I had an amazing day doing the monthly charity for Pure Vietnam Beauty and Spa.
I went to a Pagoda about 40kms south of Nha Trang. This Pagoda has 70 children in it ranging from 8 months to sixteen years of age with some of the children having disabilities. Downs syndrome, spina bifida, cleft palatte were some that I recognized and some I didn’t recognize. They do it fairly tuff here because they are not easily accessible like the other orphanages in Nha Trang (not that any of them have an easy time).
Some friends of ours had given us some money to buy things for orphans.Jacob George, Kim Chi Tran, Robyn Glasgow and daughter Tarja and Nguyen Lanh.
I decided to pool the money along with some of ours and bought a couple og kilos of dried mushrooms, many bags of fake meat (Buddhist’s can’t eat meat), cartons of milk, boxes of noodles, lots of rice, and chuppa chups.
I hired a car and went with Minh Hiền a friend of hers and one of our security guards who wanted to do charity.Steve Brown and the rest of the staff had to work.
These kids are shy yet want to talk and touch. They all want attention.
They who have nothing shared their lunch with us. It was their honor to be able to give to us because we gave to them. A very humbling experience. It was a delicious lunch of pumpkin, fried sweet potato, rice and zucchini soup. The older boys are so studious and are very keen to practice their English. Some of the older boys kept studying through lunch. (maybe they had an exam coming up?)
We gave out milk and chuppa chups. Each child would only have one chuppa chups with many of the older boys giving the younger children theirs so they had two.
We should all take a moment to appreciate what we have and especially on Mother’s Day appreciate those who have given to us selflessly.
It is both a humbling but an incredibly uplifting experience to be able to help someone else even just a little.
