Please Join us on our Annual Fundraiser for 2024
TO HELP RAISE FUNDS FOR:
The Karuna foundation Childrens Fund
On: 25th of August
Venue: Phuong Vietnamese Restaurant
Address: No 87 Willoughby Rd. Crows Nest
Cost: Single $ 80.00
A couple $150.00
Children under 12 by Donation
This year will be a moment of warmth where we can together
Contribute happiness and well-being to those children in need,
While enjoying catching up with friends over a sumptuous lunch
With surprise door prizes and more.
Karuna aspires to make a difference in children’s lives and
provides free stay at our Katoomba Sanctuary.
Children enjoys a range of fun activities in nature such as bushwalking to
a breathtaking Megalong valley view, fun horse rides in the Kanimbla valley
And spectacular scenic rides at Katoomba Scenic World
Supported by volunteers.
Please send payments and donations to
The Karuna Foundation Children’s Fund.
CBA BSB: 062217 Account No: 00907091
Donations over $2.00 are tax deductible.
We appreciate your support.
RSVP by 20/08/24 to Nara 0449 920 635
Fundraising Lunch 2022
Hello beautiful friends,
I hope and pray you've been safe and coping well with Covid-19 challenges.
During the Covid19 restrictions and lockdown, the Karuna foundation could not organise large gatherings. Still, today, we would like to invite you to a fundraising event at the Phuong restaurant in Crows Nest, outside the table settings, on Sunday the 13th of Feb.
Borrowing this opportunity, I want to thank you for the last successful fundraising event at the same restaurant in Feb 2019. We enjoyed fantastic Vietnamese food with Jenny's mum. We raised enough funds to purchase many lotus plants for the Karuna Lotus Pond through events and donations. As you can see below, I captured a pink lotus representing purity, transformation and beauty within
The aim this time is to purchase a new trampoline and paints to brighten up existing play facilities. We had to remove the dangerous old one for the safety of children. (If you are interested in working bee to paint, please join us during the weekend of 19/20 March.)
Please come along with your family and friends to help raise funds for a new trampoline, and have a good time with yummy food catching up with friends of the Karuna community.
Date and Time: Sunday 13th February 2022 at 1.00pm
Venue: Phuong Restaurant, 87 Willoughby Road, Crows Nest
Bank details: The Karuna Foundation Children's Fund
BCC: 062217 ACC: 00907091
Thank you. We are looking forward to seeing you. 😊🌈💖
Nara
Fundraising Lunch 2019
Lotus flowers can also bring Hope and Spiritual Inspiration to people.
Our Hope is that those children who have disadvantaged background and have gone through difficulties, like living in the muddy water, will be encouraged to grow towards their hopes and possibilities by realising their ability to rise above their adversities. With guidance and care, they may be able to bloom just like a lotus.
Our vision is that the Lotus Pond can provide all visitors an environment where they can reflect on their spirituality and nurture a sense of purity and be inspired to be just like a lotus.
You are warmly invited to join our upcoming fundraising lunch, in support of the Project, starting with a New Year gathering. You will enjoy a delicious Vietnamese feast, in February 2019. Please save the date.
Date and Time: Sunday 3rd march 2019 at 1.00pm
Venue: Phuong Vietnamese Restaurant, 87 Willoughby Road, Crows Nest.
Cost: $50 per person $90 per couple (Children $20 & Family $120)
RSVP: Please let us know if you are planning to attend by emailing narap.lotus@gmail.com by Monday 18th
Please bring your family and friends. There are lucky door prizes for you to win. Come along and enjoy the cuisine and the company of friendly people. We are looking forward to sharing this special time with you. Let us know if you are vegetarian. Yummy vegetarian dishes are available, too.
If you would like to prepay for the event, or simply make a donation for the pond and/or supporting the children and youth with cancer program at Karuna during 2019.
Our details are: The Karuna Foundation Children’s Fund.
BSB: 062217 Account Number: 00907091. (Please state dinner or donation)
All donations over $2.00 are tax deductible. Thank you.
We also gratefully acknowledge Lanka’s recent donation of water lilies.
Your support is greatly appreciated
WE WISH YOU A HAPPY 2019
Karuna Fundraising Banquet Menu
Entrée
Prawn crackers
Traditional Vietnamese Street food snack
Spring rolls (cha gio) (1 per person)
Authentic Vietnamese crispy rolls with pork & vegetables,
served with fish sauce
Fresh summer rolls (goi cuon) (1 per person)
Traditional Vietnamese rice paper rolls with pork slices, prawn,
vermicelli, bean sprout, lettuce & mint, served with home-made bean sauce
Steamed dim sim (1 per person)
Pork mince, mushroom & water chestnut wrapped in wonton pastry, served with home-made bean sauce
Vietnamese chicken salad (ga xe phay)
Vietnamese style chicken salad with cabbage, carrots, celery, mint,
crushed peanuts, served with prawn crackers
Main
Marinated king prawns (com tep)
King prawns marinated in a fragrant sweet & sour sauce cooked with capsicum, pineapples, onions & tomatoes
Chiken coconut curry (ga xao lan)
Sliced chiken fillets cooked in coconut milk with onions, Chinese
mushrooms & crushed peanuts
Sizzling beef (bo vi)
Vietnamese sizzling beef with fresh vegetables in our home-made specialsauce, served on a hot plate
Lemongrass pork (heo xa ot)
Stir-fried pork slices cooked with lemongrass, garlic & a hint of chilli
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Yummy vegetarian dishes are also available.
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Please inform our staff for any dietary requirements
Upcoming Events
Making Sushi is Fun
This is a fantastic opportunity to learn Japanese tasty cuisine. It’s simple and easy to make. The skills to make healthy sushi rolls for for your dinner table, picnic and in the children’s lunch box. The date will be announced soon. Please come along with your friends with lots of laughter and eat your own creation together at the end.
The Sushi bamboo roll, all the ingredients including Nori, Japanese seaweed, and miso soup and authentic hot green tea are provided.
All the raised funds were allocated for the benefit of disadvantaged background Children.
Exotic Dancers from the Magical East 21/08/2016
The Karuna Foundation Children’s Fund has been providing variety of
interesting Fundraising Events.
They are always fun, enjoyable and cannot forget the yummy foods
at each event.
Beautiful Indonesian traditional dancing with traditional costumes.
A colouful Japanese folk dancing.
Learning and dancing Japanese folk dance is a lot of fun with the group.
A funny Tibetan traditional Yak dance story.