<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Norbert -<div>According to the World Bank (2010 numbers), Cambodia's per-capita income is USD 63/month. Per capita income in Switzerland is USD 5863/month. Switzerland's per capita income is two orders of magnitude greater than Cambodia's. However, I was not comparing Cambodia to Switzerland. I was comparing Cambodia to Senegal. Senegal has a vibrant chapter, is doing a lot of projects, does not charge members dues, and manages to cover all of their costs through the sales of coffee at their meetings. I will concede that Senegal's per capita income is higher than Cambodia at US 87/month. However, I would offer that coffee and secretariat costs in Senegal are more expensive than in Cambodia.<div><br></div><div>--</div><div>- Eric</div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 28, 2012, at 6:00 PM, President ISOC-KH wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">I had forgotten, at that time, to inform the writer that the monthly salary of a high school teacher here is about US$50 (five zero, not five hundred). Maybe we should really blame them – our 100 members – for not providing the local support for a start-up office and a secretary, to be sustainable?</span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>