Volunteers' Corner

My Thoughts and Experience with SAP-VN

By Chi Vu,  November 2005

At first, my volunteering tasks comprised of photo copying before and after pictures of children being sponsored for orthopedic surgeries, folding newsletters,data entry, and other administrative tortures that the veterans of SAP-VN could think of to test the endurance of the new kid on the block. Just kidding…they are the nicest group of people I have ...

Social Assistance Program for Vietnam - volunteer chi vu

My First Trip with SAP-VN

By Thi-Anh Tran, November 2005

Almost six weeks after our Mobile Care trip to Vietnam, I can still hum to the tune of our driver’s cell phone ring as we traveled to each of our locations. I can remember the feeling of anxiousness and excitement as our vans drove through the single one-way dirt roads to each of the four villages we worked in. All the village people would emerge from their man-made huts ...

Social Assistance Program for Vietnam - volunteer thi-anh tran

Journey of Healing

By Jean Lieu, DPM

I didn’t know what to expect on this trip, but I was prepared for the worst. Armed with antibiotics, mosquito repellent, anti-diarrhea medicines, anti-itch medicines, cortisone creams, avian flu medicines, sleeping pills to prevent jet lag and a score of medicines to combat anything that I might even have a remote chance of catching, I was prepared to wage ...

Social Assistance Program for Vietnam - volunteer Jean Lieu

My First Trip to Viet Nam

By Vicking Dang, 2004

The first thing people warned me about when I decided to go back to Vietnam was the heat and poverty. It would be my first trip to the country since my family left in 1978. There is always someone who has been back to Vietnam recently ready to provide more information, but it could never be the same as going home yourself. Walking out of the airport into ...

My First Trip to Viet Nam