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No Other Word For It
August 19th, 20102,000 Cubic Feet of Concrete. 2 Days. 114 F. No Whining. Boo-yah!
August 19th, 2010
Leading off with what may be the best sound bite of all GVI newsletters published so far, veteran trip leader Hank Reed recounts NorthWood’s 10th Orphanage Support trip
A great trip. Every challenge was met with a smile and a can do attitude. Anytime you can go in and pour over 2,000 cubic feet of [...]
Ta Phin Hard Ground Now Soft Soil
August 19th, 2010
Monica Laurendeau from Forefront Church, Virginia Beach, writes about her third summer serving in Ta Phin, Lao Cai.
Most of my time this year was spent teaching. Yeah, I know I’m not a real teacher, but I certainly learned that God can do amazing things using plain ordinary people. The teacher’s conference was for [...]
GVI Contributes to 15 Years of US-VN Relations
August 2nd, 2010
July 2010 marks the 15th anniversary of normalized diplomatic relations between the US and Vietnam. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton was in Hanoi to celebrate the occassion.
GVI got in on the celebrations as one of the NGO sponsors of the event. Several pictures of our volunteers and our projects were shown on a Powerpoint loop [...]
Corporate Social Responsibility on the Right Track
June 25th, 2010
I feel truly blessed to have been able to be part of this trip and experience a small slice of Vietnam. While I came over intending to be on a panel for the conference, and in essence, helping to “teach” on the topic of Human Relations, I came back to the U.S. realizing that I was actually the student in many ways…
Counting Calories for Corporate Conference
June 21st, 2010Hemingway’s Vietnam Diary
May 27th, 2010Huong Had Her Baby!
May 19th, 2010Everything Happens For a Reason
May 18th, 2010
- by Hoang Thi Bic, administrator and newest member of GVI’s team
I met NorthWood teams years ago when I was a waitress at Alfrescos restaurant. I was so appreciative of what they were doing for Vietnamese people, especially for the kids. I was deeply impressed by their kindness (I thought to myself, “I am Vietnamese [...]



