We only have a part of the population that are covered by health insurance. And we have quite a lot of low-income people, living in remote areas, lacking medical and social knowledge. Even up to the higher level hospitals in the city, there are still many unhappy life scenes. Sometimes just looking at the amount on the prescription, the test order, the payment request will cause both the patient and the family headache, dizzying. Even food and transportation to the hospital cannot be afforded, how can they be treated. So they escaped from the hospital and went home, used simple Vietnamese herbs to get by, and endured the pain.

There have been many charitable groups and donors who regularly help poor patients. And we, the Charity Fund, also contribute a little bit of it. We don’t expect to do much but it is better to give a little than nothing. The project is gradually building a team of Volunteers who stay in the hospital to provide medical assistance to poor patients. The process, support criteria, etc. are increasingly completed with the best efforts.

Poor patients worry when buying medicine. Photo of Tuoi Tre newspaper dated August 17, 2012

The precursor of this project is “Pain Relief Fund” implemented by a charity group in collaboration with Weekend Saigon Entrepreneur Magazine, in 2004. Please quote the 2004 open letter for donation.

There is a certain afternoon of relaxation, sitting and thinking about my life, the passages of life, the happiness will come. There are days of overwhelming happiness, some days of hardship. Then think about the life that will come, who can be sure that they will be happiness forever. Happiness can sometimes be grasped in the hand with an eternal and optimistic will, but calamity is very extreme. Whoever dares to claim forever that their health is so plentiful that their sickness never overlooks. In the scourges of life, sickness will come to people like an unstoppable, inanimate force. The best attitude towards this type of disaster is that of waiting, no matter what kind of medical care you are receiving in the world.

Fortunately, we still have the capacity to be cured if one day illness comes knocking on the door. But many others do not. One afternoon you try to go to an after-hours clinic that specializes in oncology. In the few dozen patients who come to the clinic, there will be a few positive cancer patients who have metastasized. Maybe it was a austere man from some upland field in Lam Dong, homeless in an old piece of shirt, walking spindly thanks to the guidance of his sick daughter. Sometimes he was a bright-eyed boy from the West. Both his father and mother left the field and took him to Saigon for medical treatment. They are both poor in poverty and austerity. And they are very similar in attitude of being dumbfounded when they hear the doctor explain about the end-stage cancer that they unfortunately have. Then followed by a series of days of healing, writhing physical pain, and a catastrophe that fell on the whole family, which was also very difficult to get dressed. Every day in hospitals in this city, there are few people like that, relatives in the family look at each other in a daze before the disaster so suddenly, die when reading the results of a grimly positive test. my illness. Then a long series of days later in the hospital bed, when the great savings will eventually go away because they cannot follow the long battle of sickness, the patient and their relatives just look at each other and wait for death, desperate suffering on the sick body, but the helpless suffering of the rest who watched their loved ones groan was equally tragic.

Just one dose of pain reliever, a suitable treatment medicine is what the patient need to ease the pain, more luckily overcome pain, fight the disease with the chance to recover and heal. Just a simple case of a few hundred thousand, a few million VND but sometimes becomes a terrible burden of pressure on poor patient families. It becomes a magical dream as if a blessing high up in heaven. The “impossible” sometimes becomes “possible”, despair turns into hope if only some money is needed at the moment.

Emergency relief programs

Emergency assistance projects for people in areas hit by natural disasters, storms and floods

Education and skill training programs

With the belief that only through education can poor children have a chance to change their fate. Lotus Charity Foundation has implemented a number of Education Projects to help poor children having more possibilities to go to school. The Fund hopes to receive the support of benefactors.

Below are some ongoing projects of Lotus Charity Foundation:

+ 3rd Smile Project – I go to school:

Head of project: Mr. Tran Trong Thuc

Sponsor and supervise the education of poor children who cannot go to school or are in danger of dropping out.

+ 7th Smile Project- Helping orphans

Head of project: Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Nghia

Sponsoring education for orphans in orphanages, compassion houses, and shelters.

+ 2nd Smile Project – School of love:

Head of project: Ms. Phan Thi Chau

Overtime classes give poor children a chance to learn

Construction programs

Construction projects such as Supporting houses for the lonely elderly, building bridges to help people escape poverty, schools for children in remote areas, projects to supply clean water to rural areas, etc.

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