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Update: FHV T-shirts, designers needed, and follow-up of Event Plan Competition

04:21 AM

Hi guys!
It’s been 2 weeks since FHV’s blog was updated with the “Free Hugs Vietnam Event plan competition 2009″.  We are now coming back with some important updates for everyone!

  1. Fakoon – an electronic selling service providing individuality with lively patterns designed by a community of professional designers and customers themselves and whose  products ranging from T-shirts, cups, cushions, and others design-to-measure; now will sponsor FHV’s T-shirts. More information on Fakoon’s products and services can be obtained here http://fakoon.com
    Since patterns have not been finalized yet, we are now looking for designers who will be responsible for designing the T-shirt.
    There are also some draft versions of our T-shirt uploaded on Facebook, please have a look to vote for the one you like and make other suggestions.
    Not only that, we would like to find designers for FHV’s website as well. Talents are much needed; if you feel capable for this role please contact admin@freehugsvietnam.com right away ^_^
  2. In addition to the mentors for FHV Event plan competition we have mentioned before, there are 2 news guy we want to introduce to all of you:
    • Huy Zing: He has worked for Telecom and Silion Valley start-ups. In Vietnam he has taught programming at RMIT Vietnam, helped organize Barcamp Saigon 2008, and launched the innovative educational project MultiUni. Trivia: Huy speaks five human languages and dozens of computer ones, is a graduate of Caltech, and was once the top user on Orkut.
    • Pham Le Nguyen: born in 1985, this talented girl has working experience with Vietnam Communications Corporation & Channel 14 and received scholarships from Institute of Potential Leaders (IPL) as one of the best 36 potential leaders all over Vietnam and from Foreign Trade University Vietnam in 2004. In addition, she won many outstanding awards, some of which include Creative Prize in the competition “Innovative plan for the development of Ha Noi” held by the Ha Noi Young Business Associatio and the Communist Youth Union, and Certificate of the first deputy minister of Foreign Affairs for valuable voluntary service during the meeting of APEC Vietnam 2006.
  3. FHV Plan Competition: Hopefully by now most of you have finished forming teams of 3-5 people and been preparing well for your event and marketing plans. Remember that the deadline for submitting the plans to quang.luu@freehugsvietnam.com is 12pm, Sunday November 15, 2009.
    Right now, please open this form and start filling in all the required details of your team as instructed. When the leader of each team submits the plans, don’t forget to include your team’s details as well.
    Many teams have contacted us to obtain supportive information to prepare their plans better. It’s good to see everyone trying hard for this competition, having fun, learning essential soft skills, meeting experienced business guys, and winning certificates & valuable rewards. Feel free to contact us should you need!

Free Hugs Vietnam Event Plan Competition 2009

07:28 AM

Dear everyone,

As we informed you guys in the second meeting, Free Hugs Vietnam now launches an event plan competition called “Free Hugs Vietnam Event plan competition 2009″ for all members as well as their non-member friends to take part in.

Please click on the link

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mz2qgz0izwm

and then click on “Click here to start download” to download the compressed file “Toolkit”, read the procedures & related information and guide available in both English and Vietnamese.

Here is information about the competition:

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Full Moon Festival 2009

08:59 AM
The whole gang

Welcome to FHV!

A very good point this year is the weather. In Viet Nam it’s irritatingly likely to rain when we are going around having fun with lanterns, but today is different. It did rain a little, but the weather soon cleared up, which means none of us got wet, even though we have been going nonstop. And there are good reasons why we kept on going even as rains seemed to be coming…

It took quite sometime to gather around at Youth Cultural Center, because there were so many of us. Apart from FHV members there were also volunteers from HOW, so it was a real crowd. From 5pm, our volunteers started to stick FHV logo onto their shirts and get to know each other (by the way, FHV T-shirts are coming real soon). Dozens of carton boxes were prepared, ready to carry presents to unlucky children near the center of Ho Chi Minh city. Around 100 people were divided into two groups, starting from Youth Cultural Center to various spots such as the Municipal Theater, Turtle Lake, Notre Dame Cathedral, Bến Thành Market. Throughout the trip, we pay special attention to children that we were passing by…

Group 1 headed from Youth Cultural Center towards Notre Dame Cathedral. Group 2 headed from Youth Cultural Center towards Turtle Lake. We each learnt different lessons on the way…

Here are some pictures from our photographers:

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Detailed plan for Mid-Autumn Festival

06:36 PM

Dear everyone,

The Mid-autumn Festival charity trip by Free Hugs Vietnam will take place this Saturday, October 3, 2009. I would like to give you a brief plan for the event:

We will gather at the Cultural Center for the Youth, Number 4 Pham Ngoc Thach street, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1 at 5:00 P.M (all vehicles will be parked here)

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