To build a compassionate house for a poor family in Long An

Mrs. Tu standing at the door of her house

We went to Muong Chai hamlet, Phuoc Lai commune, Can Gio district, Long An province, Vietnam in a raining afternoon. There was a local person who had volunteered to guide us to a poor family at Muong Chai hamlet. We followed her to a small road leads to Truong Van Loa’s thatched house. To reach his house we had to wade through a muddy piece of ground because there is no track leading to the house. It is difficult to go on rainy days because the ground becomes swampy, slippery.

At present, Mr. Truong Van Loa is 37 years old; his wife is Truong Thi Be Tu, 37 years old too. Their house is located nearby a river that its bank is falling down and their house is at the risk of collapse in near future. Because of this, one of their relatives gave them a small ground which is quite far from the river bank, at that they can build their house. However, with their current conditions, they don’t know when they can build a simple house, it is beyond their poor competence.

They have two sons. As they don’t have enough money to pay for school fees, their elder son had to stop his study in order to help his parents to earn money for their living. The younger son is studying at grade seventh. The house they are living in is just a miserable thatched house, only enough capacity to protect them from rain and sunshine. There is nothing valuable in their house, it is almost empty, except two weak beds.

Currently, their work is to cut nipa palms and weave them together. With this job they earn about 50,000VND (50 thousand dongs = 2,5US dollars) per day. Unfortunately, Mr. Loa usually gets sick, so that they must pay for his medicine as well as health care. Therefore, their family had to live in a miserable condition for long. From the date they lived separately from their parents’ family up to now, more than 16 years, they still can’t build their own acceptable house. Knowing this situation, we, Huong Tu Bi Group, are planning to build a compassionate house for them. In our estimation, the house costs about 25.000.000VND (25 million dongs). We invite donations from you all. Hopefully, donators will zealously join with us in this meaningful activity in order to make our compassionate-house building plan becomes true soon.

Thank you for your kindness.

And this is a video clip we recorded:

Huong Tu Bi Group

To join with us in this charitable activity, please contact us via this email id: huongtubigroup@gmail.com