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The Phong & Bao Duong Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to expanding educational opportunities, supporting essential health care for children in need, preserving Vietnamese language and culture, and empowering youth in the arts and literature.

10/18/2026

❤️‍🩹Saving Lives, One Heart at a Time

Congratulations to bé Võ Minh Chính, a 4-year old from Quãng Ngãi for a successful heart surgery. He was suffered from Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), a serious congenital heart defect that requires open-heart surgery to correct the structural defects, commonly around 3–6 months of age.

We’re so touched receiving the thank you letter from his parents. We wish you a lifetime of health, growing up with life full of joy and happiness, con!

——-
THƯ CẢM ƠN

Kính gửi:
Ông Dương Thanh Phong và Bà Nguyễn Phượng Bảo

Tôi tên là Võ Văn Viễn, là phụ huynh, người đại diện của cháu Võ Minh Chính, nơi ở hiện tại thôn Yên Bình, xã La Đắc, tỉnh Quảng Ngãi.

Hôm nay, khi con tôi đã trải qua ca phẫu thuật tim thành công và sức khỏe đang dần hồi phục từng ngày, gia đình chúng tôi viết những dòng này với lòng biết ơn vô hạn và sự xúc động sâu sắc nhất gửi đến ông bà.

Hoàn cảnh gia đình cháu khó khăn, khi bác sĩ thông báo cháu mắc bệnh tim bẩm sinh và cần một số tiền lớn để phẫu thuật, vợ chồng tôi như rơi vào tuyệt vọng, không biết phải xoay sở đâu ra chi phí lớn đến vậy trong lúc ngặt nghèo.

Nhưng ơn trên đã cho gia đình tôi gặp được những tấm lòng nhân ái quý giá. Nhờ sự quan tâm, sẻ chia và số tiền hỗ trợ vô cùng kịp thời của ông Dương Thanh Phong và bà Nguyễn Phượng Bảo, cháu đã có kinh phí để bước vào phòng mổ và giành lại sự sống.

Ơn của trời, chính là tình cảm lớn lao này không chỉ giúp gia đình vượt qua gánh nặng kinh tế ngàn cân, mà còn thắp lại tương lai, nụ cười và nhịp đập khỏe mạnh cho cháu. Ân huệ này gia đình chúng tôi xin khắc ghi suốt đời.

Gia đình chúng tôi kính chúc ông Dương Thanh Phong và bà Nguyễn Phượng Bảo luôn luôn dồi dào sức khỏe, bình an, hạnh phúc và gặt hái thêm nhiều thành công trong cuộc sống.

Mong rằng tấm lòng vàng của ông bà sẽ mãi mãi lan tỏa những điều tốt đẹp đến cộng đồng.

Một lần nữa, gia đình chúng tôi cảm ơn ông và bà rất nhiều.

Trân trọng,
Thay mặt gia đình

(Chữ ký)
Võ Văn Viễn

09/10/2026

Saving lives, one heart at a time! ❤️

We were deeply moved by Trung’s heartfelt letter. We wish him a lifetime of health and happiness!

“Thanks to your generosity, I was given the opportunity to undergo a successful heart transplant and, by great fortune, was given a second chance at life, allowing me to cross back from the boundary between life and death.

The beating of this new heart in my chest today is truly a miracle—a precious gift of life that you have given me.”

———
Full text in Vietnamese.

THƯ CẢM ƠN

Kính gửi:
Ông Dương Thanh Phong
Bà Nguyễn Phượng Bảo

Lời đầu tiên con xin trân trọng gửi tới hai quý nhà hảo tâm lời kính chúc sức khỏe, an lành và lời chào trân trọng nhất!

Con xin phép được viết lá thư này để bày tỏ lòng biết ơn sâu sắc và chân thành nhất tới tấm lòng của quý vị, về sự hỗ trợ chi phí vô cùng quý báu và kịp thời của Ông/Bà, con đã có cơ hội thực hiện ca phẫu thuật ghép tim thành công và may mắn được hồi sinh, cuộc đời sống kịp thời bước qua ranh giới sinh tử. Nhịp đập trái tim mới trong lồng ngực của con ngày hôm nay chính là phép màu kỳ diệu mà Ông/Bà đã ban tặng!

Tình yêu thương cùng tấm lòng nhân ái bao la của quý Ông/Bà, như ngọn hải đăng dẫn cho con một trái tim khỏe mạnh, một đời mới mà con còn trọn niềm tin và sự trân trọng cuộc sống cho cả gia đình con. Tấm chân tình cao đẹp này con cùng gia đình xin nguyện ghi khắc trọn đời.

Nhân đây, con xin kính chúc ông Dương Thanh Phong và bà Nguyễn Phượng Bảo luôn dồi dào sức khỏe, bình an, hạnh phúc và luôn gặp nhiều may mắn, vạn sự như ý trong cuộc sống!

Con xin trân trọng cảm ơn!

TP.HCM, ngày 5 tháng 8 năm 2026
Người viết thư

Trần Đức Trung

07/30/2026

Saving Lives, One Heart at a Time

Trần Đức Trung is a 15-year-old boy from Đồng Tháp whose mother is a single parent raising two sons, including a 6-year-old child with autism. She earns about 10 million VND (approximately $400) per month, making it nearly impossible to afford the cost of her son’s treatment.

Trung developed end-stage heart failure caused by dilated cardiomyopathy (bệnh cơ tim giãn) and recently underwent a life-saving heart transplant. Thankfully, the surgery was successful, and he is recovering well. Vietnam has made remarkable advances in heart transplantation, with major medical centers now routinely performing these complex, life-saving procedures.

At the Phong & Bao Duong Foundation, we are honored to support children like Trung. Every child deserves the opportunity to grow up healthy, pursue their dreams, and live a full life.

Together, we are saving lives, one heart at a time.

07/26/2026

The Doan Gala IV last night was such a blast! Thanks again, The Doan Foundation and Dennis Dizzy Doan, for making such a big difference in these young talents’ lives and for letting us Phong & Bao Duong Foundation be a small part of such an amazing cause. Looking forward to next year!

05/25/2026

Congratulations to bé Diễm Kiều on the successful surgery for mitral valve stenosis. We wish you a smooth and speedy recovery! May you continue to grow up healthy, strong, and full of smiles. 💕

Chúc mừng bé Diễm Kiều đã phẫu thuật hẹp van tim thành công! Chúc con mau hồi phục, luôn khỏe mạnh và lúc nào cũng tràn đầy những nụ cười hạnh phúc!

04/24/2026

Thank you, Dennis Dizzy Doan and The Doan Foundation, for the amazing work! We're grateful for the opportunity to support such talented young artists and look forward to celebrating with the scholarship recipients at the Doan Gala 2026!

01/20/2026

A Winter Heart

It was a summer noon in Saigon in the early 1980s, the kind of heat that presses down without mercy. A group of children were running laps during physical education. Among them was a sixth-grade girl—short hair, frail frame, struggling to keep pace. Halfway around the yard, her face drained of color. Her breathing turned frantic. Then she collapsed, unconscious, onto the concrete.

She was born on the first day of winter, and her heart had never fully learned how to be whole.

I would not meet her until years later, but this was where her story began.

She was born with Patent Ductus Arteriosus, a congenital heart defect in which a vessel meant to close shortly after birth remains open. Blood flows where it should not. The heart strains. Pressure builds in the lungs. In places with access to modern medicine, infants with this condition are usually operated on within weeks—sometimes days—of birth.

Her mother brought a doctor’s note to the school, asking that her daughter be excused from physical education. The principal refused. She dismissed the diagnosis as an excuse, accused the girl of being pampered, unwilling to exert herself. If she could not run, the principal said, she should not attend school at all.

And so she stopped going.

When she told me this years later, she said the illness itself was not what hurt most. What hurt was the loss of childhood—the long days at home, the quiet shame, the ache of watching classmates pass by with books in their arms.

As time went on, her condition worsened. Then help came from far away. Her uncle escaped Vietnam and settled in Canada. Through them, a woman named Barbara, along with a church community, stepped forward to sponsor her. On humanitarian grounds, the Canadian government approved her case with unusual speed.

She arrived in Canada in late December, into a world of snow and silence. In Toronto, she underwent open-heart surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children. The operation succeeded. She was young; her recovery was swift. But the scar remained—long, pale, running along the left side of her back—a private reminder she carried for years.

When I met her at university, she was no longer fragile. She had grown into a young woman of quiet strength and unmistakable beauty. Early on, she told me about her heart, almost as a warning—an invitation not to expect too much. Had she said nothing, I would never have known.

But the heart has its own reasons. Que sera, sera. I chose to stay.

A few years later, our two children were born—healthy, bright, alive. Cardiologists later called her case extraordinary. They could not explain how someone deemed “high-risk” had endured so much, or how she had become a mother at all. Still, because her surgery came late—at fifteen—the disease left traces that never fully disappeared.

Her winter heart may never have been ordinary, but it has always been generous.

In December 2023, we founded the Phong & Bao Duong Foundation to help children in Vietnam receive surgery for congenital heart disease—to offer them what she was given decades earlier: time, possibility, a future.

As for Barbara, after the surgery she moved to New Brunswick, on Canada’s eastern edge. Contact faded. She entered our lives when hope was nearly gone, and then, just as quietly, she disappeared.

Perhaps that is how miracles arrive—not loudly, not forever. They come when we are most vulnerable, stay just long enough to change a life, and leave behind something enduring: the knowledge that compassion, freely given, can alter fate.

01/06/2026

Saving Lives, One Heart At A Time

2023: ❤️
2024: ❤️
2025: ❤️❤️
2026: ❤️❤️❤️❤️ (target)

In 2025, two children in Saigon underwent successful heart surgeries.
In 2026, we hope to double that number and give more families the gift of hope.

01/04/2026

𝗣𝗛𝗢𝗡𝗚 & 𝗕𝗔𝗢 𝗗𝗨𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡
Est. 2023

𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧

The Phong & Bao Duong Foundation is committed to improving the lives of children and youth by expanding access to quality education, supporting essential health care, preserving Vietnamese language and culture, and empowering future generations in the arts and literature. We strive to uplift underserved communities and leave a lasting legacy of opportunity, wellness, and cultural pride.

𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗙𝗢𝗖𝗨𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗦

𝗘𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡
We work to expand educational opportunities for economically and socially disadvantaged students.

Through scholarships and academic support, the Foundation helps young people who demonstrate academic excellence, leadership potential, and a commitment to their communities pursue higher education and long-term success.

𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗛

The Foundation is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of underprivileged children living with congenital heart defects.

We provide financial assistance for lifesaving medical surgeries and treatments, helping ensure that every child has a chance to grow, thrive, and reach their full potential.

𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗨𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗖𝗨𝗟𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡

We are committed to promoting and preserving Vietnamese language, culture, and heritage for present and future generations in the United States.

The Foundation provides grants to schools, institutions, and community organizations that advance Vietnamese language instruction, cultural education, and intergenerational community engagement.

𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘

The Foundation seeks to empower Vietnamese American youth to pursue creative pathways in the arts and literature.

We offer scholarships and program support to students who demonstrate exceptional talent and enroll in college programs focused on creative writing, visual arts, performing arts, or related fields.

𝗢𝗥𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗭𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗦

The Phong & Bao Duong Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable corporation organized under the laws of the State of California. It is classified as a private foundation under Section 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code.

EIN: 99-0467020.

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