We help 400 Vietnamese children to get
life-changing surgery.
You can help the children to live a more independent and happy life. We promise that your donation goes straight to the children and their families. In these difficult times, we support some of the families also with food and learning materials.
Please have a look at the people we helped.
What We Do
We send doctors into the jungles and hidden slums of Vietnam to find the children and families who need our vital help.
We bring the children to hospitals and arrange for their surgery.
The most common surgeries we support are removal of brain tumors, correction of bone malformations of the skull and face, repair of congenital heart disease, and correction of spinal abnormalities and treatment of injuries sustained from major blunt trauma and problems in fetal development of the lungs.
We bring their families as well, so the children don’t have to go through it alone. We all remember how terrible it was to be alone as a child in the hospital. Then we bring everyone back home and pay for ongoing after-care, education and training, to give them the chance to earn money and build a secure future for themselves.
To do all this in 2021 we need 200,000 Euros.
So please give as much as you can and please spread the word among all your friends.
Every cent you donate goes straight to the people.
I promise that I will pay all overhead, so every penny you give will
go straight to those who need it.
I was invited to a house in Saigon where families with very different disabilities live together and help each other. The blind carry the people who can’t walk, the deaf cook and together they make the best parties ever. Here I met Duyen. She and her two brothers are sitting in wheelchairs.
I hired Duyen to find families with disabled children all over Vietnam and help them in a very unbureaucratic way.
Duyens tough life made her the most compassionate and reliable specialist for the job.
When I went to Hanoi looking for ways to help people in need. My search brought me to a street-side Banh Mi (sandwich) stall where I ate quite a few delicious sandwiches and drank a lot of beer as I got to know a wonderful man called Dong Van An. While his family make and sell the best sandwiches in Hanoi, Mr An works tirelessly with a team of doctors to find and help disabled children.
Mr. An introduced me to the founder of his organisation, Jo Koster. For 18 years, he’s been raising money and designing prosthetic limbs in the Netherlands, which are 3D printed in Vietnam, to give people with missing limbs the independence they need. Jo and Mr An have helped thousands of families already, and now we’re all working together to do even more.
We don’t only aim to heal the physical wounds or give short-term relief.
When the surgery is done, we give long-term support to the whole family; pay for English lessons and training in creative skills, and do all we can to make sure our friends can support themselves and gain the security and happiness they deserve.
About Niko
I was born in 1960 in Cologne, Germany. I’m one of the survivors of Thalidomide, and I’m lucky because I was born into a very caring and accepting family. After graduating from a so-called “normal” high school, I started fulfilling my need to help others by reconciling immigrants with their families in Rwanda.
