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ICAN currently supports 400 orphans and children in impoverished areas of Hue and Ba Ria - Vung Tau (Vietnam). For $5 per month, you can help provide schooling and daily necessities for a child. Many deserving children awaiting your help.
Financial aid to poor children
Delivering financial aid to students (Vietnam)

CPAP - Neonatal Care Program
There are 1.6 million babies born in Vietnam every year. 128,000 are born premature. Half of premature babies suffer from respiratory distress, and up to 30% of premature babies with respiratory distress will suffocate without the help of a simple machine called CPAP - Continuous Positive Air Pressure. Approximately 20,000 babies every year will die for a lack of CPAP, a basic piece of medical equipment standard in every U.S. hospital.

ICAN, The East Meets West Foudation, and Project Vietnam of the American Academy of Pediatrics have formed a partnership to save the lives of the very smallest babies. We will provide hospitals with this life-saving device, which is designed by an American engineer and manufactured in Vietnam. The CPAP unit gives premature babies with respiratory distress gentle breaths of air - just enough to inflate their lungs for a few days until they can breath on their own. Our goal in 2005 is to install hundreds of new CPAP machines in hospitals all over Vietnam. A CPAP machine made by our partner in Vietnam cost only $1000 - less than one-tenth the cost of one imported from the U.S.

Can you help? Your donation will bring a baby the gentle breath of life. Call 408-509-8788 to find out more or to donate.

Brochure: Page1 | Page2

 


 

Vitamin K program
ICAN collaborates with Project Vietnam (American Academy of Pediatrics, California Chapter 4) in providing Vitamin K injections for newborns at two pilot locations in Vietnam: Hanoi and Ha Tay. Vitamin K helps blood coagulate so that a person will not bleed to death. The most common bleeding form exhibited by newborns in Vietnam is hemorrhaging of the brain. In Vietnam, it is estimated that 2,000 babies annually suffer from brain hemorrhaging as a result of Vitamin K deficiency. Each newborn requires only one injection, which costs a mere $1. Your donations are well worth the effort to stamp out this cause of death for newborns.

Newborn
A newborn suffering from brain hemorrhaging due to
Vitamin K deficiency (Vietnam). (Photo courtesy of Project Vietnam)

Tue Tinh Duong Free Clinic
ICAN has been organizing campaigns and activities to raise fund for Tue Tinh Duong, a free clinic for the poor in Hue - Thua Thien (Vietnam). The clinic has been in service for 15 years, helping thousands of children, and now is in need of a new facility. Click on following link for details:

+ Tue Tinh Duong Page

Tue Tinh Duong Free Clinic
Free checkup for poor children

ICAN Make a Difference
This program is led by a young member of ICAN, Jasmine Ta, currently a Junior at Milpitas Highschool, to help provide needy children with a means to go to school without having to endure miles of walk under the scorching sun and tropical heat. In addition to helping children in Vietnam, this program aims to motivate Vietnamese American youth to participate in community service and reach out to help their less fortunate peers.
How it works:
- Pledge a $25 donation to ICAN to buy one bicycle for a needy child in Vietnam.
- Recruit your friends to help this good cause.

More details on brochure...

Offering bicycles to students
Delivering bicycles to students (Vietnam)
 


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