Thanks so much for choosing to suppport my 60th Birthday Fund in favour of the The Kianh Foundation.

The Kianh Foundation is a UK charity providing a range of specialist services to disabled and disadvantaged children in Vietnam. For the past 7 years, it has directly supported an orphanage in Hoi An and is now planning for a day centre providing similar services in the area most heavily affected by the war.  I have established that all the funds raised by the Foundation here in the UK are transferred to its activities in Vietnam.  Click on the link (below left) to see the breadth of its work.

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