By Patrick J O'Brien | Board Member/Director
Dear Friends,
We hope your summer is going well and this update finds you in good health. We are getting close to the last week of our trip in Vietnam and we couldn’t be more happy with the work that you have helped us accomplish and only wish we had more time to stay and do more.
So far we have had two bike giving ceremonies in Cam Duc and Cam An villages, with one more to go in the coming week. By the end of our trip we will have given 60 bikes to girls in the Cam Lam district and by the end of this year we hope to donate 150 more bikes to girls in need in Viet Nam.
It is hard to describe life in Cam Lam to anyone who has never been here. It is hard to explain to someone what a family living on only $1 a day looks like, or what it’s like to visit a young girl’s home who has lost both her parents and lives with relatives in a tiny, one-room cement house with no furniture, and yet still maintains a constant smile and a thankfulness for a gift that we so often take for granted. We also can’t describe fully what it feels like to watch as a group of girls jump on their new bikes and ride away, as we look on and hope that they may be able to continue their education because now they have a way to make the trek that the day before seemed too far for a pair of feet alone to conquer. We also can’t explain, or reconcile even with ourselves what it’s like knowing that for whatever small measure of good we are trying to produce here, it is never enough, and the importance of supporting girls’ education worldwide is paramount for the success of future generations.
But one thing we can try to do as best we can is to say thank you. We can say that with your thoughtfulness and generosity that you are making a difference in these girl’s lives and we are seeing it first hand. We can tell you that we are forever grateful that you have chosen to support these beautiful girls. We have made sure that every $55 has gone directly to buying a bike.
We hope you will continue to have good health, good luck, and good success in the months and years to come.
Thank you again,
The Rock-Paper-Scissors Children’s Fund Team
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