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Archive: Orphans and Elderly Care
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

- By GVI interns Cristin, Candace and Cammie Creel Northwood arrived to Hanoi for their annual two week trip for the orphan camp and to provide assistance with Lao Cai projects. The Northwood team and the Birla children had a wonderful time bonding with one another on the Nam Dinh beach. The Birla orphanage put [...]
Tags: Birla, GVI, Nam Dinh beach, NorthWood, Summer camp
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Ernest H. never covered Vietnam, but another Hemingway did. Intrepid GVI volunteer and Elderly Care specialist Mark Hemingway gets close to the action and lives to write about his 3rd visit to Vietnam…
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Monday, May 17th, 2010

- by Dinh Thi Lan Huong “Fun Day” is a new project that GVI has recently initiated at SS3 Orphanage to teach children basic English and to build closer bonds with the kids through English games and songs, and by celebrating birthdays and having fun with them. It is repeated every 2 months. We had [...]
Tags: children, Hanoi, orphans, SS3, staff
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

GVI learned that two girls from Sponsor Society 3 (SS3) were adopted shortly after the Tet New Year Holiday in February. Trang (4) and Nga (5) have gone to France to live with their new families. The GVI staff met Trang of their first assessment visit to SS3 in July 2007. She had just arrived [...]
Tags: children, Nutrition Program, orphans, SS3
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009

In January 2008, a team from Canberra, Australia began a partnership with GVI and Manna Worldwide to provide nutrition and better diets to the children at SS3, an orphanage in Hanoi. Earlier this month, they made their first trip to Vietnam and met the children who they had been faithfully supporting.Team leader Linda Perkins reflects [...]
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