.00 $150,000.00 $100,000.00 $50,000.00 $- 2015 De- 2016 De- RSVP 2015 RSVP 2016 mining mining Contributions Contributions Efforts Efforts In Country Contributions $192,941.09 $223,266.45 $313,255.91 $162,565.36 Cambodian Self-Help Demining Work Overview Cambodian Self-Help Demining (CSHD), is a Cambodian Non-Government Organization (NGO) which focuses on de-mining and UXO clearance in Cambodia; it was founded in 2007 by Aki Ra, former child soldier for the Khmer Rouge, Vietnamese and Cambodian armies. LMRF has been working closely with CSHD since its founding to remove landmines and UXOs in minefields of 1-10 hectares of
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