Time Has Moved On

I don’t know where the time has gone since I last wrote some words for our Home Page!!!!! I guess if you all keep up with the Latest News on our website – you will realize that the wheels of life have far from stopped here in Ho Chi Minh City!
When time does move on – it is very encouraging and heartening to see such beautiful ‘shifts’ within the learning lives of the kids in our care. Their positive progress is a delight to experience and we consider it a treat and a privilege to watch headway into so many areas of their lives.
From and To

•    learning to speak/read/write (in braille), sing and play English
•    being able to climb over/around play-ground frames – because your school has them
•    balancing dexterously- despite physical disabilities - on safe, therapeutic equipment
•    creating satisfying and exciting art ‘results’
•    looking at the key-board of a new computer for the first time and you’re already in Year 5
•    going to kindergarten and receiving the best care and guidance in early education – all day
•    realizing that it’s easy to work an industrial sewing machine and maybe this is your future work – regardless of the fact that you are gloriously Down Syndrome
•     swimming for the first time in your life and moving on from grabbing your helper’s hand in alarming fear - to then ‘swimming’ alone and confidently
•    staying awake all night with excitement because from tomorrow you will have your own(new) bicycle to ride to school
•    not having to drop out of school because your parents have been boosted with significant help from a generous Scholarship
In the past weeks LVAP has reaped the fruits of seeds sown in 2011 – with three new Official Openings of new projects: others are pending for this year……… This is exciting – nevertheless the BEST fruit is what eventuates when new projects begin and ‘older’ projects are enriched in so many ways.
FRIENDS – DONORS – SUPPORTERS – FANS – DEVOTEES – ADMIRERS – THANK YOU!
LORETO TEAM – Ha My, Tam and Tin – THANK YOU!

‘Come to the edge’, he said. They said, ‘We are afraid’.
‘Come to the edge’, he said. They came. He pushed them………. and they flew.

Trish (Franklin) AO: CEO
  • 17.05.2012

    ON THE EDGE

    Last week, Ha My, Tam, Claire (member of LVAP’s Management Council) and Trish travelled to Phu Yen Province to make a reconnaissance visit to gain more information about pending projects. The Loreto Program (LVAP) has already supported ...

  • 03.05.2012

    THANK GOD! IT'S BIKE DAY.

    We will hardly forget last Friday morning when the disadvantaged pupils living in Thu Duc District HCMC received quality bicycles and helmets from the Loreto Vietnam-Australia Program (LVAP) with happiness, love and enlightenment. ...

  • 27.04.2012

    FUN-FILLED DAY AT DAM SEN PARK

    Saturday, April 21st was my lovely day. Although it was not the first time I had taken a trip with disabled students from Binh Minh School, I still felt so excited to meet my beloved children again. When ...

  • 17.04.2012

    SUNRISE FACES FROM SUNRISE SCHOOL KIDS – CAMPUS 2

    The kids of “Sunrise Special School (Campus 2) took an excursion to Dai Nam Park onThursday 12th April.Before the trip, I was a little worried if the kids would like me or not. Honestly, I don’t have much ...

  • 05.04.2012

    FRIENDS AND FRIENDS

    The Loreto Program has been supporting a little countryside school in Hoc Mon District for more than 15 years! The FRIENDSHIP with so many children who have passed through this school is deep, loving and profound. ...