Gifting Warm Coat to ethnic minority students in Truong Son mountain area, Quang Binh
November 28, 2019
Photos combine Kindergarten and Primary students in the last volunteer campaign, in 3 mountainous communes of KimThuy, NganThuy and LamThuy in LeThuy district.
“Winter Warm Clothes” Give away sweatshirts for TTH students in Cam An, Cam Lo – Quang Tri
November 17, 2019
Nov. Date January 2019, teachers, monks and nuns of Lam Dong province and Tu Bi Foundation gave gifts to poor students at Cam An primary school, Cam Lo – Quang Tri, including jackets, schoolbooks. Poor students are given extra slippers and backpacks.
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OPEN LETTER
To: Tu Bi Foundation
Winter in the Central region is very cold, especially Quang Tri province’s weather is very harsh in winter, children need to have enough warm clothes to wear to school.
Cam An Primary School, Cam Lo District, Quang Tri Province has two schools with a total of 22 classes with 615 students, including poor studious students, orphans, students in difficult circumstances. I don’t have enough warm clothes to cope with winter.
In the spirit of love and empathy, we wanted students to have enough warm clothes to have during the cold winter to protect them on their way to school.
With a conscience of an educator, our heartfelt concern are with the well beings of the students. We hope that Tu Bi Foundation can join us in contributing 615 warm clothes for our disadvantaged students so that they can continue to go to school.
We’re sincerely grateful to Tu Bi Foundation for helping our students this school year.
On behalf of the school board
Principal
Phan Thi Thu Lai
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When I got back to Vietnam, Tu Bi Foundation received this letter asking for help. Tu Bi Foundation seldom refuse assistance for students, so we tried our best … Tu Bi Foundation would like to thank Ms. Dieu Tinh in Texas, Ms. Thu Ha and her friends in Vietnam for contributing to the program ‘Warm Clothes for Winter’. Thank you for accompanying Tu Bi Foundation in helping poor students in Quang Tri province, Cam Lo commune to have a cozy winter.
Best regards,
Tu Bi Foundation
Tặng quà Xã Trường Xuân, Trường Sơn, Quang Binh
Bring Lunar New Year Gifts to Ethnic Minority VÂN KIỀU in XÃ TRƯỜNG XUÂN and XÃ TRƯỜNG SƠN, QUẢNG BÌNH Communes
The end of the year is coming and everyone is busy preparing for the Lunar New Year. This is Tu Bi Foundation busiest time of the year, preparing gifts to bring joy and hope to the mountainous ethnic people. In 2018, Truong Son in Quang Binh province, was repeatedly hit by floods and typhoons, which damaged many poor villages in the areas that had not received the assistance. This is a meaningful and warm humanitarian gifts from our benefactors.
In 2019, Tu Bi Foundation open the New Year program in the North for Van Kieu ethnic children and relatives of Truong Son and Truong Xuan communes on the border district of Quang Binh province. It mountains next to it is Laos and up to 70% of people cannot speak Vietnamese. November 24, 2018 at Hang Chuồn village, Na Lam village, Truong Nam village, Truong Xuan commune – after the first phase of donating jackets to 76 pupils, we witnessed the poverty and deprivation of many families after the floods and many children who did not have cold jackets walked barefoot when the temperature was below 0 degrees Celsius. Tu Bi’s budget is limited, but we could not ignore after hearing presentation of the students’ difficulties. At 8:00 pm on January 20, we left from Hanoi crossing 620 km traveling the winding road to cross mountain pass, surrounded by only forest trees and reeds of Truong Son. At 7:30 am on January 21, 2019, the whole group was in the commune as planned. The whole night we did not sleep, but when we got out of the car all of our fatigue seemed to disappear upon seeing the joy of the ethnic people already waiting for us 15km from Rin Rin. We chose this as a location because it is the closest for two villagers of Reun and Po Loang (the commune center distance will be 35 km of forest road instead of 15 km). Very quickly the people helped us carry each of the boxes off the truck and waited us to call out each house to receive gifts.
40 poorest households in the 2 poorest villages of the commune received a gift worth VND 915,000, with a special blanket (all of the blankets were vacuumed seal for transportation and make it easier for people to carry home with such a long distance in the mountain), 10 kg of glutinous rice with yellow flowers, 2 liters of cooking oil, 2 bottles of fish sauce, 1 kg of noodles, 2 kg of laundry soap. The total value of gifts for 40 households is: VND 36,600,000. A lady told me, “I have to walk from 2 am to get here. I’m so happy, this year I have a decent Lunar New Year”. The next destination is Long Son preschool, Truong Son kindergarten, the boarding ethnic minority primary school and Truong Son ethnic boarding secondary school. We also went to the elementary school site in Da Chat and Ben Duong villages. I really feel joy and shy when seeing strangers come to give gifts from the children (especially preschool children). Small skinny children, some wearing 1-2 thin shirts. Some were better wearing an old warm musty coat. My heart ached and hurt. Warm new shirts, new sandals, cakes and candies were quickly given to them by Tu Bi volunteers. With a total of 998 shirts, 200 pairs of sandals and candies of brands with food safety brands such as Kinh Đô, Hải Hà, Kotobuki or Chupa Chups of Thailand were given to the students. The total cost for the number of gifts for children is 82,940,000 VND. The total cost of phase 1 and phase 2 is: 125,125,000 VND
Watching the babies cuddle with new sandals, curiously stroking the new or strange clothes, to looking at the candy made us feel so happy. Kind hearts have brought peace to the poor children here. The school was spacious, but the poor children still lived in poverty. 13:30 – end of gift delivery was also the time when the rain comes. We are all happy that everything happens when the weather was favorable. We continued to drive through the mountains and forests to return in time to catch the evening train back to Hanoi. Lunch took place at 15:40 pm. Fatigue and hunger set in and clearly shown on each member’s face. But whenever we look at each other, we smile and with joy.
At 7am on January 22, we were in Hanoi and returned to our usual work. The project coordination, transportation, and out reach went smoothly. The first charity trip of Tu Bi Foundation in 2019 ended with new motivation and belief in each of us.
Thank you to the benefactors and warm wishes to all.
Gifts for students of Truong Xuan commune, Quang Binh 2018.12.24
Dear Benefactors,
Most of the Tu Bi Foudation programs are carried out in remote areas throughout Vietnam. When going up a mountain pass, when going down a mountain, to ethnic minority villages; When traveling to remote communes in the Southern provinces and the only means of transport are 2-wheelers and canoes. Our concept: near the city, there are always many associations near and far to help, easy transportation and they can complete the programs in the day easily. We vows to go to remote areas to help the poor. In 2018, there were many natural disasters in the United States, so charity work in Vietnam was also limited in budget. The Association would like to focus on the education section, helping with programs that help students. November, received a letter of help from ethnic minorities in Truong Xuan commune in Quang Binh. Thinking about the children in the mountains without a winter coat this winter, we are very concern. Tu Bi Foundation volunteers in Hanoi customized 74 sweaters for children from 1 to 16 years old to distribute at their school in ethnic minorities in Trường Nam and Bản Hang Chuồn villages, Nà Lâm. When looking at the gift-giving pictures, we were so happy to see the happiness of the children and their parents when given the shirts were brought to each student. It’s sad to see so many kids walking barefoot!
If all goes well, Tu Bi plan to return to Van Kieu villages to give gifts. Hopefully, there is a budget for us to be able to give more gifts to students in surrounding villages and some poor families in Truong Xuan and Truong Son communes in Quang Binh on the occasion of the Lunar New Year in 2019. Life is very difficult without fields and land to grow crops.
Dear Ms. Duyen,
The regions that belong to the host group are mainly concerned with the poor ethnic minorities. In the upland areas, the pupils and students still have many difficulties, if they can help the children with warm clothes and filters water, and other essential needs.
Sincerely thank you,
Em Tai
Inauguration of School Water Well, November 2, 2018
Lâm Đồng: give water well ceremony and gifts to the people in Đam Rông district
On November 2, 2018, the Buddhist Charity board in Lâm Đồng inaugurated the “School Water Well” and presented gifts in Đam Rông which is one of the 62 poorest district of the country, it also have the highest ethnic minority population at 65%.
Responding to the submission for clean water well to the board of directors at Phi Liêng primary school – Pop Lé village, Đam Rông district – reason being that the old water well was near the toilet was seriously polluted. Tu Bi Foundation has considered and financed the fund for industrial drilling wells at Phi Lieng Primary School, including a 110m underground water pumping system. Water pumping system, storage tank to provide for school activities. There are more than 300 students who are children of ethnic minorities, teachers and neighborhoods nearby. When there is a drought, people in the area can also come for water. For many years, schools had to buy drinking water for teachers and students to drink because of the polluted water. For this reason the School Water Well project was implemented. In particular, the budget of the well is funded by 2 benefactors, dedicating the merit to Vũ Văn Phương and Mr. Thân Thị Bích Đào who passed away in 2018. Much appreciation, may the merit of this work bring peace to their respective families and may they transition to a peaceful world.
In the joy and excitement, the school Principal expressed: “We are grateful to receive attention from Lâm Đồng Buddhist Charity and Tu Bi Foundation, the kind concern for our teachers and students as well as their relatives. On behalf of all the relatives here, we sincerely thank the monks, nuns and our benefactors. From now on clean water will be available, the school will not be afraid of the electric bill for pumping water for people around the area … ”.
In addition, Lâm Đồng Buddhist Charity gave gifts to the poor families and students. This is an invaluable gift for schools and relatives in the region. Water is a source of life that each of us cannot survive!
We are grateful to the charity committee of Lâm Đồng, the teachers and monks who accompanied Tu Bi Foundation, and our benefactors in taking this project to successful completion.
Tu Bi Foundation
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