FVSO
Friends
of
Vinh Son
All operating expenses paid by the Board of Directors so 100% of your donation goes
to the children.
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We often tell you about how your donations directly affect the children with food, medicine and shelter. Your donations also sponsor major projects that do much to improve their lives. One of these projects is providing clean safe drinking water. VietDreams specializes in providing clean water systems throughout Vietnam. We have contracted with them since 2011 to provide and maintain the systems in all 8 locations. Each system is sized for the specific location. It includes a micro filtration system as well as a UV system to purify the water.
Each system is inspected quarterly by professionals with filters changed and all mechanics inspected. Clean water and health go hand in hand. Since 2011 we have seen significant improvement in overall health of the kids. Your donations make this possible.
On behalf of the Board of Directors, the Sisters and the children we thank you for your amazing support in the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021
Looking forward to a healthy 2022
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You have likely noticed increasingly over the years our WEB site could use some design help. If you have WEB site design talent and have some volunteer time to donate we could certainly give you a rewarding opportunity.
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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.