A Foundation for Success Through Child Sponsorship

Thi Lam was born into difficult family circumstances. Because her father died while she was young and her mother was sick, Thi Lam and her two sisters went to live in Tay Dang orphanage when she was only five years old. The sisters arrived feeling very shy and sad, and they cried all day. Their bodies were thin because the family did not have the conditions to feed them well.

Since then, housemothers have loved, very carefully taken care of, and encouraged Thi Lam. With enough sleep and food to eat, Thi Lam’s health improved. The love, sharing, and mutual support of the housemothers and their foster siblings helped improve the mental and emotional health of Thi Lam and her sisters. Thanks to the daily activities and useful educational programs, Thi Lam gradually became more confident. Her sisters both attended college, and Thi Lam is now in the 12th grade.

She is an active child and studies hard. For 11 consecutive school years, Thi Lam has achieved the title of Good Student. Although the orphanage does not have funds for her to attend extra classes, Thi Lam has made her greatest effort to keep up with her classmates. In both years of high school so far, Thi Lam has received the title of Excellent Student, a testament to her dedication to her studies. At school, Thi Lam participates in extracurricular activities and class programs with great enthusiasm and energy. She is very talented in speaking and writing. Thus, she is the MC for many programs organized by the orphanage.

Her dream is to attend university after graduating from high school, majoring in Tourism or Marketing. She wants to travel to many places, discover new things about nature, people, life, and beautiful landscapes in Vietnam and other countries around the world.

It was not just the support of Pearl S. Buck International Vietnam that helped Thi Lam succeed, but also the support of her child sponsor, who encourages her to overcome life’s obstacles. Encouraging letters exchanged between child and sponsor create an intimate bond between two strangers who live far away from each other but are now close at heart. The love, caring and gifts from her sponsor have always been a huge encouragement for Thi Lam to overcome her difficulties, try her best in her studies, and make a great effort to pursue her dreams in life.

The spiritual and material support of PSBIV, in general, and her sponsor family, in particular, has made her much more confident, active, and determined to achieve her goals. With her constant effort, the great support of PSBIV, and the endless love of her beloved sponsor, Thi Lam, she has been given a strong foundation to become a compassionate and helpful citizen, and will certainly achieve her goals and succeed in the future.

For more information on child sponsorship, visit https://pearlsbuck.org/help-children-in-need/sponsor-a-child/