In rural Vietnam, eight out of every ten children do not go to school because their parents cannot afford to send them. Due to the lack of basic educational and occupational skills, these children often end up resorting to petty crime in order to survive. In 1980, Ms. Anh-Huong Nguyen started a charitable project to provide relief to the poor people in Vietnam, her native country. The project now supports poor children and orphans in the remote, war-torn areas of Quang Tri and Thua Thien, where many children have lost their parents to starvation, diseases, and previously unexploded bombs and land mines left from the war.
Assistance is given to children of all religions.
Relief efforts center on enabling poor children to attend schools located in the remote villages of Central Vietnam free of charge. With this knowledge, the children will eventually be able to learn different occupations so that they can both support themselves and help support their families. The schoolhouses are thatched huts built with mud. Since the region is frequently hit by natural disasters such as typhoons and floods, schools are often totally destroyed and must be rebuilt from scratch. Without these lunches, the children will only have one meal a day because that is all their parents can afford to feed them.