25 years of the founding of our Viet Toc Foundation marks the blessings of the vocation to serve the Tribal people in 30 regions of the five provinces of Vietnam. We provide clean water, medicine especially for the leper colonies, food, and shelters.
. Beautiful model of having older J’Rai students assigned to help teach not only academically but share their lives, celebrating their common history, culture and tradition.
Viet Toc’s people visit leper colonies and provide whatever aid they can. Lepers are segregated in ramshackle communities with their children, where they receive little medical attention and must survive in squalid living conditions.
Love has the power to connect and spread. Those who have a heart for the poor and love for their homeland are invited and gathered to make small material contribution, but full of love to contribute to improving the lives of poor and undereducated brothers and sisters.
During my time there they had over 15 children whom they were tutoring. They both choose to return to the village they grew up in, to relive the conditions, in order to give the children of their village a better chance of achieving what they did.
They’ve kind of gotten pushed back further and further in the mountains.
Their land was passed down from generation to generation, but over time outsiders have just moved in and claimed it, especially in areas with good, clean water.
The day that our group went to the leper colony was one of the best days that I have had here in Vietnam. I believe that the devil was really trying to keep us from going but we just laughed about the experiences and kept going with God at our side.
Looking into their innocent eyes made me feel helpless; there was nothing that I could do to stop the tragic future that was in store for them.
Even though, those gifts were small compared to the major losses faced by many flood victims; however, they did, speak of the love, care, concerns, and compassions from numerous people.
From a poor village in South Vietnam to a refugee camp in the Philippines and finally to the suburbs of America, my mom has always wanted to ensure a brighter future for me and my siblings.