Author: DTruong

25 Apr Better Future

I was a student in Pacific Links Foundation’s Academic Scholarships Program for 4 years. Before I received the scholarship, I faced a lot of difficulties. My family was so poor. My father was the main breadwinner for my family. He had to work very hard to pay for my younger brother and I to continue going to school.

25 Apr Flying Colors

I’ve written periodically about this young woman, one of our trafficking survivors at our shelter in Lao Cai Province. She is a very smart and determined young woman. Her story is full of tragedy, though unfortunately not atypical. A member of an ethnic minority group near the Chinese border, at age 16 she was tricked by her friend and sold to a couple in China who bought her for their son. Soon after she gave birth to a daughter, they sold her to work as forced labor in a coat factory.

25 Apr Coffee Dreams

Dat’s parents separated very early, his mother raised him by herself in a very small house with no door and barely enough space to sleep and cook. The house is too small that his bicycle must be left outside in the alley.

19 Apr Overcoming Odds

Diep has overcome great odds to continue to go to school throughout her life. She is the first in her family to go to college and now the first to graduate.

19 Apr Baking Dreams

One of our vocational scholarship recipients from Tien Giang recently opened up his own bakery in Saigon after gaining work experience and saving up money from the last 2 years.

19 Apr Making Dreams A Reality

I used to think about dropping out of school to help my parents farm because of our economic hardship.

19 Apr A Reunion To Remember

Each trafficking survivor that we meet leaves a mark. More than 20 years of separation, we reunited P. with her family. Her reunion renews the meaning of our work.