American NGO offers homes and health care to poor
The American Catalyst Foundation NGO has begun a 10- day Aid Expedition 2008 to two southern provinces and Ho Chi Minh City.
The Foundation will also hand over 250 bicycles and 300 other gifts, organise medical check-ups for 2.5000 orphaned children, and provide scholarships and loans for poor people.
A two-day camp in Long Hai beach, Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, will be organised for 300 poor and orphaned children at the end of the trip.
In 2007 the Catalyst Foundation built a primary school and a library in Rach Gia, Kien Giang, for 100 children living on waste ground.
The foundation was set up in 1999 to help orphaned, abandoned, homeless and sexually-abused children in
Dozens of Vietnamese children adopted by foreigners have returned to the country to take part in the expedition.
VNA
