There is a more precious thing I learned from my visits and charity work in Vietnam I want to share with you, which is the value of "human contact." I was unable to express my emotions when I held a less fortunate man in my heart and felt the other small body was shaking. He seemed to have been forgotten by society or had been thrown out of family life a long time ago. The desire was to show a little tenderness, and its happiness seems endless.
The attention, sympathy, and love between people-and-people can be expressed through a simple hug, a hand shake, or a kiss on the hair, forehead or the cheek. Although simple and trivial, these seemingly unimportant human to human interactions and gestures are more precious a gift to a lonely elderly or an orphaned children in need of love, for example, than money or other material things. Therefore, it's not enough to give money alone. Give them love thru more human interactions and contacts.
The "Mái Ấm Hoa Hồng" project that I was involved in in SaiGon to help the homeless children was a lifetime experience that I will never forgot. I am so happy to see that Kinh 5 Foundation was able to step-in and partner with Mân Côi seminery to support the most hopeless children in Vietmam. This in turn supports our fight against drug abuse, spread of sexually transmitted diseases, and human trafficking that are happening right here in Sai Gon, Vietman. (fr. Jr. and Wifey)
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