I recently traveled to the Tuy Loc commune in Phu Tho province to see the final Nutrition Contest. As part of the Caring for Kids project, we have been training the teachers at a number of schools in this area basic nutrition so that they could have nutrition class for all the students. Then all [...]
Our Caring for Kids project is in full swing now, with initial nutrition training carried out for leaders of nine different communes. We are currently in preparations to hold nutrition contests among the students of that school sometime in October. However, another piece of the project is support for supplemental food in these schools, in [...]
In mid-May we were blessed to host a group of college students and two professors from Concordia College New York (CCNY), an LCMS affiliated college. They were an enthusiastic bunch, with several of them having just graduated college the day before they left for Vietnam. The group arrived in very hot weather and spent their [...]
For the last two weeks of February, we were blessed to welcome a group led by Rev. Ron Pfluger and his wife Sally, from Bella Vista, Arkansas. Our relationship with Ron and Sally extends back many years, when in 1998 they sent their first team to partner with the work in Vietnam. Thirteen years later, Ron [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
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