Background A group of small businesses and nonprofit community-based organizations are launching a community-giving effort through two operations: Meals of Love, to bring meals, and Safety for All, to bring PPEs. VANGO participation is part of our ongoing COVID-19 relief efforts in USA and Vietnam. What The Operation on Meals […]
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Press Release Contact: Cathy Lam [cathylam@va-ngo.org, 1-714-330-3589] Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 Vietnamese American Non-Governmental Organization Network Awarded California Arts Council Artists in Communities Grant State funds support “MEKONG—The Water’s Tales,” a project highlighting the music and life along the Mekong River, through a workshop series joining Southeast Asian […]
VANGO Network is joining ConnectNGive.org this Tuesday, May 5th, 2020 for Giving Tuesday. Some nurses and doctors have been rationed down to 1 face mask a day due to COVID-19 related shortages. This challenges their work efficiency and safety, putting both themselves and their patients at risk. VANGO Network has […]
We are so excited to share our partnership with Yum Cha Studios to provide the Vietnamese translation of their (free) Dim Sum Warriors COVID-19 quiz. Special thank you to Design Capital Asia HIPE coordinators Võ Thị Kiều Hân and Trần Thị Như Hồng who worked on this translation as […]
Thank you to everyone who has been supporting our VANGO COVID-19 relief efforts. Your donations have helped us to bring PPE supplies to health care workers and first responders every week since March locally and as far as New York, Illinois (Chicago), Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), and Florida as well as […]
Vietnam is in lockdown and most of USA is sheltering in place, so our very own HIPE PHE and RONG House intern Ni wanted to share her recipe for mắm ruốc rim (Vietnamese caramelized shrimp sauce) to help make this time a little more flavorful. This dipping sauce is […]
“It is life, more than death, that has no limits. Love becomes greater and nobler and mightier in calamity.“ — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Thank you for joining our efforts to address the shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in local hospitals and clinics responding to the coronavirus epidemic. This […]
By Võ Thị Kiều Hân, HIPE Coordinator and loving mother of two young children. Vietnamese below. We are currently under self-quarantine in our home–my 63 year old mother, my 17 day old baby Kai, my 30 month old baby Mint, and me who has just given birth. It’s not because […]
Training Update: Yesterday, we held an online video workshop about COVID-19 (aka. coronavirus) at Design Capital Asia – DCA‘s Huế office with members of our HIPE Team. The workshop was led by Hang Truong, Pharm.D, BCPS, from UMass Memorial Medical Center, Department of Pharmacy, who just recently hosted in-person CPR […]
UPDATE: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the conference has been postponed to an unknown later date. We will update as we learn more. We are so proud of member organization Design Capital Asia’s Healthy Initiatives through Peer Education (HIPE) program on their acceptance to the The 10th Asia Pacific Conference on […]