Page 1 of 8 20 October 2017 Friends of the Underprivileged (FOU) members and supporters traveled at our own expenses to the project sites. We provided relieving assistance, assessed current educational, social, and health-care projects, as well as evaluated new projects to provide long-term impact to the underprivileged. SYNERGETIC ACTIVITIES Supporting underprivileged students through education is the main focus of FOU. We have been cooperating with United World College of Southeast Asia (UWCSEA) in Singapore and Cardinal Newman High School (CNHS) in California to provide scholarships to K-12 and college students. Participants from both schools visited and interacted with children from the leprosy community in Di Linh and those at the special educational school Mai Anh in Da Lat. The UWCSEA team completed their trip in March, while the CNHS team visited both places during Easter in April. FOU representatives were honored at the 2017-18 scholarship award ceremony at the Medical/Medicine University in Saigon last November. Two FOU friends traveled to Saigon and Hue in January to visit Ky Quang, Duc Son orphanages, and the Central Hospital in Hue. They distributed gifts and affectionately interacted with the children and patients there. Our FOU board member and supporters also completed their annual visits to numerous project sites in August. • Education. Last year FOU offered 377 scholarships to 22 college students and 355 K-12 students at 8 different locations in Vietnam (Bu Dang, Cam Ranh, Di Linh, K’Ren, Kontum, Long Dien, Phan Rang, and Saigon). Fifteen students continued medical school in Saigon. About 40% of total students earned honor certificates for academic excellence. At Da Tong and K'ren, we supported tutoring centers for after-school activities. Limited scholarships would be provided to displaced students on a pilot program in Binh Duong. Scholarship rules would be flexible for these students since they have no alternative but change schools when moving with their parents who are employed seasonally. • Relief support. We distributed gifts to the patients at different leprosy communities (Di Linh, Ben San, Kontum, Hoa Van, and Qui Hoa). Rice was donated to Di Linh leprosy community and Sao Mai orphanage in Pleiku. Ramen and medicine were provided to the nuns in Da Tong who are qualified to diagnose and give free medication/food to the sick and poor Montagnards. We also distributed 250 pairs of slippers to bare-footed children and cheered them up with new clothes, candies, and toys. Support was provided to rebuild a burnt-down dormitory in Di Linh and equip it with furniture, install utility and hot water facility for the children. Five additional new bicycles were donated to the residents and replaced those beyond- repaired bicycles. We were touched when our driver and his friend insisted to contribute to the relief effort when witnessing our activities in Di Linh. • Clean water and sanitation. While monitoring conditions of eight water systems in Da Tong that FOU sponsored four years ago, we worked with a contractor to bring fresh water from a hill down to several villages. The gravity-fed water system is relatively easy to maintain compared to the existing water wells that need electricity and constant maintenance of water pumps. At Pleitơ Ngơ tribe in Kontum, we completed eleven toilets that were engineered to last at least 10 years. The tribal people in Datong provided own labor to dig ~3 km trench for water pipes, while each family dug their own holes for toilet septic tanks in Kontum. • Other. Some FOU friends collected poems from different leprosy communities and published them in a poetry book Lấp Lánh Tình Người (Shining Human Love). The books have been sent to authors and FOU donors as a token of appreciation, and donated to different leprosy communities for giving back to their donors /visitors. All expenses related to publication, transport, and mailing were not from FOU fund but covered by private donation. OUTLOOKS FOU will focus on following projects in the coming months: • Clean water project. We will start another project to bring water from high elevation to different tribes in Da Tong. • Sanitary project. In phase two, FOU will build additional toilets at tribal villages in Kontum. Each toilet would cost about 280 usd. • Educational project. FOU will continue to provide scholarships to underprivileged students while motivating them for higher education. A new library will be established in Kontum for minority students at a dormitory.
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20 October 2017 Friends of the Underprivileged (FOU) members and supporters traveled at our own expenses to the project sites. We provided relieving assistance, assessed current educational, social, and health-care projects, as well as evaluated new projects to provide long-term impact to the underprivileged.
SYNERGETIC ACTIVITIES Supporting underprivileged students through education is the main focus of FOU. We have been cooperating with
United World College of Southeast Asia (UWCSEA) in Singapore and Cardinal Newman High School (CNHS) in California to provide scholarships to K-12 and college students. Participants from both schools visited and interacted with children from the leprosy community in Di Linh and those at the special educational school Mai Anh in Da Lat. The UWCSEA team completed their trip in March, while the CNHS team visited both places during Easter in April. FOU representatives were honored at the 2017-18 scholarship award ceremony at the Medical/Medicine University in Saigon last November. Two FOU friends traveled to Saigon and Hue in January to visit Ky Quang, Duc Son orphanages, and the Central Hospital in Hue. They distributed gifts and affectionately interacted with the children and patients there. Our FOU board member and supporters also completed their annual visits to numerous project sites in August.
• Education. Last year FOU offered 377 scholarships to 22 college students and 355 K-12 students at 8 different locations in Vietnam (Bu Dang, Cam Ranh, Di Linh, K’Ren, Kontum, Long Dien, Phan Rang, and Saigon). Fifteen students continued medical school in Saigon. About 40% of total students earned honor certificates for academic excellence. At Da Tong and K'ren, we supported tutoring centers for after-school activities. Limited scholarships would be provided to displaced students on a pilot program in Binh Duong. Scholarship rules would be flexible for these students since they have no alternative but change schools when moving with their parents who are employed seasonally. • Relief support. We distributed gifts to the patients at different leprosy communities (Di Linh, Ben San, Kontum, Hoa Van, and Qui Hoa). Rice was donated to Di Linh leprosy community and Sao Mai orphanage in Pleiku. Ramen and medicine were provided to the nuns in Da Tong who are qualified to diagnose and give free medication/food to the sick and poor Montagnards. We also distributed 250 pairs of slippers to bare-footed children and cheered them up with new clothes, candies, and toys. Support was provided to rebuild a burnt-down dormitory in Di Linh and equip it with furniture, install utility and hot water facility for the children. Five additional new bicycles were donated to the residents and replaced those beyond-repaired bicycles. We were touched when our driver and his friend insisted to contribute to the relief effort when witnessing our activities in Di Linh. • Clean water and sanitation. While monitoring conditions of eight water systems in Da Tong that FOU sponsored four years ago, we worked with a contractor to bring fresh water from a hill down to several villages. The gravity-fed water system is relatively easy to maintain compared to the existing water wells that need electricity and constant maintenance of water pumps. At Pleitơ Ngơ tribe in Kontum, we completed eleven toilets that were engineered to last at least 10 years. The tribal people in Datong provided own labor to dig ~3 km trench for water pipes, while each family dug their own holes for toilet septic tanks in Kontum. • Other. Some FOU friends collected poems from different leprosy communities and published them in a poetry book Lấp Lánh Tình Người (Shining Human Love). The books have been sent to authors and FOU donors as a token of appreciation, and donated to different leprosy communities for giving back to their donors /visitors. All expenses related to publication, transport, and mailing were not from FOU fund but covered by private donation. OUTLOOKS FOU will focus on following projects in the coming months:
• Clean water project. We will start another project to bring water from high elevation to different tribes in Da Tong. • Sanitary project. In phase two, FOU will build additional toilets at tribal villages in Kontum. Each toilet would cost
about 280 usd. • Educational project. FOU will continue to provide scholarships to underprivileged students while motivating them for
higher education. A new library will be established in Kontum for minority students at a dormitory.
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Fig.1: United World College students teach and interact with children at MaiAnh special education school. Dalat.
Fig.2: Cardinal Newman staff and students lead activities for underprivileged children. DiLinh and Dalat.
Fig.3: FOU friends with orphans at Ky Quang in Saigon (left) and Duc Son in Hue (right).
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Fig. 4: FOU friends distribute gifts and interact with patients. Ben San leprosy community.
Fig. 5: FOU friends distribute gifts to patients (left) and award outstanding students (right). DiLinh leprosy community.
Fig. 6: Minority students with new bikes at their newly built
dormitory. DiLinh leprosy community.
Fig. 7: FOU friends distribute awards to academically
excellent students. K'ren tribal village.
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Fig. 8: Local tribal people help to build new water systems (top left) and enjoy clean water at community points.
Datong province.
Fig. 9: Activities at another community water point (left).
FOU investigates a new water project with help from a tribal leader and interpreter (right). Datong province.
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Fig. 10: FOU brings footwear, candies, and toys to children and gifts to the elders. Datong and Kontum provinces.
Fig. 11: FOU celebrates school results with academically excellent students in Bu Dang (left) and Long Dien (right).
Binh Phuoc province.
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Fig. 12: Children under loving care at Sao Mai orphanage. Pleiku province.
Fig. 13: New toilets under construction by tribal villagers (left). FOU member and a construction manager inspect a finished unit (right). Eleven new toilets were built for poor and populated minority families in the first phase. Kontum
province.
Fig. 14: FOU representative and scholarship recipients.
Kontum province.
Fig. 15: Happy patients and their gifts. Qui Hoa leprosy
community.
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Fig. 16: Sister Hoang (left) and a FOU friend (right) with patients. Qui Hoa leprosy community.
Fig. 17: FOU friends and medical students at the scholarship award ceremony. Saigon.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT We sincerely thank the following groups on behalf of all the underprivileged in Vietnam:
- The Vietnamese community in Singapore - United World College of Southeast Asia, Singapore - Benevity Community Impact & Hewlett Packard, USA - Shell Oil Company Foundation, USA - CTEX Ventures, USA - Tropical Star Enterprise, USA - AmazonSmile.com
- Cardinal Newman High School, USA - Capital Group Charitable Foundation, USA - Second Baptist Church, USA - Power Plastics, USA - Capital Management Solutions, USA - Friends and supporters worldwide
Page 8 of 8 Donors - Hung Minh Dinh & Nguyet Thuyen Vu, David Dinh, Ryan Dinh, Chuong Hoang Vu, Vu Thanh Chung & Vu
Ngan Anh, Thomas & Hoang Yen Pham, Anonymous-1, Hoang Anh Le, Thanh Le Vu, Hong & Trong Anh Nguyen, Thanh Ostheimer, Victoria Heyman, William Heyman, Van Le, Nguyen Thi Van Anh, Nguyen Hoang Phuc, Tran Lan Huong, Mai Anh Le, Andrew V Nguyen, Anthony C Nguyen, Vivian Annie Nguyen, Ngo Thi Kim Huyen.
- Le DanLam & Thanh Dan, Thang Dao & Thu Ha, Kim Thoa, Thang & Chau Vu, Hung-Viet Truong-Cao & My-Hiep Thi Tran, Kim Thoa Nguyen, Quynh Giao Pham, Quy & Danh Nguyen, Deana DamTrang Nguyen, Liem T. Nguyen & Lisa L. Nguyen, Thu Suong Vo, Monique Do, Hong Nhung & Hieu, Thanh Nguyen, Tuan & Nhan Pham, Julian & Quynh Tien Cao, Lien Huong Ha.
- Hoang & Tu Anh Nguyen, Khanh S. Hoang & Thuy T. Do, Lan Manson, E. Manson, A. Manson, Tuong & Vang Nguyen.
- Tuong Cat & Lynn (Nhung) Do, Chi Kim Sides, Harry Le & Ha, Kim Le, Lan Tran, Ching Chieng King, Jason Maier.
- Sheila Tran, Courtney Le Tran, Hanifar Maricar, Minh Dieu Nguyen, Nguyen An, Nguyen Y, Hoang & Van Du Nguyen.
- Robert & Dana Huck, Ly & Chu Nguyen, Minh & Tuong Van Pham, Xuan Hong & Phuc - Luis & Gloria San Andres, Lam & Dieu Anh Nguyen Phuong, Thu Ha, Hang Bao, Nhu Nhu. - Tin Dinh & Lien Bui, Anonymous-q, Thuy Tran.
- Erika Tran Nguyen, Thu Do, Lam Quan, Dawn Faessler, Le Thu Nguyen, Deni and Maggie Valderama, Shiro Nobunaga, Michael La & Xuan Lam, Melissa Bleak, and friends
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