July 2011 Vietnam Trip Report
13/08/11 11:15
This past July 2011, Thắng Trần, director of H4VO, made a two-week charity trip to Vietnam with his family and three volunteers. This is a report of their trip, which includes the latest progress of H4VO-sponsored orphanages, and information about the other orphanages that they visited. (View photos of the trip.)
Our orphanage trip was a great success, even though it only lasted two weeks. We visited eight orphanages, a mental institution (Trại Điên), and children at a cancer hospital (Bệnh Viện Ung Bứu). Among the eight orphanages, two of them are the orphanages that we currently sponsor, Thiên Bình and Diệu Giác, three orphanages are in Bà Rịa, Vũng Tàu, one is in Bình Chánh, one is in Hóc Môn, and another is in Hồ Chí Minh City. In addition to clothes and basic medicines like Tylenol and vitamins, we donated soccer balls, crayons, pens, and Frisbees to the children.
We would like to thank our friends and volunteers for making this trip a productive and memorable experience. We would especially like to thank Chị Ninh and Chị Vân for being our guides and providing us with great hospitality while in Vietnam; Kathy Nguyễn, Chương Ngô, and Jessica Vũ for sharing invaluable moments with the children. Above all, we would like to thank every friend of H4VO. It was your support and generous donations that enable H4VO to bring the cheerful smiles and hope to the orphans.
(Please note that all travel expenses and donations, including gifts and money, made in this trip are from their personal accounts and are not funded by H4VO. H4VO funds are donated quarterly directly to the sponsored orphanages). Read More...
Our orphanage trip was a great success, even though it only lasted two weeks. We visited eight orphanages, a mental institution (Trại Điên), and children at a cancer hospital (Bệnh Viện Ung Bứu). Among the eight orphanages, two of them are the orphanages that we currently sponsor, Thiên Bình and Diệu Giác, three orphanages are in Bà Rịa, Vũng Tàu, one is in Bình Chánh, one is in Hóc Môn, and another is in Hồ Chí Minh City. In addition to clothes and basic medicines like Tylenol and vitamins, we donated soccer balls, crayons, pens, and Frisbees to the children.
We would like to thank our friends and volunteers for making this trip a productive and memorable experience. We would especially like to thank Chị Ninh and Chị Vân for being our guides and providing us with great hospitality while in Vietnam; Kathy Nguyễn, Chương Ngô, and Jessica Vũ for sharing invaluable moments with the children. Above all, we would like to thank every friend of H4VO. It was your support and generous donations that enable H4VO to bring the cheerful smiles and hope to the orphans.
(Please note that all travel expenses and donations, including gifts and money, made in this trip are from their personal accounts and are not funded by H4VO. H4VO funds are donated quarterly directly to the sponsored orphanages). Read More...