For a while this year, My partner Ethan and I have created a grant proposal to help children in Vietnam or other parts of the world. Our idea for this project is to coordinate with a group about an issue specific to Vietnam or Vietnamese Americans and then have an event around it, either a panel discussion, a documentary, an exhibition, or something else. We’ve been looking at several organizations such as DVAN (Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network), Koto, Kidspire, Care-For-Children, and more. We’ve also been looking at several prominent Vietnamese speakers and activists with who Poly has connections, like Nick Ut, Lely Haslop, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Marcelino Truong. Our goal is to have a variety of experts in different fields with ties to the Vietnamese experience. We want to focus on a set of issues or topics that we haven’t chosen yet through a panel discussion but are thinking about now. We have ideas about rural education, promoting Vietnamese artists, the connections between Vietnam and Afghanistan, and the competition between American and Chinese influence in the country. We could also potentially look at the Vietnamese-American refugee experience or the recent Asian hate crimes. For the Afghanistan idea, we could partner with other global scholars focusing on Afghanistan and tie our topics together through a joint panel discussion and an action plan. We may also talk about neighboring countries to Vietnam in Southeast Asia like Cambodia, Thailand, and Myanmar and their connections to Vietnam. Both of us have been to Vietnam and are very interested in its foreign relations and culture, so we have a pretty natural topic. Our themes are all related to America’s connection to Vietnam somehow. We are still undecided on our action plan that would follow our panel discussion. However, some of our ideas include partnering with some of the organizations that the speakers are a part of or partnering with schools in Vietnam. We hope to educate our audience about Vietnam and Southeast Asia issues as a whole.
Our ideas for a grant proposal are all tied to our Capstone project themes. Both of us agree that education is a significant issue in Vietnam and ideally center our focus on that topic. One of the organizations we are thinking of partnering with is the Vietnam Education Fund. We would need to write a grant proposal to raise money for school supplies, food, possibly electronic devices, and more. Vietnam is one of the countries that has been hit hard by COVID, which has affected education. Many kids don’t have access to the internet since they live in remote, mountainous areas and thus can’t join their online school. Some of the parents of younger children might have to take time off from work to watch them, which reduces productivity and affects their jobs. We want to provide and equip students with the right tools and supplies needed to receive a quality education. We'll be presenting our final grant proposal on Monday the 28th of February, so wish us luck!
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