Teach Me To Fish Program

The 12th HumaniTour

October 21, 2010

Day 2 in Hanoi: joining our team for our visit to the Thanh Xuan Peace Village this morning are four young women in the Teach Me To Fish (TM2F) Program. All of these four orphans grew up in the Hoa Phuong Orphanage in Hai Phong. They moved out of the orphanage at the age of 18, and came to Hanoi for vocational training. The TM2F program supported them during the first two years outside of the orphanage. Now they all live independently, and all have decent jobs. One of the four got married and is expecting a child next month.

Hanoi by night ...

October 21, 2010

Hanoi, Viet Nam

October 20, 2010
We have just missed the 1,000th birthday celebration of Hanoi City. Here are some images of Hanoi during the day.

Seattle to Hanoi

October 18, 2010

Our team left Seattle at 2am on October 19, 2010 - first stop: Taipei and a short layover. We left Taipei just in time to avoid 'Supper Typhoon Megi' waiting in the South China Sea after this deadly weather system strucked Manila. October is still 'monsoon' season in Southeast Asia.

Part of our team from Seattle at Seatac International Airport

23 hours later, we arrived in Hanoi ...

... with our luggage (almost 2,000 lbs., more than half are donated goods)

Kids Without Borders in-country representative Thao (holding pink handbag) welcomes us to Hanoi. Thao grew up in the Hoa Phuong Orphanage and she was one of the first young adult in the KWB Teach Me To Fish program.

The 12th HumaniTour Viet Nam

October 17, 2010

The HumaniTour team is packed and ready to travel. The team from Seattle will depart at 2am October 18, 2010, first stop is Taipei (Taiwan), and after a short layover we will continue on to Hanoi. We will leave behind the beautiful fall weather at home, with daytime temperature in the 60s and nightime in the 30s.