Progress Updates

Once a year, a Families In Vietnam board member brings letters and care packages from the children’s sponsors and delivers them personally to the children and their families in Vietnam.  The board member will return with updates on their progress, photos, and letters from your sponsored children.  An email will be sent out letting everyone know when each trip is planned, along with the U.S. address for letters and packages.  The children love to maintain communication with their sponsors – it makes them feel really special!

 

No Language Barriers

Letters from you are translated by our staff for your sponsored child.  Feel free to include a photo of yourselves if you would like to do so – the kids love seeing your photos as much as you love seeing theirs!  If you would like letters from your sponsored child to be addressed to your own children instead of yourself, please email us their names.  The kids in our programs cherish hearing from the person who gives them so much; and it means a lot to them to know how much you care.

 

Care Package Suggestions

If you would like to put together a care package to be delivered to your child, here are some suggestions:

Ideas for gifts:

• underpants
• jeans (slim or with adjustable waist)
• long-sleeved and short-sleeved shirts
• small dark-haired dolls for girls
• Barbies® for girls (name brand)
• small matchbox cars/motorcycles for boys
• markers and paper for home use
• book bags: over-the-shoulder style or backpacks

Hints and Tips:

• clothing purchased in the U.S. is generally of higher quality than that purchased in Vietnam
• child’s size is generally the child’s age (email us if you don’t know your child’s age)
• don’t send things intended as school supplies- paper, pens, etc. are purchased from the school, so that “our” kids are the same as the higher-income kids
• remove excess packaging so that more can fit into suitcases
• send packages with “No Signature Required”
• no gift wrap (the authorities may want to see what is being brought)
• remove price tags
• make everything as compact as possible since it will be carried over in checked luggage
• put everything for your child in a labeled bag (child’s full name, your name)

Your purchases and mailing expenses are tax-deductible at the same rate as cash donations.

If you would like clothing to be purchased for your child in Vietnam, you can send a check to Families In Vietnam.  Please Contact Us for the mailing address.

Thank you!!!  Please see below for a few of our delivery pics!