Making Connections

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...

We’re On Our Way!

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...

The Why Factor

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”….-...

Teach a (Wo)man to Fish…

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said “It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely improve himself and his world without trying to help another.”Thuy, Thiep, and Ha benefited from privileged teacher training opportunities...

Bonding Over Mangos & MOUs

Thuy, the Director of Thuan An, and I have been working through the long list of details that need to be ironed out for the teacher training workshop next summer. With 85 teachers, 15 experts, 8 interpreters anticipated to travel to Thuan An for the one-month event,...

Spotlight on Thuy

I hope you enjoy this video interview that is now posted on the Global Foundation’s website. In it, Thuy, the Director of Thuan An, explains why this teacher training program that our organizations are working to implement is so important to the future of deaf...