2025-2026 CPP Beneficiary

Vietnam Assistance For The Handicapped

What is Vietnam Assistance For The Handicapped?
Vietnam Assistance For The Handicapped (VNAH) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting Vietnamese children and youth with disabilities, as well as other disadvantaged groups, by providing opportunities to rebuild their lives through rehabilitation, education, and vocational skills training. The project’s goal is to establish an integrated café/canteen model equipped with essential tools and resources, offering hands-on vocational rehabilitation and livelihood development training for children with disabilities at the Center.

Mission Statement and Vision

  • To provide vocational, occupational rehabilitation services, career orientation, and training for children/youth with disabilities (CWD) at the Center.
  • To improve the capacity of vocational/occupational rehabilitation for employees of the Center in areas of vocational, occupational rehabilitation, livelihood support, training, and guidance for disabled people. To build and operate a Café/Canteen serving as a vocational rehabilitation model at the Center’s premises.
  • To raise awareness among parents, businesses, employers ,and the community about the capacity of children/youths with disabilities.
  • To assist with vocational rehabilitation, vocational training, and life skills for children with disabilities.

Past Beneficiaries

2024-2025 CPP Beneficiary

Vietnam Health Clinic

Vietnam Health Clinic (VHC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to expanding healthcare access and services to under-resourced communities and nurturing leadership and professional development among VHC student member volunteers. Their services can be accessed through their Mobile Health Clinic, in which various healthcare professionals provide healthcare services including, but not limited to, medical, dental, optometric, pharmaceutical, therapeutic, and public health services.

2023-2024 CPP Beneficiary

Rock-Paper-Scissors

Founded in November 2012, the Rock-Paper-Scissors Children’s Fund was established by Sara Stevens Nerone and her two daughters, Sophie and Phoebe Nerone. After teaching art and violin lessons at a local orphanage in Vietnam, the Nerone family came back to the United States and founded Rock-Paper-Scissors Children’s Fund in order to provide ample resources and education to continue teaching the arts to underprivileged children in Vietnam.

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2022-2023

One Body Village

One Body Village is a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1999 to bring hope to sexually abused and exploited children, particularly in Southeast Asia. One Body Village’s name was derived from an African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child”, which means that it takes an entire community of different people interacting with children in order for a child to experience and grow in a safe environment.

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2021-2022

Asian Prisoner Support Committee

Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) has advocated for Asian and Pacific Islander prisoners and formerly incarcerated through numerous of campaigns and programs for almost 20 years. Their campaigns raise awareness to specific cases, fight to protect detained or deported immigrants and refugees, and ultimately bring them home.

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2019-2021

Messengers of Love

Founded in 2004, Messengers of Love is a 501c(3) non-profit organization dedicated to bringing Help, Love and Happiness to the Orphans and Poor of Vietnam. Messengers of Love strives to achieve lasting improvements in the quality of life of deprived children in Vietnam through a process that unites people across cultures and adds meaning and values to their lives by adhering to our missions.

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2018-2019

Children of Vietnam

2017-2018

Pacific Links Foundation

2016-2017

Catalyst Foundation

2015-2016

Kids Without Borders

2014-2015

Foodaid Compassion

2013-2014

One Body Village

2012-2013

Medical, Educational Missions and Outreach (MEMO)​

2011-2012

Children of Vietnam

2010-2011

Blue Dragon's Children's Foundation

2009-2010

Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation

2008-2009

VietHope

2007-2008

Vietnamese Overseas Initiative for Conscience Empowerment (VOICE)

2006-2007

Catalyst Foundation

2005-2006

Vietnamese Alliance to Combat Trafficking (VietACT)