February 15th, 2021
HAPPINESS FOR ORPHANS IN THE NEW YEAR
In keeping with Tet tradition and to give orphans a spring celebration steeped in the love of their US sponsors, VNHelp representatives distributed “lucky money” (new year cash gifts) at several orphanages that are part of our child sponsorship programs.
On the morning of the second day of the Year of the Tiger, Ms. Phuong Anh, VNHelp Coordinator in Saigon, went to the Tu Hanh Pagoda Orphanage and gave good wish and lucky money to 88 children and caregivers, 52 elderly people, and 24 monks and nuns. Those envelopes each contained 100,000 VND and were an expression of love from many people in the US.
Previously, in the week preceding Tet, VNHelp distributed similar gifts to 76 orphans at the Dieu Giac Pagoda and 12 orphans in the Vinh Phuoc orphanage. In separate VNHelp visits, youths at the Bo De Phuong Duy and Mai Am Hoa Hong shelters each received 1 Million VND because they were older and had been sponsored to attend vocational school.
VNHelp would like to thank our sponsors Tuan-Khanh and Yen for donating the funds to celebrate the Lunar New Year, bringing joy to the children on their New Year’s Day.
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October 14th, 2020
A new calamity has befallen Vietnam: in October 2020 tropical storm Nangka wreaked unprecedented destruction and misery upon the populations of Southeast Asia. In Vietnam’s central region, the provinces of Thua Thien, Hue, Quang Binh and Quang Tri have been subjected to devastating floods.
As of this writing 23 victims have been washed away by floodwaters and nearly 46,000 people have been evacuated from affected areas; 14 people are still missing, and more than 109,000 homes, 1,443 acres (584 hectares) of crops, scores of roads and bridges have been destroyed. And yet forecasters predict even more torrential rains for the next few days, maybe extending into the weekend.
VNHelp staff, volunteers, and resources have been mobilized to assist in rescue efforts for this monumental disaster. We come to you to urgently ask for assistance, in the form of financial donations, so that we can lend as significant a hand as possible to this initiative. As always we hope that you will open your hearts and generously offer desperately needed help to the hurricane victims in Central Vietnam.
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August 8th, 2020
Son La is a picturesque, wooded and mountainous region in the Northwest of Vietnam, bordering Laos on its South side. The population is composed of ethnic Thai, Xinh Mun, Muong, Hmong, and Kinh people, whose lives harmonize with and depend on the natural resources of the land. Many families are poor: they mostly subsist from maize crops, but lack many basic amenities such as irrigation for their farms, electricity, clean water, roads, medical facilities, and schools.
Tu Nang commune has 24 villages with 2,026 households (8,721 people). The old Ban Tin Toc school had no classroom; instead it borrowed a space from a community building, and was all that the area’s children (around 77 3-5 year olds) had for many years. While there had been many requests to build a separate kindergarten submitted to local education committees, no budget ever materialized. A fervent wish of parents and community leaders was to have a safe, hygienic school for their children.
Groundbreaking for the new school occurred on August 15th, 2020. The construction was completed for 3 classrooms and a teacher room. The school has a capacity of 75 to 100 students. It was inaugurated and handed over to the teachers and community leaders in November. They, along with the parents and schoolchildren, were elated, for now they had a beautiful, new, safe and hygienic kindergarten, close to where they were living.
Our sincere thanks go to Ms. Mai Dolch in California, who provided the fund for construction, and Gieo Tin Yeu Charity Group in Hanoi, who supplied the new furniture for the school.
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April 27th, 2020
We are very proud to announce the completion of yet another school building project undertaken in Vietnam, even in this difficult COVID-19 time. This is a pre-school in the commune of Vĩnh Phước B, Gò Quao district, Kiên Giang province, a remote and rural area 155 miles South-West of Saigon.
The new kindergarten has 4 classrooms, 1 teacher’s room, 5 restrooms, electricity, running water; all built and furnished according to modern standards. It’ll meet the urgent needs of approximately 155 kindergarteners, 8 teachers, and 2 support staff. The construction started in April 2020 and completed in July. On September 5th the school opened to welcome excited young children and their parents to the first day of 2020-2021 school year. Partnering with VNHelp for this project is Lee’s Sandwiches, who provided 50% of the construction cost, and VNHelp funded the rest. We are delighted and thankful to be able to provide a safe learning facility for the young of this Kiên Giang community for many years to come.
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November 28th, 2019
Tu An Orphanage currently supports 151 orphans, but the space is too small and overcrowded. VNHelp began to raise funds for this project in November 2018 and hopes to receive sufficient funds by January 2019 in order to implement the project in Spring 2019. VNHelp will construct a two story building to provide 16 bedrooms for teenage orphans and 2 rooms for staff.
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