Welcome to our blog! We are very excited about traveling to Vietnam and time is beginning to fly by. As many of you know we are participating in the Catalyst Foundation's 2010 Vietnam Aid Expedition. We have 80 volunteers, as young as 7 years old, traveling to Kien Giang (the southern most province of Vietnam near the Cambodian border). We will build a home and playground, provide medical assistance to over 2000 people and reach out to the 300 children the Catalyst Foundation serves in Vietnam.
Our fund raising efforts are well underway and we are close to our goal, thanks to the support we have received from near and afar. Friends, neighbors, co-workers, classmates, we thank you all for your generosity. I am touched by your enthusiasm for our mission.
An Chi has been offering up beautiful hand crafted dragonflies to her classmates for a donation. The dragonflies are bamboo and quite enchanting -- they balance on your finger tip. The girls in class love them and they, along with Mrs. McConnell (first grade teacher extraordinaire) have been particularly wonderful in helping An Chi meet her fund raising goals for the trip.
Right now the class is putting together "Hygiene kits" (tooth brush, paste, bar of soap, comb, brush) for the first grade class in Vietnam. I'm going to have everyone in class self address an envelope and hopefully the kids in Vietnam will send them a letter!
We invite you will follow our blog -- luckily we have wireless in our hotel room in Kien Giang, so we'll do out best to keep you tuned in to what we are up to.
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