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NEWSLETTER JANUARY 1, 2008
Even though we work with poor kids every day, I was still
deeply moved Sunday when I reaad this story in the local news paper.
This is a government paper. What a shame kids cannot be given a
chance for education. The curiculum here is so out of date and every
one knows it, but at least it is a chance to get an education. I was
so touched I am sending some one to go to that village and see what
we can do. It is just a few hours from here. I hope you will be
touched as well and help us help them. I am also sending Bibles.
Maybe some reading this will help and also pray fhr this endeavor. I
am sure we can get some of these kids in school.
I hope you can read the article. I had it scanned but
could not get it to send on e-mail. So I put it on the wall and took
pictures. The pictures did not work either so I retyped it. I still
have a lot to learn about computers.
We have to get birth certificates for some of our kids to
get them in school, but we can buy them. Some of these are from
parents that decended from the ones that were put in camps and
prisons at the end of the war, because they worked or fought with
the Americans, or French. When the kids were born they did not have
an ID so they could not go regester the kids.
I love you all,
Tom Tune
THIRST FOR EDUCATION GNAWS ATPOOR HAMLET
(TN-KIEN GIANG) In a poverity striken hamlet along the
coast of Kien Giang , the children with sun-nurnt hair say that more
than anything else, all they want to do is go to school.
Life is hard in the twenty-five household hamlet in Vinh
Lac Ward, Rach Gia City where parents must spend all day catching
fish and shrimp and childred collect recyclable waste to sell.
Whenever local officials come down to check on the
village, the children rush towards them asking whether they’ve come
to take them to school.
Dozens of the chidren have yet to have a chance for
education though they have long passed the age when most are
finishing primary school.
Many can’t attend school because they don’t have a birth
certificate, and others say its because their parents are too poor
to care.
Le Hoang Vu, a father of three said once in a while he
hits his oldest child for nagging him about going to school.
Support for Tom Tune should be sent to:
PACIFIC MISSIONS
Smithfield church of Christ
8008 Limerick Lane
North Richland Hills, TX 76180
Ph. 817 281- 6800
Support for Tom\"s Kids should be made out to Amazing Grace
International
and sent to:
P.O. Box 8453
Falls Church, VA 22041
Web site: http://www.hometown.aol.com/pacificmissions2
NEWSLETTER JANUARY 1, 2008
Even though we work with poor kids every day, I was still
deeply moved Sunday when I reaad this story in the local news paper.
This is a government paper. What a shame kids cannot be given a
chance for education. The curiculum here is so out of date and every
one knows it, but at least it is a chance to get an education. I was
so touched I am sending some one to go to that village and see what
we can do. It is just a few hours from here. I hope you will be
touched as well and help us help them. I am also sending Bibles.
Maybe some reading this will help and also pray fhr this endeavor. I
am sure we can get some of these kids in school.
I hope you can read the article. I had it scanned but
could not get it to send on e-mail. So I put it on the wall and took
pictures. The pictures did not work either so I retyped it. I still
have a lot to learn about computers.
We have to get birth certificates for some of our kids to
get them in school, but we can buy them. Some of these are from
parents that decended from the ones that were put in camps and
prisons at the end of the war, because they worked or fought with
the Americans, or French. When the kids were born they did not have
an ID so they could not go regester the kids.
I lve you all,
Tom Tune
THIRST FOR EDUCATION GNAWS ATPOOR HAMLET
(TN-KIEN GIANG) In a poverity striken hamlet along the
coast of Kien Giang , the children with sun-nurnt hair say that more
than anything else, all they want to do is go to school.
Life is hard in the twenty-five household hamlet in Vinh
Lac Ward, Rach Gia City where parents must spend all day catching
fish and shrimp and childred collect recyclable waste to sell.
Whenever local officials come down to check on the
village, the children rush towards them asking whether they’ve come
to take them to school.
Dozens of the chidren have yet to have a chance for
education though they have long passed the age when most are
finishing primary school.
Many can’t attend school because they don’t have a birth
certificate, and others say its because their parents are too poor
to care.
Le Hoang Vu, a father of three said once in a while he
hits his oldest child for nagging him about going to school.
Support for Tom Tune should be sent to:
PACIFIC MISSIONS
Smithfield church of Christ
8008 Limerick Lane
North Richland Hills, TX 76180
Ph. 817 281- 6800
Support for Tom\"s Kids should be made out to Amazing Grace
International
and sent to:
P.O. Box 8453
Falls Church, VA 22041
Web site:
http://www.hometown.aol.com/pacificmissions2
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