The Vietnamese love festivals and celebrations, including Christmas. For the Christian population it is a time to celebrate the birth of Christ, for others it is a time to light up their shops and homes and give gifts.
For Reaching Out, the social enterprise where we volunteer, it is a busy season as tourists and locals alike seek out the beautiful, unique and authentic crafts made by disabled artisans.
In these troubled economic times, tourist traffic and thus sales have diminished for Reaching Out and full employment of their staff is now threatened. However Binh and Quyen plan to open a Tea House soon, to diversify and attract more customers. The Tea house will be staffed by speech and hearing impaired servers, absorbed from the gift shop. What a lovely thought...to enjoy a cup of organic Vietnamese tea in a quiet and gracious atmosphere.
Some of our Journeys of the Heart funds will go to supporting the training for these servers.
If you would like to sponsor training please let us know at elainehead43@gmail.com.
REACH OUT to REACHING OUT!
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