{"id":1946,"date":"2013-12-27T10:58:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T18:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vnhelp.org\/blog\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2024-12-28T10:04:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T10:04:24","slug":"typhoon-haiyan-relief-efforts-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/vi\/typhoon-haiyan-relief-efforts-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon Haiyan Relief Efforts in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Although Vietnam escaped Typhoon Haiyan relatively unscathed compared to the destruction that tragically wrought the Philippines, there were still many people in central Vietnam whose lives and livelihood were devastated by the event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">VNHELP initially wasn&#8217;t sure if we had the resources to help the typhoon victims in Vietnam, but thankfully, with support from the Compassionate Service Society, the Quy Nhon Charitable Association, and individual donors, we pooled together enough funds to go in and make a true difference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We&#8217;ve been helping typhoon victims with food and financial assistance, and we&#8217;ve been checking in to see if we can play a role in recovery efforts. It&#8217;s humbling to see the light of hope return to people&#8217;s eyes as they realize help is there for them.\u00a0We&#8217;ll update this post as more info about the relief efforts comes in from Vietnam, but for now, check out some of the pictures below!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1948\" style=\"width: 405px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1948\" src=\"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Relief-1.jpg\" alt=\"Relief 1\" width=\"405\" height=\"271\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People waited patiently for assistance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1949\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1949\" src=\"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Relief-2.jpg\" alt=\"Relief 2\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">They were kind and helped us keep track of what was being distributed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1950\" src=\"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Relief-3.jpg\" alt=\"Relief 3\" width=\"405\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1951\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1951\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1951\" src=\"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Relief-4.jpg\" alt=\"Relief 4\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many of the people we helped were elderly; they would have had a very hard time getting back on their feet otherwise.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1952\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1952\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1952\" src=\"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Relief-5.jpg\" alt=\"Relief 5\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great to see a smile on this gentleman&#8217;s face again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1953\" src=\"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Relief-6.jpg\" alt=\"Relief 6\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1954\" src=\"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Relief-7.jpg\" alt=\"Relief 7\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1956\" src=\"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Relief-9.jpg\" alt=\"Relief 9\" width=\"405\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1957\" src=\"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Relief-10.jpg\" alt=\"Relief 10\" width=\"405\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1955\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1955\" style=\"width: 405px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1955\" src=\"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Relief-8.jpg\" alt=\"Relief 8\" width=\"405\" height=\"271\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thanks to the wonderful volunteers and project coordinators who were there to take care of the distribution logistics!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/97449146@N07\/11438713386\/in\/set-72157638799625736\/\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Vietnam escaped Typhoon Haiyan relatively unscathed compared to the destruction that tragically wrought the Philippines, there were still many people in central Vietnam whose lives and livelihood were devastated by the event. VNHELP initially wasn&#8217;t sure if we had the resources to help the typhoon victims in Vietnam, but thankfully, with support from the &hellip; <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/vi\/typhoon-haiyan-relief-efforts-vietnam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Typhoon Haiyan Relief Efforts in Vietnam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_news","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"nf_dc_page":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,51],"tags":[106,107,108],"project_category":[],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-disasters","category-projects","tag-disaster-relief","tag-typhoon-haiyan","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}