Dear
Friends,
On Sunday
evening, November 16th,
Hope for Children in Vietnam (HCV)
will mark its 5th
anniversary. We invite you to join us in
celebration and to help support hundreds
of impoverished orphans and street
children in Vietnam.
Five years
ago, HCV (a US-registered public
charity) began raising money and
volunteer help from diverse Americans in
this country so that we could work
directly with community leaders in the
Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City region to help
the children. For the past five years,
we have purchased supplies in the local
Vietnamese markets for some of Vietnam's
neediest youngsters.
These
supplies include healthy food,
educational materials and medical items.
In a rented van, we personally deliver
the supplies to Buddhist orphanages,
Catholic homes and rural schools. HCV
also makes small grants to exceptionally
needy orphanages, for example, to enable
one to build a roof and another to
construct a clean, safe kitchen with an
eating area for its 30 children. We do
this work as volunteers.
Such a
personal, direct way to help is not only
cost effective (98% of money raised goes
directly to the youngsters), it is an
enlightening way to strengthen ties
between our two cultures.
Please join
us to celebrate HCV's work and
help assure a brighter future for the
children.
Event: A celebration of
Vietnamese culture with dinner,
traditional
Vietnamese fashions, music, spectacular
Dragon Dance,
and
photos of the children and HCV's
programs
Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008,
6pm - 9pm
Place: The Fortune Restaurant
6249
Seven Corners Center (off Rt. 50), Falls
Church, VA
Contribution: Sponsored tables
of 10 people as an Angel
for $1,000
or
Guardian for $750.
Individuals at $40
Make your
checks and contributions (tax-deductible
to the extent of the law) payable to:
Hope for Children in Vietnam.
Using the HCV address in this
invitation, please include your mailing
and email addresses. RSVP by November
6. We will send your tickets and
driving directions to The Fortune
Restaurant with our sincere thanks!
For more
information on HCV and the
Vietnamese celebration November 16,
please email Phuong My Tran (mytran3@gmail.com)
or Sandra Willett Jackson
(swjackson@3creekfarm.com)
or visit:
www.hopeforchildreninvietnam.org
On behalf of
the children, we thank you!
