{"id":2943,"date":"2018-08-23T07:04:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T07:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lightcharity.com\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2018-08-23T07:04:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T07:04:40","slug":"light-onetay-nguyen-lan-1-cam-nhan-lighter-dam-hung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lightcharity.com\/en\/2018\/08\/23\/light-onetay-nguyen-lan-1-cam-nhan-lighter-dam-hung\/","title":{"rendered":"[Light One@T\u00e2y Nguy\u00ean l\u1ea7n 1] C\u1ea3m nh\u1eadn Lighter \u0110\u00e0m H\u00f9ng"},"content":{"rendered":"

Light Charity Central Highlands<\/strong><\/p>\n

THE WAVES WILL NOT REST, THE SEA WILL NOT BE STILL<\/strong><\/p>\n

Come on, the Central Highlands are all hills and mountains \u2014 where is the sea for waves or stillness? Yet in \u0110\u0103k D\u2019r\u00f4ng, a remote commune of C\u01b0 Jut District, \u0110\u0103k N\u00f4ng Province, little waves appeared, bobbing along and gradually spreading. They began pushing one another forward, then merged into larger waves that traveled farther. Suddenly, I realized I was standing on a boat gliding across a rolling sea \u2014 a vast ocean of love.<\/p>\n

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In \u0110\u0103k D\u2019r\u00f4ng, tiny hearts keep beating, pumping through frail bodies blood \u201cblended\u201d from hospital blood banks. Who knows what percentage of the blood in those frail bodies is still their \u201cown,\u201d when the children need transfusions 2\u20133 times every month, month after month, year after year? Leukemia fills their childhoods with tears.<\/p>\n

By some twist of fate, one day the children with leukemia in \u0110\u0103k D\u2019r\u00f4ng met T\u1ea1 Minh Tu\u1ea5n (TMT), an influential young entrepreneur who inspires thousands of entrepreneurs and young people across Asia. From that moment, TMT breathed new life into the first waves, which swelled into a sea of love surging across all three regions of the country. Light Charity is the lighthouse guiding boats of compassion toward the shores of love.<\/p>\n

After the large, high-profile campaigns in industrial zones and densely populated areas in Ho Chi Minh City, C\u1ea7n Th\u01a1, \u0110\u00e0 N\u1eb5ng, H\u00e0 N\u1ed9i, Ph\u00fa Th\u1ecd, and elsewhere, where thousands of outfits were sold and thousands of disadvantaged workers could buy good clothing, we in the Central Highlands focused on remote villages. These communities have only a few hundred households, whose annual income barely covers living costs and their children's village schooling, with worn-out clothes and patched schoolbags covered in road dust. If measured by funds raised through clothing sales, we Central Highlands Lighters would not dare compare ourselves with anyone. But if measured by the brightest, most sincere and unpretentious smiles, we are confident we achieved that.
\n\u201cI have never been so tired from shopping for clothes. There are so many beautiful clothes for just 2 thousand that choosing is exhausting!\u201d said a woman who had just selected a large bag full of good clothes. She added 1 \u201cbonus\u201d burst of hearty laughter.<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cI thought, how could I do charity when I am poor? Today I learned that anyone can do it. Who doesn't have 2 thousand? I am so happy, my dears,\u201d an Hmong woman, bent over with her grandchild on her back, told us haltingly because she was not fluent in standard Vietnamese.<\/p>\n

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Light Charity and the Gi\u1ea5c m\u01a1 \u0111\u00f4i ch\u00e2n thi\u00ean th\u1ea7n Fund returned to the place that inspired them, as gently and simply as when entrepreneur TMT first met the children with leukemia. This time, however, the wave has grown strong enough to touch many hearts that seemed to have turned to stone. Many local people voluntarily contributed clothing, money, vehicles, and their time to help us carry out this program. They added strength to the wave preparing to sweep across the vast Central Highlands, so that more boats of kindness can take shape and carry love to every hamlet and village.<\/p>\n

We have felt such joy and happiness at the smiles we received over the past days. We want more torches to be lit across the vast mountains and forests of the Central Highlands. We will not stop! What about you? Are you ready to welcome the Light One wave to your own village? Together, let us build a giant lighthouse to illuminate the sea of love amid the great forests of the Central Highlands!<\/p>\n