Love Of Vietnam Expressed

NEWSLETTER

www.loveofvn.org

LAST MONTHS

February was a welcome break for LOVE and the staff.  Our staff returned to work on February 7 and we spent most of the rest of February for mission trips and March for meeting children, sorting school reports, translating letters, visiting some new applications, and visiting all of our sponsored children, especially to check on some whose financial situation has improved to determine if they need continued help and how much.

The first months of the year, the weather turned cold. The atmosphere of this year's Tet is somewhat bleak, partly because of the weather, mostly because of the epidemic. The street does not have as many flowers as in previous years. But it doesn't matter; we still continue our journey of giving love to children and disadvantaged people in places that need help. What we bring to give are gifts of food, warm hats and enthusiastic hearts.

We had the opportunity to visit the social protection center of Quang Ngai province. This is also a place for orphans and elderly people who have no one to take care of. Also in Quang Ngai, we went to mountainous children in Son Ha district. We visit and bring food for the children who have lost their parents and have no one to take care of them. There are children who have to fend for themselves from a very young age.

All of the areas LOVE have visited and given food support to the disabled, the poor, the elderly and children are located in Quang Nam, Quang Ngai and Kon-Tum where we are helping the medical cabinet. Seeing the smiles, the tears, and listening to their tangled thanks, we know how much these small gifts mean to them.

The trips, the visits, the meetings, the conversations made us realize that there are many difficult places on this S-shaped piece of land. But we know that, even though we may go to many places, the most remote lands, only love from God can reach the deepest part of man.

And yes, we are running for this…

L.O.V.E. still continues to need your prayers and financial helps for plan to distribute books and school uniforms and materials to poor village schools in mountainous areas.

  We have received calls from poor churches in mountainous areas and have surveyed about more than 500 poor students in 3 schools and an orphanage. After visiting we found that they really need help for notebooks and school supplies during the new school year (July and August).  

   We wish to help each packet with notebooks, pens, handbags and sandals for we see that these items are very necessary to the children there before the new school year.  There are many students in these mountainous areas that go to school barefoot and without a schoolbag or notebooks.   The estimated cost for one packet will 8$ per child and the total cost is $4000.

  We will try to bring some of students in our program and volunteers to the school here so they can hold a happy day with fun games, and laughs and something to learn too. Yet, we need your donation to make this very day happen to the children here as they deserve it.

(Luke 6:38 NKJV) "Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you."