Our August Newsletter tells the summer story in Kontum and Pleiku. It is hot all over ! The kids and the nuns are benefitting from the donations we have made in the past to build their farm, animal and bakery assets. In this time of COVID it has been more than a blessing as Vietnam still has a strict social lock do.wn policy and access to traditional markets are limited
In July we raised $14,185 or 9.4% of our $150,000 goal. T In recent years the generosity of our donors has allowed us to do so much more than we ever expected when FVSO was started in 2005. In addition to basic needs, medicine and education we have been able to fund much need projects for self support and shelter security. Although the economy in Vietnam was hard hit by COVID restraints the nuns have been able to provide a safe and secure environment for the kids largely because of your help.
For 20 years, we have worked hard to build a bridge between your donations and the Vinh Son and Sao Mai families. As middlemen, we have seen firsthand the wonderful progress due to your ongoing support. You have improved so many lives and made hope a reality
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Fund Raising
This has been a difficult year for many. Our donations are well below previous years at this time and well below our planned budget. But there is a way you can help through Amazon Smile
AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support FVSO, at no cost to you. Shop at smile.amazon.com, and find the same convenient experience with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to FVSO. Just type in the Vinh Son Montagnard Orphanage to make your choice. The kids will be the beneficiaries !
All operating expenses paid by the Board of Directors so 100% of your donation goes
to the children.
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Clyde Lewandowski
Personal Experiences and Reflections of Vinh Son Montagnards Orphanage
Since 1968, when I spent some time in Vietnam, I've had a soft spot in my heart for Vietnamese kids. Of course, in 1968 we soldiers were all kids. Over the years, I've become the unofficial historian for the artillery battalion that I served with. Back then we did what we could to help the kids and connected with the orphanages that were near our headquarters area. In 2002, after doing some research at the National Archives in Washington D.C., I was able to find the name and address of one of the orphanages in Hue that we had supported and began a quest to find it. Unfortunately that orphanage had closed many years ago.
In 2006, I still had not found a connection to an orphanage in Vietnam that felt right, and was fortunate to have been found by Dennis Coyne and Friends of VSO. The trip to the orphanage at Kontum in February 2007 sealed my fate. The kids, the caregivers and sisters are absolutely the most wonderful people I have ever met. Just seeing their happiness brought tears of joy and I was hooked for life.