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Ban Mu – Boarding Elementary School

153% Funded

$3,820 Pledged

$2,500 Goal

19 Backers

This campaign
successfully reached its
funding goal and ended
3 years ago

School Statistics

Number of Students: 647 | 74% Low Income | 100% Minority

Current Conditions & Needs from School

School is located in a very poor commune, 85% of population living under poverty line, 100% of population is Mong and Thai group. School has 74% students whose are low-income family, parents can’t afford to buy school supplies.
417 low-income students at semi-boarding school because their villages are located some five (5) kilometres and a series of very steep and risky landslide area to commute to school. Students are allowed to stay overnight during the school week. In the winter season is in Oct – April, students feel uncomfortable to taking cold shower and students said to us that they do not have hot shower for good hygiene, with the neglect of the body’s cleanness.
The school wanted us provide school supplies that can remain students from low-income families in school.

ASK [What BeCause will support]

Distribute knowledge books and install water solar system.

About The Champion

Ha V. Nguyen was born and raised in Hanoi, Vietnam. At the age of 19, Ha moved to Singapore and then to the United States to pursue her educational goals; she now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family for the last 13 years.

As a child living close to her grandparents, Ha witnessed her grandmother’s work and the public health changes in Vietnam after the war. Ha became passionate about helping others, focusing on underprivileged children without access to education and adequate health care. At a young age, she was an active volunteer for the Red Cross, Operation Smile, and other organizations that assisted international doctors and nurses, whose primary mission was to provide care and aid to children in Vietnam.

Since moving to the US, Ha has continued her dedication to helping the community. Besides her busy work schedule, she has helped immigrants adapt to their new lives in the US, and is a longtime volunteer in teaching the Vietnamese language and culture to Vietnamese American children, as a means to help them to connect to their home country.

In 2019, Ha decided to compete for the Miss and Mrs. Vietnam USA competition because she saw the potential to achieve her long-term dream, and contribute her talent to support others.Ha was crowned, and with this fantastic platform, she has been able to connect with people who share the same passion of empowering Vietnamese American women, preserving of the language and culture, and giving back more to the community.

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”