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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 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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