Viet Nam and Cambodia

Wow! It’s been a long and packed 2 ½ weeks in Viet Nam and Cambodia.  Its been approximately a year and a half since I had been back in VN with HAF and I am so proud of the hard work of Josh, Brian, Carol, An and Quynh towards our goal of providing health care improvement.  HAF is now working with the WHO and the VN Ministry of Health in improving non-communicable disease diagnosis, treatment, and management.  We formed a comprehensive project protocol to educate and to treat hypertension and diabetes. It’s been a long process of training the healthcare practitioners at these local clinics, but it’s definitely paid off.  We have practitioners who are eager to learn and excited to help their patients and we have patients who feel better and are happy with their treatments and interested in learning how to live healthier lives.  This has not gone unnoticed—the WHO and Minister of Health are expanding our protocol to the rest of the district!

Cambodia was awesome! It was so wonderful to work with compassionate, smart, driven Andrew and Jenny from Children’s Future International (CFI) in Battambang.  They do amazing work and provide many at risk children with a safe house of room, board, and education.  Their mission is to provide these kids with skills to integrate into society and grow up to be responsible, successful adults in their community. We made this trip to help them with basic medical needs of the kids they take care of. We worked with their local staff and evaluated some of the kids.  It was a short trip to Cambodia, but we look forward to working more with CFI in the future.