Help children at Vinh Son Orphanage be healthy, happy and successful.
Provide orphaned children access to education, food, clothing and shelter right where they are so they can help make life better for themselves and others over time.
Teach orphans life and job skills and instill in them a winning spirit. With those skills they can escape the cycle of poverty and help make a difference for future generations.
Orphans are among the most vulnerable people on planet Earth. We help create a safe environment in which children can thrive and reach their optimal potential.
Raise resources that provide a happier and fulfilling quality of life for children. Do this by accepting donations and creating resource-generating campaigns.
By helping distribute an innovative product like The Shoe That Grows, you will make daily life easier for children living in poverty.
For the price of a small pizza you can feed one child at the Vinh Son Orphanage for an entire month.
Imagine how many children we can help together for $12 a month!
$1.00 buys eight lbs. of fresh, healthy vegetables
$1.00 buys flour that makes 20 loaves of bread
$1.00 buys four lbs. of energy giving fresh fruit
$1.00 buys four lbs. of rice, which creates 20 meals
$5.00 buys one gallon of milk
In addition to meeting the basic needs for food, shelter and clothing of the children at the Orphanage, it is our desire to do everything we can to create a long term future for them by sending as many of the 850 children to college. And you know the best part?
One full year of college costs only $1,000!
That’s right, for a little over $80 per month you can help the children at the Vinh Son Orphanage attain long term success.
Everyone on the team is an experienced professional or business owner and volunteers their time toward our mission.
President
After high school Young followed his innate calling and enlisted in the Navy, where he served as a FMF Hospital Corpsman. Serving in the military enabled him to travel the globe.
Of the dozens of countries he visited, it’s no surprise that he felt most at home in rural pockets of Southeast Asia which brought comforting reminders of his original homeland. However, to this day, he keeps with him the graphic and devastating images of what he witnessed while on the job in war-torn parts of the world. Above all, his tenure with the Navy instilled in him a deep gratitude for the opportunities borne out of his life in the U.S., as well as an undeniable abundance of compassion for children in need.
Now, years since his first touch-point in the U.S., some of Young’s childhood friends have become his fellow board members on a mission to make the world a better place for orphans.
Vice President
Tish was first introduced to the nonprofit world as a Mortgage Banker lending to low and moderate income households. While doing home loans for these areas, she learned about socioeconomic qualities of the area, which eventually led her to joining the board of a local Non Profit that served to provide backpacks and holiday gifts to low income families. As a board member and staff (Adopt A Family Norcal), Tish learned about the challenges and joys of nonprofit leadership from many different points of view.
Tish reunited with high school friends and joined the board Of Täbū Ohana Orphanage. She is privileged to work alongside its smart and dedicated team to advance the education and quality of life for orphanages around the world.
She also continues to work with local schools in El Dorado County. She looks forward to growing in the Non Profit world and making a difference in the lives of children everywhere.
Treasurer
Believing that no task is too big and no challenge is insurmountable, Nick thrives in finding solutions big, small, and especially creative. Perhaps this unique trait is attributable to spending his formative years in refugee camps, after his parents escaped Vietnam when he was only six years old. As the first-born of Chinese-Vietnamese immigrants, he was required at a very young age to lead and look after his five siblings.
Years later, Nick is a designer at an engineering firm (by day). Nights and weekends, he’s a self-taught artist, chef, gardener, all-around handyman, and an incurable fisherman. These days you can find him creating his next artistic masterpiece or escaping for many hours to the riverbank, on a quest for his next big catch.
As a board member for Täbū Ohana Orphanage, Nick has felt at home working with teammates with whom he shares both personal histories and life values.
Secretary
When Nalesh was five, he immigrated with his parents and two little sisters from the South Pacific island to Sacramento, CA. Having only known his native languages, he found it hard to fit-in. Nalesh recalls saying very little during the earlier days in the U.S. for fear of being misunderstood. That all changed when a teacher set aside reading materials just for him to help foster his English learning.
That turning point set into motion a lifelong love for learning. Nalesh since earned degrees in Marketing and Management, and graduated Magna Cum Laude. And his passion for technology has earned him eight U.S. patents, which are utilized at Fortune 10 companies in digital media, mobile devices and connected cars.
Teaching and helping children is the passion that brought him to the board of directors at Täbū Ohana Orphanage.
Täbū Ohana Orphanage works in association with Friends of Vinh Son Orphanage (https://www.friendsofvso.org/), which is a non- profit 501 (c) (3).
Our mission at Tabu Ohana Orphanage was borne as a result of efforts by a small group of volunteers to help raise resources to support children at Vinh Son Orphanage.
Friends of Vinh Son Orphanage manages the charitable giving that gets to the kids in Vietnam. We are dedicated to supporting their efforts and increasing access to resources for the children.
