Glocal Ventures

GVI mobilized two volunteer teams to work in Lao Cai province. Skelly Drive Baptist Church from Tulsa, OK sent a team of 7 to San Sa Ho school in Sapa district, and NorthWood Church from Keller, TX sent a team of 8 to Bac Ha district. The team from Skelly Drive worked hard to pave [...]

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 [...]

The Hung King Temple Festival is held annually the 1oth day of the third  month of the lunar calendar (April 23 this year on the Western-solar calendar). It is a national public holiday. Many people make a pilgrimage to the Hung (pronounced “Hoom”) Temple on Nghia Linh Mountain in Phu Tho Province, about 85km northwest [...]

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 [...]

NorthWood Church recently welcomed a group from the Hanoi Young Business Association (HYBA) on a Study Tour of companies in the the Dallas-Fort Worth area. “BEST” members (Business Elite Social Trust, a select group from within the HYBA) were introduced to the Corporate Social Responsibility programs at DFW companies. A few members of the Study [...]

I was filming a video of Mark giving stickers to the village children. In an effort to get a slightly wider angle, I stepped back – straight off of a six foot ledge…

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A group of Hanoi Business Leaders recently embarked on a Study Tour of companies in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that practice Corporate Social Responsibility. Trip leader and HYBA vice-president Dr. Dang Dzung writes about the trip Hanoi Young Business Association (HYBA) is a most well-known business organization in the greater region of Hanoi. It has [...]