11/25/2016
Partnering with RightStart4Kids (a Chicago-based NGO in USA), Tom Nguyen and Dirk Tussing are in Vietnam working with a local NGO to provide 800 cataract operations in rural Mekong Delta. Here are a few pics for 70-90 recipients treated on November 18, 2016. RS4K donation is only $2-$3 USD, significantly discounted for this operation thanks to local surgeons donating their time and bringing high quality equipment from Saigon.
The local NGO is the Association for the Support People with Disabilities-Orphans-poor patient An Giang province (Founded in 1993). From January 2016 report we found online, the following was translation from Vietnamese to English: "they have always been the gathering place of gold hearts, who are devoted to their work charitable society in the province. Pass that along to the State to care for the unfortunate, they are the poor, the most difficult in the poor, pitiful circumstances in life that they can not alone overcome the difficulties which require the help of a social community." Included in the pictures below is a copy of a letter explaining in Vietnamese the November 18, 2016 An Giang group. Also included in the set of pictures is a certificate from a similar NGO in the next province, Can Tho, for another project we'll post a bit more on soon.
