Vietnamese Friendship Association
Vietnamese Friendship Association's mission is to empower the Vietnamese community to succeed while bridging, preserving, and promoting cultural heritage. They work to ensure that school-age children and youth receive quality education and succeed in life. They envision a society where all members of the Vietnamese community are self-reliant, successful, and contributing to the betterment of our world. SVP has supported VFA since 2009.
Total Giving: $140,000
Don’t get rid of that 3-legged chair, it’s my baby!
As a small nonprofit, we don’t take anything for granted. Funding for supplies and furniture is hard to come by, so when there’s free stuff, we usually take it. We, like other similar agencies, are like a nonprofit squirrel, hoarding supplies for the programming winter.
Why I Do What I Do
I was too young to appreciate all that my parents had gone through after the War, when our family lost everything, and Mom had to peddle 120 pounds of rice on her bicycle every morning to sell at a black market 10 miles away, coming home late in the evening, her face stung by the cold mountain air. Dad collected pine sap in the forests, carrying heavy buckets at either end of a shoulder pole.
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