Vietnamese people are saying goodbye to the Monkey and welcome Year of the Rooster, which will begin on January 28. In Year of the Monkey VNHelp exceeded our goals and expanded our services to the needy thanks for your generosity and commitment. May Year of the Rooster bring you abundance of joy and prosperity.

Dear Friends,

As we say farewell to 2016, we are sending you one more message on the last working day of this wonderful year. Thank you for your support in the past year that made our programs possible. Together, we have made lives better for many thousands people in Vietnam. And once again, thank you for accompanying us on the 25-year journey to provide humanitarian and development assistance to Vietnam (1991-2016).

We invite you to view the highlights of our achievements and to meet some of our beneficiaries in a 9 minute video, please click on this link.

It’s not too late to make your 2016 donation today. Every dollar you give will go a long way to help those in need.

Happy New Year!

Sincerely,

Thu Anh Do
President & Executive Director

The VNHelp’s Vision for the Poor Program provided free cataract surgeries to 190 patients in Thua Thien Hue Province (October 2016) and 235 patients in Nam Dinh Province (November 2016). In cataract surgery, the lens inside the eye that has become cloudy is removed and replaced with an artificial lens to restore clear vision. Though it is a simple and common surgery, many poor people in Vietnam can not afford to pay for it. Since 2008, this program has reached out to the poorest of the poor and helped 6,225 patients regain their vision. Thanks to our regular partner – Son Nam Charity Group – who funded 50% of the program cost and thanks to many individual donors who contributed to the VNHelp’s Vision for the Poor Program.

VNHelp (Milpitas, CA) and Compassionate Service Society (Garden Grove, CA) co-funded a disaster relief trip to Ha Tinh, Phu Yen and Quang Binh Provinces in Vietnam from the 3rd to the 6th November, 2016. Combining with the contributions from other sponsors in Vietnam through Thien Tam Red Cross (Saigon), we handed 2,000 gift packages to the victims of these flood-damaged provinces. Each gift package includes a blanket, a jacket, clothes, note books, pens, instant noodles, milk, medicines, and cash. We focused on helping students return to schools. Providing direct assistance to people affected by natural disasters has been a VNHelp’s yearly activity. We are dedicated to helping the survivals rebuild their lives after the disaster.