Ms. Quyen, our project coordinator, emailed last week with the following update: We had a very hard working whole day on Wed at primary schools and kindergartens of Phuong Vy and Ngo Xa communes. This Friday we’re going to Tien Luong and Phuong Xa and measure weight and height of the students there. Now we’re [...]
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Remember the group from Naples that built a parking area in Phuong Vy commune? They did a fantastic job and made a HUGE impact at the school, but unfortunately there was not enough time to finish the parking area. The commune promised to finish the task, and indeed they did! Recently we travelled to Phuong [...]
Monday, November 7, 2011
A group of eight amazing people came from Faith Lutheran Church in Naples Florida to help with our projects in Phu Tho. The task for the week: building a parking structure at a primary school. Most of the kids ride their bikes to school, but with no where designated to park them, the bikes end [...]
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
This past week we traveled again to Phuong Vy commune in Phu Tho province, Vietnam. The main purpose of the trip was to guide some visitors to see a variety of our project sites. Along the way, we stopped at the elementary school in Phuong Vy, the very same one we visited last time. That time [...]
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Also on this week’s visit to Phuong Vy, we were very pleased to see fabulous progress on the library portion of our Caring for Kids project. This is a program to help alleviate costs associated with school materials. Traditionally parents pay for brand new books, and even though the books costs not much money, it can [...]
Thursday, August 18, 2011
This week we once again made the bumpy drive from Hanoi to Phu Tho. Our purpose was simply to check up on our current project, Caring for Kids, in two communes. I was privileged to travel with one of our project coordinators, Chi Van Le. Firstly, we travelled to Phuong Vy commune, where we have bathroom [...]
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
From August 7-12, we were pleased to welcome to Vietnam a fellow servant of LCMS World Mission. Erin Alter served for three and a half years in Japan as a volunteer, but now works full-time at the LCMS World Mission headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. She is the program director for long-term volunteers throughout the [...]
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
We were blessed to welcome fourteen representatives from Kormilda College (the equivalent of an American high school), led by Head of Senior School Shane Sheddon, to visit LCMS WM project sites on July 6-7. The trip began earl in the morning with a three and a half hour drive to Phuong Vy commune in Phu [...]
Monday, April 19, 2010
This is a collection of many old but valuable stories written by our National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) partners and friends. CAN TRIP TO VIET NAM 2004 After a successful trip in 2003, this year another youth group from CAN returned to Vietnam to do their special service for 4 days beginning 29th September 2004. The group [...]
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Between the 7th and 19th of Dec. 2009, LCMS-NIN organized a 2-week training in Phu Tho as a part of the Cow Bank Project, a project supported by LCMS World Relief. The traning was held in 6 different communes: Phuong Vien of Ha Hoa District, Phuong Vi, Tuy Loc, Tung Khe, Van Khuc,and Dieu Luong of Cam Khe District, with [...]
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