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Kính gửi anh chị Exryu Bắc Cali và gia đình Exryu toàn cầu Kính mời các anh chị Bắc Cali dành chút thì giờ đến tham dự buổi hoà nhac của hai cháu Exryu Nisei Phương Trức - Phương Chi sẽ được tổ chức vào Chủ Nhật tuần sau Feb 10th theo như chương trìn dưới. Đây là buổi hoà nhac cuối cùng sau 10 năm liên tuc nhằm giúp đỡ trẻ em nghèo tại Viet Nam. Thư khích lệ của các anh chi ở xa có thể gởi về : worldinterchange@gmail.com Xem thêm chi tiết của cháu Phương Chi ở địa chỉ dưới đây : http://www.vnyouthprojects.net/ Anh em Exryu Cuoi Tuan
Hello everyone,
How are
you? I hope you had a brilliant new year's celebration to
start 2008 in the right fashion. We certainly did, enjoying
reruns of the Harry Potter movies and bottles of Martinelli's
till midnight !
We are very
happy to announce our 9th and LAST
Annual Children's Benefit Concert, which will be on
Sunday,
February 10, 2008, at 2:00 pm at the Amador Theater in
Pleasanton.
This year the focus of our concert will again be the street
children's shelter in Can Tho, Vietnam, but we will also use
the proceeds of the concert to expand our new college
scholarship program in the Mekong Delta. These are both
projects we visited last summer on a three-week tour of
southern Vietnam.
Last summer
we had the opportunity to see firsthand the amazing work of
the teachers at the street children shelter we have regularly
sponsored in Can Tho in the past eight years. We saw some of
the kids I had met three years ago, and we met many of the
approximately 100 new kids from the ages of 3 to 20 who had
joined the shelter since the last time I had visited. It was
a heartwarming experience and a heartbreaking one when we left
after only two short days of playing, laughing, and raucous
picture-taking.
We were similarly warmly received when we visited several
colleges in the Mekong Delta area and participated in
discussions with college students who were past scholarship
recipients. We exchanged information about our respective
cultures, families, dreams, and general daily lives and
activities. It was the first time I made friends and actually
felt at home in my mother country. In our three
bustling and busy weeks in the country, I was wonderfully
overwhelmed and inspired by my experiences.
This year,
for our last event in the concert format, we have a fantastic
program with classical and traditional Vietnamese performances
by pianist Ellen Wassermann, clarinetist Bill
Wohlmacher, violinist Phillip Santos, and
world-renowned instrumentalist Van-Anh Vo. We are so
excited about our program, and of course we will also be
performing on the piano. It'll be your
LAST CHANCE to catch these wonderful musicians in our
concerts!
2008 will
mark the tenth anniversary of our fundraising.
After this concert, we plan to expand their projects into a
new phase. Although 2008 is the last opportunity to attend
the annual Children's Benefit Concert, you can expect to
participate and contribute during campaigns of different
formats in the
coming
years. We'll keep you updated about these upcoming events.
Thank you
for all of your support in the past year, and we hope that you
will stay active in our circle of support. We look forward to
seeing you at the concert!
Below is a
flier about the event. We would appreciate it very much if
you could pass this e-mail on to friends, colleagues, and
family.
Please email
us if you would like to purchase tickets in advance by mail.
Please write checks to Chi Nguyen for ticket purchases or to
VNHELP for donations.
Fondly,
Chi Nguyen --
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