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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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Update: FHV’s second meetup in HCM

07:51 AM

Hi all,

Firstly, we want to express our greatest appreciation towards all those who actively joined our meet-up today.

In this second meet-up of Free Hugs Vietnam, we have:

- Introduced the upcoming activity: “Marketing and Event Competition”

- Introduced and raised some additional funds for this week event: “Mid-autumn festival” (on Saturday, August 3rd, 2009)

- Introduced SEAforCHANGE (i.e., South East Asia for Change) movement: how to raise your voice to change the community for the better and stand a chance to win a free trip to Kuala Lumpur to meet the ten global major change icons and interact with the youth from other South East Asian countries.

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FHV 2nd Members Meetup on Sep 27

10:27 AM

Dear everyone,

It has been nearly 2 months since Free Hugs Vietnam’s first official meeting. I would like to inform all of you about the second meetup we are going to hold this Sunday.

Time:
8:30 – 11:30AM, Sunday, 27th September 2009

Location:
Hoa Huong Duong Bubble Tea 136 Le Lai street, District 1 Ho Chi Minh city

Main contents of the meeting:

  • Introduction of the Southeast Asia for Change (SEAforCHANGE) movement, for which FHV is an official partner in Vietnam. Express your ideas for change and win a trip to Kuala Lumpur to meet globally famous people!

–> Click here for more information!!

  • Introduction of plans for the upcoming Mid-autumn festival event and start raising funds for this event to take place successfully. You may donate directly at the meeting, or to the account of Nguyen Thi Khanh Huyen, Vietcombank – 007.1.00.466259.7 (please send her an email at admin.hcmc@freehugsvietnam.com or contact her at 0942 190 990 after doing so). Also, don’t forget to tell friends and people you know about this donation campaign so that we can provide about 200 gifts to less fortunate people – especially children on the event day.

–> Click here for more information!!

Roles allocation for members – opportunities to practise teamwork, leadership and management skills.

Future plans: training workshops, event competition…

You can visit the meetup’s page on Facebook here.

Again, the meeting will start at 8:30 am. We really look forward to seeing all of you guys there!

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Update on Mid-autumn Festival for FHV in HCMC

11:13 AM

Dear guys,

As you have already been informed about the rough plan for the upcoming Mid-autumn Festival event held by FHV in HCMC scheduled to take place on October 3rd 2009; FHV members will be divided into small groups to go around the city, giving gifts to less fortunate people and children. These are the areas we are going to cover:

1. Thủ Thiêm Ferry
2. Tao Đàn Park
3. Lê Văn Tám Park
4. Along Nguyễn Thượng Hiền street

The final destination for everyone is Ben Thanh market & 23/9 Park; we will continue walking to Notre Dame, 30/4 Park, and finally, Con Rua Lake. We are planning to enlist the support of 30-40 volunteers. There will be 200 gifts for this charity trip, each consisting of milk and a mooncake, and the  total costs amount to 6 million VND (approximately 30,000 VND/ gift). Up to now we have managed to raise 900,000 VND funding and FHV’s management board contributed 700,000 VND, so we need more financial support from all of you. If you guys (or perhaps you can tell your friends and acquaintances about this) want to contribute, you can

* Donate directly at the upcoming FHV’s meetup on September 27th, or
* Donate to the account of Nguyen Thi Khanh Huyen, Vietcombank – 007.1.00.466259.7 (please send her an email at admin@freehugsvietnam.com or contact her at 0942 190 990 after doing so)

We are really looking forward to your support! Let’s coordinate all our efforts to make this event successful, bringing joy and happiness to other people through our meaningful acts!

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HCMC members meetup on Sunday

11:04 AM

Hi everyone,

Can you believe it? We have had almost 50 new members registered in the last few weeks!!!!!!!

We have to thank you myriad times for your enthusiasm and support, and we are terribly sorry for our late response. There is bunch of work to do, and H1h1 is sweeping all over Vietnam. But well, finally, FHV is going to kick off with our first members meetup this Sunday in Ho Chi Minh City.

Here is detailed information about the meetup:

Time: 3pm – 6pm, Sunday, 26th of July, 2009

Location: Hoa Huong Duong (a bubble tea shop), 339 Nguyen Tri Phuong, Ward 5, District 10, HCMC.

Agenda:

- Introduce Free Hugs Vietnam Organization, Management board, FHV’s vision and mission.

- Members’ introductions.

- Introduce “Nutritious meal for orphans” program which will start at Huyen Trang Pagoda, 456/35 Huynh Tan Phat, Khu pho 7, Nha Be, HCMC on Sunday, 9th of August, 2009.

- Start Books & Stationery Donation program.

- Introduce our partnership program with HOW (Helping Orphanage Worldwide) on September

You can confirm your attendance either by setting your RSVP as “Attending” to our event on Facebook (click here), leaving a comment here or contact:

Quang Luu Ngoc

Vice President – Head Representative of FHV in HCMC

0938107017

quang.luu@freehugsvietnam.com

Notes:

(1) This meetup will be held in English; we are sure that our volunteers are all comfortable with using it. If not, it’s a great chance to practice!

(2) Feel free to bring along your friends who you think might be interested in volunteering and meeting new friends.

(3) And please bring along something that will help us understand you better. I myself am coming with my favorite Michael Jackson’s hat!

Thank you very much, and hope to see you on Sunday!

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