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VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT=18></TD> <TD></TD> <TD></TD> <TD COLSPAN=9></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT=49></TD> <TD></TD> <TD COLSPAN=11></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=21 HEIGHT=33></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=8 HEIGHT=54></TD> <TD COLSPAN=6 ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=233><IMG ID="Picture781" HEIGHT=54 WIDTH=233 SRC="../assets/images/tuong_son__thach_ha.gif" BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD COLSPAN=7></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 WIDTH=708 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=345 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=9 HEIGHT=13><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=9 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=336><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=336 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=336 CLASS="TextObject"> <P STYLE="text-align: justify;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Sans-serif, sans-serif;"><B><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,0,153);">Spring</SPAN></B><BR>Tu Thi Nguyen is sixteen years old. She is a cute, polite and lively girl and has a bright smile. Tu accompanied us to visit poor families in An Binh village. The village has a high number of dead people due to cancer caused by contaminated drinking water. She knew almost every small road in the neighborhood and knew very well conditions of each family. <BR><BR>After the trip around the neighborhood, Tu invited us into her house to take a rest. The house was empty and tattered without door. It did not need a door because there was nothing inside except an old bed and an old table, and few bananas lied under a broken plastic cover.&nbsp; Looking at the altar, I saw a picture of a young man, Tu s father.&nbsp; Her father passed away in an accident at work.&nbsp; Her mom left home to South Vietnam to look for work. She worked as a helper for a small restaurant.&nbsp; I asked Tu  Why your mom left you at home alone? The house is not safe. What happen if bad people get in the house at night? <BR><BR>Tu shyly told after her father died, her mom alone took care of her. Their daily life depended upon the small rice-field, banana garden and few beds of vegetable. Her village situates in a lowland area; every year they suffer by few diluvia rains. For three consecutive years, village people had poor crops because floods dampened seed-rice. Her family endured the same situation; her mom must borrow seed-rice and fertilizer from the village corporative office. What they made were only enough for two of them to live day by day. Her mother did not have money to pay back to the corporative office.&nbsp; When her family lost the fourth harvest, the corporative agency would not let them borrow anymore. Her mom had to go to South Vietnam to look for work to pay back the debt. In the South, her mom made $600,000 (vnd) each month (about $35us). She ate free at the restaurant, and saved the food expense in return, she must work from 7am to 12am. Her mom sent $400,000 (vnd) to pay back the debt and sent her daughter $200,000 (vnd) to pay tuition fees. With $200,000 (vnd) each month, it was too little to cover food and tuition fees, her mom advised  We have bananas in our garden. When you need money, you cut them down and sell them at the market. You cut vegetables to feed yourself. When you run out of money and rice, you go to your grandmother, uncles and aunts to ask for foods. </SPAN></P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=363 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=2 HEIGHT=20><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=2 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=1><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=8><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=8 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=8><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=8 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=2><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=2 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=269><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=269 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=1><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT=270></TD> <TD COLSPAN=6 ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=360><IMG ID="Picture667" HEIGHT=270 WIDTH=360 SRC="../assets/images/Hatinh21_web_lon.jpg" BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=8 HEIGHT=16></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=6 HEIGHT=1></TD> <TD COLSPAN=2 ROWSPAN=4 ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=270><IMG ID="Picture656" HEIGHT=360 WIDTH=270 SRC="../assets/images/Hatinh5_web.jpg" BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD HEIGHT=70></TD> <TD COLSPAN=4 ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=89><IMG ID="Picture807" HEIGHT=70 WIDTH=89 SRC="../assets/images/autogen/a_human_love.gif" BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=6 HEIGHT=184></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT=105></TD> <TD ROWSPAN=3 ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=72><IMG ID="Picture809" HEIGHT=373 WIDTH=72 SRC="../assets/images/flood_donation___sharing_in_difficult_time.gif" BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD COLSPAN=2></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT=4></TD> <TD COLSPAN=4></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT=264></TD> <TD COLSPAN=2></TD> <TD COLSPAN=2 ROWSPAN=2 ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=270><IMG ID="Picture663" HEIGHT=360 WIDTH=270 SRC="../assets/images/Hatinh16_web.jpg" BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=6 HEIGHT=96></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=8 HEIGHT=5></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD HEIGHT=270></TD> <TD COLSPAN=6 ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=360><IMG ID="Picture660" HEIGHT=270 WIDTH=360 SRC="../assets/images/Hatinh13_web.jpg" BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 WIDTH=711 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=208 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=7 HEIGHT=33><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=7 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=54><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=54 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD COLSPAN=2 WIDTH=201 CLASS="TextObject"> <P STYLE="text-align: justify;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Sans-serif, sans-serif;">When we heard Tu s story, we knew similar circumstances also happening to many Vietnamese farmers.&nbsp; If we had time to visit them all, we would hear stories and different reasons that led families to destitute. Families in Central Vietnam, they have confronted with natural disaster and floods every year. It was the reason I thought of carry out a program called  Fertilizer and Seed-rice to give farmer families who don t have seed-rice to sow for the coming season. <BR>&nbsp;<BR>While we distributed food to the hungry people, we also sought advices from local people to come up with the program  Fertilizer and Seed-rice .&nbsp; The program was carried out differently at each village, because each village required the supplies at a different time and different types of fertilizer, seed-rice, and manure.&nbsp; All advices were eagerly provided by the experienced farmers at each village.&nbsp; One kilogram fertilizer cost about $6,000 - $8,500vnd (about 5 cents US) and each family would need about 20 kg. One kilogram seed-rice cost about $35,000vnd (about 22 cents US) and each family would need at least 5kg. <BR></SPAN>&nbsp;</P> </TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT=7></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD HEIGHT=49></TD> <TD ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=147><IMG ID="Picture804" HEIGHT=49 WIDTH=147 SRC="../assets/images/compassion.gif" BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=503 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=18 HEIGHT=8><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=18 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=2><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=2 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=1><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=4><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=4 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=36><IMG 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SRC="../assets/images/Hatinh23_web.jpg" BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD></TD> <TD></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT=1></TD> <TD COLSPAN=17></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=353 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=6 HEIGHT=48><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=6 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD HEIGHT=50></TD> <TD ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=347><IMG ID="Picture782" HEIGHT=50 WIDTH=347 SRC="../assets/images/thach_van_thach_hoi_thach_ha.gif" BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 WIDTH=711 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=438 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=7 HEIGHT=19><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=7 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=431><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=431 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=431 CLASS="TextObject"> <P STYLE="text-align: justify;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Sans-serif, sans-serif;">Besides fertilizer and seed-rice, their need of sweaters and blankets were also essential.&nbsp; Last year flood season, it was the first time we distributed gifts to poor people at Ha Tinh province. The volunteers came to the village to find out their needs. Senior people wished they could have a sweater. This time the relief group came to the village, they came with full cars of bags of rice, blankets and sweaters. The senior people ran to the cars and begged for sweaters and blankets. The begged  please give me a sweater. When I am hungry, I can glean dropping seed-rice on the field but it s cold, I can do nothing.&nbsp; I have wished to own a sweater for a long time, but no money to buy. It is very cold here! In parallel with the urgent relief program, we arranged to distribute fertilizers, sweaters and blankets.<BR><BR>When I talked to monk Chi Mau at Tu Hieu temple about the relief program; we planned to help farmers gotten over their hunger at the year end. The monk advised  farming is a decent occupation. When we eat rice, we must remember farmers who work hard to make rice. The advice reminded me to value the sweet rice that we eat daily in rich countries where we live; they import rice from the poor countries where farmers suffer from starvation.&nbsp; We hope our today relief work is to express our grateful to all farmers.<BR></SPAN>&nbsp;</P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=273 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=31 HEIGHT=46><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=31 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=1><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=1><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=238><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=238 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=1><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=1><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD HEIGHT=180></TD> <TD COLSPAN=3 ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=240><IMG ID="Picture673" HEIGHT=180 WIDTH=240 SRC="../assets/images/Thach_Van_1_web.jpg" BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD COLSPAN=2></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=6 HEIGHT=9></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT=180></TD> <TD COLSPAN=3 ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=240><IMG ID="Picture674" HEIGHT=180 WIDTH=240 SRC="../assets/images/Thach_Van_2_web.jpg" BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=6 HEIGHT=9></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT=180></TD> <TD COLSPAN=3 ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=240><IMG ID="Picture676" HEIGHT=180 WIDTH=240 SRC="../assets/images/Thach_Hoi_1_web.jpg" BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 WIDTH=711 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=454 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=7 HEIGHT=23><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=7 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=3><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=3 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=1><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=343><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=343 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=17><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=17 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH=83><IMG SRC="../assets/images/autogen/clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=83 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT=270></TD> <TD COLSPAN=2 ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=360><IMG ID="Picture682" HEIGHT=270 WIDTH=360 SRC="../assets/images/Thach_Hoi_8_web_lon.jpg" BORDER=0 ALT=""></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=6 HEIGHT=16></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=2></TD> <TD COLSPAN=4 WIDTH=444 CLASS="TextObject"> <P STYLE="text-align: justify;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Sans-serif, sans-ser