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Vietnam Humanitarian Volunteer Tours

Experience Vietnam through human warmth, generosity and unity by working and learning alongside renowned Vietnamese Humanitarian and Peacemaker Le Ly Hayslip subject of Oliver Stone's movie Heaven and Earth working to build libraries in rural central Vietnam- Global Village Foundation .Experience first hand from Le Ly the beauty, authenticity and simplicity of life in a Vietnamese village – assist with the foundation’s projects committed to bringing books to rural Vietnam. In addition to volunteering, you will have a deep cultural experience (cooking, language classes, as well an an in-depth look at history, meditation, and Buddhism).

Our Programs and Projects:

Volunteer One Day
If you are in the Danang/Hoi An area and would like to volunteer we will host you in exchange for a full day of volunteer work with our Portable Mobile Library Project in schools. Volunteers will visit village schools and spend the day reading, teaching, and working with the children. This gives the volunteers a first-hand look at Vietnamense school life and provides a valuable cross-cultural experience.

Global Village Foundation asks for a $150 donation from each participant which goes directly towards the Portable Mobile Library Project. Should you sponsor one or more portable library boxes with books ($500.00 each); we will be able to hand-deliver the boxes (with your name inscribed) to the remote and poor school where it will be cherished by the children who are hungry for books.

Volunteer One Week:
During this week long experience you will work side-by-side with Le Ly Hayslip on the humanitarian projects of the Global Village Foundation. Opportunities include building houses, schools, and community centers; setting up portable libraries; teaching English in schools or assisting in the handicraft training center. Volunteers will be housed in comfortable lodgings in ancient and charming Hoi An for five nights and will then travel to Hue for a private tour over the weekend. Le Ly will introduce to you a part of her family and village. Have lunch in Le Ly’s home village with her family.

The price for this one week opportunity is $2500. Contact us for details.

Price includes: accommodation for the duration of the program, all meals and transportation costs, $500 of the program fee goes toward a portable library box with your name on it. You can personally deliver your book box to a rural school in Vietnam. Airfare to and from Danang and travel visa not included. Individual travelers are welcome for the first two programs. Groups of 2-20 are welcome for the third program. Session dates are flexible. Your journey begins here…

Volunteer Two Weeks:
This is a more in depth opportunity to work alongside Le Ly Hayslip on many of her projects to gain a broader understanding of Vietnam. Two weeks provides enough time to experience the authentic and simple way of life in a Vietnamese village through the unique style of cooking and farming, as well as language classes. Volunteers will also receive a broad knowledge of Vietnamese history, meditation, ancestral remembrance and study the basics of ancestors worship and Buddhism from the East. Volunteers will hear firsthand what village life was like during wartime in Vietnam, and how Le Ly and her family’s immense courage helped them survive the war. She reveals how she uses her dismal past to fuel her passion to write books and how she has helped rebuild her war-torn country through peace efforts and reconciliation.

Engage in a one or two day workshop to educate local teachers about the Portable Mobile Library Project. Other projects include: building houses, schools, and community centers, setting up portable libraries, teaching English in schools, assisting in the handicraft training and computer centers, and visiting Le Ly’s home village for meals and chat. The cost for this two week opportunity is $3500. Contact us for details.

Price includes: accommodation for the duration of the program, all meals and transportation costs, $500 of the program fee goes toward a portable library box with your name on it. You can personally deliver your book box to a rural school in Vietnam. Airfare to and from Danang and travel visa not included. Individual travelers are welcome for the first two programs. Groups of 2-20 are welcome for the third program. Session dates are flexible. Your journey begins here…

About the Founder:

Global Village Foundation was established in 1999 by Le Ly [ley-lee] Hayslip. Miss Hayslip has proven herself to be a woman of many interests and has multiple talents as a humanitarian, philanthropist and peacemaker. She has devoted herself to the children of Asia while building a bridge of peace between the United States and Vietnam over the last 20 years. Le Ly Hayslip is a Vietnamese-American who grew up in a poor village near Danang, Vietnam during the war. She is the author of two autobiographical bestsellers; When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Child of War, Woman of Peace, which were adapted for the film Heaven and Earth by Academy Award-winning director, Oliver Stone.

Le Ly survived the horrors and hardship of war in Vietnam, overcoming all odds and moving to the US in 1970. In 1986, Le Ly returned to Vietnam and was stunned by the devastation, poverty and diseases left by the US / Vietnam War. Seeing an opportunity to make a difference, she founded the East Meets West Foundation and became a bridge builder by bringing American groups back to Vietnam to help restore her motherland and open the dialogue between the two nations.

Since that time, the positive progress towards healing the wounds of war has been remarkable. Having accomplished her initial mission with East Meets West, Le Ly founded the Global Village Foundation in 1999 to empower others to stand up and make a difference by participating in humanitarian projects while vacationing abroad and overseas. Le Ly’s involvement demonstrates in a powerful way how volunteers too can become peacemakers throughout the world.

Humanitarian Volunteer Tour Mission:

Despite increasing world trade and globalization, tens of millions of children and villagers still live without adequate healthcare, clean water, food or education. We cannot predict what will happen to us tomorrow, but today we must have love and compassion to help these children in need. Action is necessary to alleviate the poverty that still affects many in our world. Since Le Ly Hayslip founded both of her foundations, her commitment towards peace, education and reconciliation through volunteer networks has inspired so many. Child by child, school by school, village by village, one step at a time, she inspires others to aid those that suffer from poverty and the injustice of war so that they become educated and self-sufficient.

Le Ly believes that individual courage tied to collective action is the key to opening up human hearts to happiness and lifetime fulfillment. Whether you are working locally at home or internationally in remote villages, you can become bridge builders towards peace.

Please join us by giving yourself and others the gift of volunteerism. Make a difference by contributing to the Global Village Foundation and help us to build a bridge of peace across the ocean of suffering across nations.

The Global Village Foundation is a public, non-profit and non religion and tax-exempt organization under Section 501 (c) (3) of the United States tax code. Thank you for your fully tax deductible donation. Our non – profit tax ID number: 33-0861136