Care2Share
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Care2Share is a non-profit organization
assisting the people of Vietnam
. It was founded by a group of Vietnamese Americans from Ohio
.
Visiting Vietnam in 1999, the group members were touched by poverty and the low level of living conditions there. Thus came a conviction to promote help activities.
Care2Share was granted a non-profit status in 2001 with all its participants 100% volunteers. The organization supports blind children, deaf and mute children, neglected elders, victims of natural disasters, orphan
s, jobless entrepreneur
s, villagers from remote poor locations, poor students.
The group declares its mission to be the intermediary to communicate people’s needs and to bring relief and the human touch to the sufferings and neglected people in Vietnam by people who Care Enough to Share.
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
assisting the people of Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
. It was founded by a group of Vietnamese Americans from Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
.
Visiting Vietnam in 1999, the group members were touched by poverty and the low level of living conditions there. Thus came a conviction to promote help activities.
Care2Share was granted a non-profit status in 2001 with all its participants 100% volunteers. The organization supports blind children, deaf and mute children, neglected elders, victims of natural disasters, orphan
Orphan
An orphan is a child permanently bereaved of or abandoned by his or her parents. In common usage, only a child who has lost both parents is called an orphan...
s, jobless entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
s, villagers from remote poor locations, poor students.
The group declares its mission to be the intermediary to communicate people’s needs and to bring relief and the human touch to the sufferings and neglected people in Vietnam by people who Care Enough to Share.