Second summer charity trip to schools in need in Ben Tre

On August 14, 2016, the volunteers have help us hand out uniforms and books to 47 young and poor students at An Định Elementary School in Mo Cay Village, Ben Tre province.

They also visited the An Định Highschool in the same area to hand out uniforms and school materials to 94 students in severe economic hardship.

Summer 2016 charity events for families in need and the "kitchen" back then...

Back to continue supporting Bửu Nghiêm, Nha Mân, Đồng Tháp temple, our group of volunteers have helped give 70 gifts to the poor families, each contains 10 kg of rice, 1 box of instant noodles , 2 bottles of soy sauce and 200,000 VND. We also sent to the "kitchen" 15.000.000 VND for poor students and to orphans 10,000,000 VND. The thatched roof was worn out....they still can not afford to replace it with tile/metal roof. 
The group will continue to travel to Ben Tre in mid August to help out families in need....

Charity events bring warmer Tet to orphans...

Tu An temple - Ba Ria, 70km from Saigon is a village temple. They mostly receive vegetables donations to feed the children. Some children were left at the door of the temple on the 28th before the New year. The 3 kids in the picture were just going through the heart surgery. The ones carried by Sister Minh Hai are twins. From Sister, the temple currently shelters and cares about 140 orphans. More practically, we gave 5,000,000VND to the temple to support the orphans and elderly. To them, no donation is too small and "as you give so shall you receive"....

Summer 2015 charity events in small villages of Ben Tre and Tra Vinh ,VietNam

Going through all notes and pictures from our charity group of friends who kindly represented us and tirelessly volunteered to travel through remote locations to help out humans who are struggling to survive through poverty or hardship, I am writing the blog for these endless humanity works...

The first destination was the Elementary school in Bình Khánh Đông village, Mỏ Cày district, Bến Tre province. Part of the funds was used to get uniform for poor students... 

The next destination was Liên Bữu temple, Hòa Lợi villagage, Châu Thành district, Trà Vinh province. The meaningful gifts, each including a box of instant noodle, 10kg of rice and 200.000 VND,were prepared for 50 poor families.

The group also didn't forget to visit other 43 elderly people at in the same area to give out instant noodles, milk and 100.000 VND. On top of it,  500kg of rice was given to the temple to help cook the meals for them.

 "You feel good because you're helping others, and the others feel good because they're getting help” always holds true....

Staying in touch and continue to support the orphans we have met last trip...

Anyone who has visited the orphanage at Năng Chơn temple in Sóc Trăng and the young kids at kitchen at Bửu Nghiêm temple in Đồng Tháp hardly forget, the ones with simple wishes to grow up in unconditional love and compassions by their care givers.
We just do our best to ease their worries by donating some funds at least twice a year in the summer and probably the end of the year.
By the end of June this year, we sent 10,000,000 VND to Nang Nhon temple helping out the young orphan lives and felt really blessed and touched by receiving their thank you notes and pictures of kids we have embraced, knowing that our little support may not mean much...but it's still better than not doing any....

Secondly, we also share some of our own funds of 15,000,000 VND to help fixing up the kitchen roof which is in very severe condition after the heavy rainy season in Dong Thap.