2020 ANNUAL REPORT 

THIS REPORT focuses on our efforts in Saigon in 2020.   Our micro project www.maitamhouseofhope.com was founded in 2005-2006 as a funding site in cooperation with John Toai, a Vietnamese priest of the Italian order, Missionaries of the Infirm (founder St. Camillus). John Toai is the founder of Mai Tam. Jill and Robert Morris provided the initial start-up seed money for the center/orphanage for the innocent victims of HIV/AIDS--infants, young children and widowed mothers in Saigon (HCMC). 

Mai Tam House of Hope has stabilized, is sustainable, is functioning at a high level of management, assuring appropriate social needs to all clients, including housing, healthcare, and additional educational opportunities through the tertiary level. A limited number of clients live in three buildings in Saigon based on age and gender, while other clients are cared  for in the community, at home, or extended family houses.

Mai Tam has progressed to a level at which the directors can organize projects of "giving back" to society where the HIV/AIDS clients of  the center go into distressed and underserved communities to provide basic foods to the desperately poor, e.g. farmers and fisher persons suffering at the hands of ecological disasters in the Mekong Delta or refugees  on the Vietnam-Cambodian border. We find this an extraordinary achievement – – a wonderful example of volunteerism by children that we as professionals can learn from and follow. 

The basic social data for the project remain stable. Some 85 infants/children with HIV/AIDS or affected by HIV/AIDS are housed in the center with some 20 HIV/AIDS mothers. Another 280 plus  clients are treated within the community, and live at home or with relatives. All clients attend school or a home schooled at the center.

This year we experienced the loss of a long-term client Maria after a heroic battle to survive. Her body resisted the essential drugs and she succumbed the second week of October, 2020.

                 May she Rest In Peace.

Summary:

In the time of Covid, MAI TAM has fended off the ravages of both HIV/AIDS and Covid-19. Through the extraordinary efforts of directors and volunteers at the local level, MAI TAM is now in a stage of development to give back to those with less, while still seeking out and saving innocent child victims of HIV/AIDS. The center is receiving worldwide support but funding is distressed in this time of Covid. The author and his wife will continue their efforts as long as it is possible.

To quote the writer, Saint-Exupery, "One step forward, always one step forward, never back".

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