by Paige Stringer | Jul 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
Our home away from home for the next month is the DINKY – which is nothing but, by the way…located about 20 km outside of Ho Chi Minh City and a 2 mile walk to the Thuan An Center. Its definitely a respite from the gritty grime and noise of the relentless...
by Paige Stringer | Jul 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
I took a taxi into HCMC this morning for what turned out to be a truly inspiring day with Chinh from the Saigon Children’s Charity and Trinh from the Mekong Anh Duong Association. I met both of these women a few months ago when they came out to Seattle as part...
by Paige Stringer | Jul 3, 2010 | deaf education, developing countries, global foundation, teacher training, Vietnam
I arrived in Vietnam full of anticipation. As we snaked our way from the airport through Ho Chi Minh City and out to the countryside of Binh Duong province, I just had to slide open the windows of the van despite the sweltering temperature. I needed to soak up the...
by Paige Stringer | Jun 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
Thank you for checking in with us! Our team is somewhere over the Pacific en route to Vietnam…its a big planet, so please bear with us as we make our way. Our director is scheduled to arrive on July 2 and the rest of the group to follow beginning July...
by Paige Stringer | Oct 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
I have been asked various “Why” questions by friends and acquaintances curious about the Global Foundation’s work. For our final blog entry, I thought it might be useful to sum up the answers to what I am calling “The Why Factor”….-...
