The Compassion Flower (TCF)
In the last week of March 2025, we organized a medical mission to the impoverished high mountain villages of Nam Dong and the coastal village of Giang Hai in Hương Thuy, Hue city, Central Vietnam region. We served 800 patients through examinations, treatments, dispensing drugs, and donating gift packages to patients valued at 40 USD that included medicine, rice, instant noodles, milk, blankets, warm jackets, soap, dried foods, reading glasses, and cash in an envelope. We also found some terminal illness patients and later supported them for better treatment at the central hospital. Total expenses = 40,080 USD (including gifts, medicine, and transportation costs).
The medical mission trip was a hectic week. However, everyone was delighted with the substantial outcome and the smile on the patients’ faces.
Thank you to all doctors, nurses, and volunteers for your support, especially to all donors for your trust and donations. Regards
Vào cuối tháng 3, năm 2025, chúng tôi đã thực hiên được chuyến khám bệnh miền xa đển vùng núi cao Nam Đông, và Giang Hải, vùng đồng bằng khô cằn dọc theo miền duyên hải của Phú Lộc. Chúng tôi đã phục vụ 800 bệnh nhân qua việc khám bệnh, phát thuôc, và quà trị giá 40 USD gồm bì thơ tiền và vật phẩm như có chăn mền, sửa đặc, cá hộp, bột nêm, xà phòng, áo lạnh và kính lão cho người lớn tuổi. Tổng cọng chi phí = 40,080 USD (bao gồm quà, thuốc men và phương tiện vận chuyển). Qua chuyến khám bệnh, chúng tôi cũng tìm được và giúp đỡ vài bệnh nhân nghèo được có cơ hội chữa bệnh tại những bệnh viện lớn.
Dù rằng chuyến đi rât khó khăn đầy mệt mỏi, nhưng chúng tôi rât hạnh phúc mãn nguyện khi thấy được niềm vui và nụ cười trên khuôn mặt của bệnh nhân.
Chân thành cảm ơn sự dấn thân nhiệt tình của các vị y bác sỹ, các thiện nguyện viên, đặc biệt là long tri ân về sự tin tưởng và đóng góp của các mạnh thường quân. Trân Trọng
Education Mission 11 - 2024
On a rainy day in late November, we traveled to Huong Huu Primary School of Nam Dong (a tribal village in the mountainous areas of Thua Thien Hue province) to donate 355 blankets, 335 pillows, 355 raincoats, notebooks, and rice to all the students.
In late October and the whole moth of November, 2024, we granted 950 scholarships to underprivileged students of three (3) primary schools and 9 secondary schools and 8 primary school in remote villages ò Thừa Thiên Huế and the outskirts of Hue City.
2024
One week before TET (The Vietnamese New Year), The TCF team members distributed gift packages to 110 needy women of Hương Thủy and Phú Vang districts of Thừa Thiên Huế.
Each gift package valued at 25 USD included 16.50 USD cash and one blanket, one box of instant noodles, 500g of seasoning powder, one feminine wash, and one soap bar.
On Monday, November 20, 2023, the TCF team went to the flood-affected villages (Quảng An and Quảng Phuoc) of Quảng Điền and An Hòa of Hương Trà, Thừa Thiên Huế Việt Nam, to deliver 250 gift packages to the flood victims. Each package, valued at 800,000.00 VND = 33 USD, includes cash (300.000 VND = 12.30 USD), one blanket, one warm jacket, one box of instant noodles, 1 liter of cooking oil, 500g seasoning powder, one soap bar, one can of condensed milk, one feminine wash (300ml). The total cost of 250 gift packages = 8250 USA.
Thanks so much for your support. The next flood relief trip will be carried out by next week.
Year 2023 - Flood Relief
On Friday, 01 – Dec – 2023, we went to the coast of Giang Hải commune, which was deeply eroded by water into residential areas, to share out gift packages to 250 families that were hard hit by the flood.
In the afternoon, we went to Dap Goc, a little island of Tam Giang lagoon on the coast of Thua Thien-Hue Province, to distribute gift packages to 60 fisherfolk families.
Each family received a gift package valued at 800,000.00 VND = 33 USD
Sincerely thanks for your support
Dear all, follow is the report of TCF flood Relief third time in Vietnam.
On Tuesday & Wednesday, 05th & 6th – December 2023, we distributed gift packages to 250 families in the villages of Xuan Tuy, Hà Đồ, Quảng Thành of Quảng Điền that have been submerged in the flood water since November 15, 2023.
Each family received a gift package valued at 800,000.00 VND = 33 USD
Sincerely thanks for your support
The total cost of 3 times: 200,000,00 + 248,000,000 + 200,000,000 = 648,000,000 VND = 8,250 + 10,230 + 8,250 = 26,730 USD
Year 2023 - Medical Mission .
In the mid-spring of 2023 in Vietnam, we organized a medical mission to the impoverished high mountain villages of Huong Lap and Huong Viet that were buried by landslides in 2020; the community is still recovering from this disaster, and the remote farming coastal village Giang Hai of Thua Thien Hue.
We served 1250 patients through examinations, treatments, dispensing drugs, and donating gift packages to patients valued at 40 USD that included medicine, rice, instant noodle, milk, blanket, warm jackets, soap, dried foods, reading glasses, and cash in the red envelope.
We also found some terminal illness patients and later supported them for better treatment at the central hospital.
It was a whole hectic week of the medical mission trip. However, everyone is delighted with the substantial outcome and the smiles on the patients’ faces.
Thanks to all doctors, nurses, and volunteers for your support, especially all donors for your trust and donations.
Year 2023 - Education Mission .
On Wednesday, 27 December 2023, the TCF team and guests from California, USA, traveled to the mountainous village of Nam Dong district to donate 500kgs rice, 400 warm jackets, 150 blankets, and 500 notebooks to 380 Huong Hữu primary school students. Most students at Hương Hưu are from the Katu ethnic minority. Due to the poor economy and the lack of material necessities, the lifestyle is tough in Nam Dong. Most students at Huong go to school without warm clothes or share warm clothes with their siblings who study in different shifts. Two hundred students who live 5 km from the school can register for day school, but their parents cannot afford to pay for lunch; therefore, the school management has to reach out for donor support. The school has no budget to buy blankets or mats for students to rest over the lunch break, and we have 150 donated blankets and 60 mattresses are on the way to the school by mid-January 2024.
After lunch, we went to the coastal village of Phú Lộc to give donations to 40 students in the free class of teacher Trai who could not afford to attend the district school at a young age, nor could parents can not afford to pay for aftercare. Each student in this class received 25 USD, one warm jacket, notebooks, and a pair of sandals.
During the week from the 14th and 15th to of December 2023, the TCF team granted 350 poor students from 7schools in remote villages of Thua Thien Hue province and the outskirts of Hue city.
During the week from the 18th to 22nd of December 2023, the TCF team granted 500 poor students from 10 schools in remote villages of Thua Thien Hue province and the outskirts of Hue city.