Glocal Ventures

The Hanoi University of Education (Dai Hoc Su Pham Ha Noi) presented Glocal Ventures, Inc. with an award recognizing its “many contributions to the process of creating and developing the Department of Special Education in the years 2001-2011.”

Huong safely delivered a healthy daughter at 4 pm on Saturday, May 8 at the French Hospital in Hanoi. Her daughter was born at a healthy 3 kg (6.6 lbs). Baby’s nickname is May (for her birth month) and at the moment, it’s her only name. Huong is having a hard time deciding on her official name…

- 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 [...]

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 [...]

GVI is very happy to welcome Hoang Thi Bic to our team! NorthWood volunteers first met Bic years ago when she worked Alfresco’s restaurant, a favourite hangout of our volunteers in Hanoi (every team eats there at least once a trip!). She worked in a number of capacities with the Alfresco’s group and eventually landed [...]

- by Gail Wallace I have been trying to find words to adequately express what a blessing it was to meet the Vietnamese Study Tour delegation. Each of the delegates was so eager to talk and to share information about their companies or positions in business or government. Each member was very impressive in terms [...]