Hmong Crippled Children Charity
"Cuộc sống thêm phần giá trị khi chúng ta làm công việc thiện nguyện." - "We enhance the quality of our lives when we practice philanthropy." - “Peb txhawb txoj kev zoo thiab mauj nqis hauv peb lub neej los ntawm kev xyaum txhawb pab lwm tus.” - Dr. Van Toan Ngo
Hmong Crippled Children Charity’s purpose is to promote education, health, welfare, charity, and scientific research. HCCC works to bring medical and biotechnology education to people in developing countries and prepares them for global competitiveness. It delivers medical services to those less fortunate by providing training and funding to local doctors. In developing countries as well as in the United States, it assists the needy, the sick, and the homeless.
On May 2017 I went on a medical expedition in Hanoi, Vietnam. While there, I was inspired by Dr. Van Toan Ngo, the head surgeon of Viet Duc Hospital. He also happened to be the President of Sala Club, a charitable organization for minority children with congenital defects in the mountainous regions of Vietnam. Coming back to the U.S., I established Hmong Crippled Children Charity.
On this medical expedition, I met a little boy who was eight years old, with missing legs. I spoke to him about his future. When I asked him what he wanted to do with his life, he said, “I want to go to school like all the other children.” The surgeons at Sala Club need money to pay for artificial limbs for this boy. Information about the club can be found here at http://salaclub.vn.
Others like him need medical help. Dr. Ngo told me that children who receive correction for their club foot malformation will be able to walk, run, and learn to play sport. The orthopedic surgeons, whose specialties are in congenital defect correction, at Viet Duc Hospital donate their time and skills two to three times per year for a three-day work session at various hospitals and clinics in isolated villages inhabited by the minorities.
We need money for transportation, meals, post-surgery hospital stay, and accommodations for the children and their parents, who need to accompany them on the arduous trip from their village home in the mountains to the various regional hospitals. Likewise, the surgeons and training residents need help with transportation and accommodations during their working trip. Residents in training are still students, and are unpaid.
HCCC was incorporated on June 30, 2017. Our IRS 501(c)3 status was approved in December 2018.
Donations will be used 100% for the crippled children. I, personally, will pay all administrative costs, and volunteer my time.
The average cost for an operation for one child is $249. You can change a child's life forever.
