Glocal Ventures

Tet, or the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, is the most important and popular holiday in Vietnam. This year, the first day of the Lunar New Year will fall on February 14. Many people have a full week off work, but festivities may continue for the better part of two weeks with lots of [...]

Putting the “Global” in Glocal (yes, you read that correctly), we welcomed our first team from Hong Kong in January! This was a team of students from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s “Redbird” program, which develops student leadership through community service. Trip organizer Echo Quang shares her memories of their time [...]

We were “temporary residents and foreigners” in Ban Ho but never made to feel like it. The people of Ban Ho are gracious, humble, and their hospitality and resourcefulness has left lasting impressions on us all.

When I look at my relationships in Vietnam I’m blessed to say it’s been much the same.
One relationship is birthed. And then another…and another.
At first it was one and soon there was a whole clump of them.

Sitting and sweating through a meeting with an Orphanage director, I heard the message of Christmas and understood the beauty of the name Immanuel

In January 2008, a team from Canberra, Australia began a partnership with GVI and Manna Worldwide to provide nutrition and better diets to the children at SS3, an orphanage in Hanoi. Earlier this month, they made their first trip to Vietnam and met the children who they had been faithfully supporting.Team leader Linda Perkins reflects [...]

God’s handiwork in the Alps is awesome, but it pales in comparison to His creation of these beautiful people.

GVI’s work with autistic and special needs children was specifically mentioned and thanked by presenters at a Vietnam-Australia pediatric conference.

The feast at Sa’s included this fine item. Yummy! Well…at least Tim enjoyed it!

Currently, we are pausing to reflect on how hard working the people of Vietnam are. It’s not just that they are hard working, they are also fruitful. We ponder and wonder how they are able to be more than the label we would like to assign to them so we can neatly fit them into a category.