Thanks from the Go Vap Orphanage
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I’ve stayed in touch with Kim Browne, the British woman who was one of the last babies airlifted out of Saigon before it fell in 1975. She is staying in Ho Chi Minh City for a few more weeks, volunteering at the Go Vap Orphanage – where she spent the first two months of her life – and looking for information about her birth mother. Kim said the orphanage will be able to save the lives of more than 50 babies born with hydrocephalus, thanks to the donated brain shunts delivered by the humanitarian tour group my father and I traveled with last week. (Read more about this special delivery in tomorrow’s Journal News.)
Kim recently uploaded this video from the orphanage’s hydrocephalus ward. And, click on the video player below to view some of the photos I took at the orphanage on Saturday.
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On behalf of an ongoing support program for congential differences in Vietnam, I invite you to visit Paul’s Kids (www.paulskids.org)
501c3to view their ongoing year round projects in Go Vap and other areas. Last year they dedicated a physiotherapy room and this year, they will be working to support a project with the International Federation for Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida as well as Handicap International Vietnam.The gift of the shunts were magnificent, and there are 2 surgeons undergoing special training at this time in order to complete endoscopic surgery training. Every little bit helps – we’re here for the long haul.
Our daughter was born premature with rickets in Vietnam and our son was born blind in Nepal. Both times we were offered ‘normal replacements’ – but they were ours from the moment we heard their names.
Thanks to their access to nutrition and health care here – there are normal healthy child who can walk and see…
We have been so thankful we have chosen to support Paulskids. It was Paul himself, who found our children and created families for life. As the adoptive parent of special needs children himself, he practices instead of preaching.
Please consider us this holiday season.