The Vietnam Children’s Fund is proud to announce the addition of The Honorable Edward Timperlake to the VCF Board of Directors. Mr. Timperlake is a U.S. Naval Academy graduate who flew the F-4 Phantom II aircraft with the U.S. Marine Corps in Southeast Asia. He has served three presidents...
Thanks to a generous grant from Boeing Company matched by longtime Vietnam Children’s Fund supporter and friend, Mr. H.L. Lenfest, an elementary school is being built in Tan Uyen, Lai Chau Province. High in the northern mountains, the project is not far from the town of Sapa, which has...
A VCF school will be built in 2011 in Yen Bai Province thanks to a generous gift from FedEx.
Thanks to Citigroup and many generous individuals this school is serving over four hundred needy children in Thai Binh Province including those from an orphanage. Many thanks to all who contributed to this much-needed school.
Thanks to the generous contributions of The India Company 3rd Battalion 9th Marines and Friends of Danang, a badly needed school has been built in Danang. The India Company and Friends of Danang pledged $50,000 each and together with the matched pledge by VCF and donations from individual...
In a wonderful gesture of corporate good citizenship, American Eagle Outfitters of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Li and Fung (1906) Foundation Limited joined as funding partners to construct VCF’s 42nd school in Long An Province. Over 450 children are benefitting. The school accepted the...
On Saturday July 25, 2009 longtime VCF supporter Winston Ninh and his friends in San Antonio Texas held a music filled event to support the Vietnam Children’s Fund. They raised over $1500 and we thank and acknowledge all those who make this such a success including:
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29/8/2006
Left Hanoi at 5 pm for the evening flight to Ho Chi Minh City.
30/8/2006
Woke up at 4 am to catch the 6 am flight from Ho Chi Minh city to Ca Mau. Arrived at Ca Mau at 7 am. One hour after arriving we got in a taxi heading to Kien Giang to see new location for VCF’s school. It was...
Today was our first visit to one of the schools built by the Vietnam Children’s Fund, which is an NGO set up by American Veterans to build schools in rural Vietnam.
The effects of war had destroyed the educational infrastructure and the literacy rate of the country has dropped enormously...