"Use one book one hundred
ways; each way one hundred times & each time with one hundred
children"
- Prof.
Somboom Singkamanan
°Portable Mobile Library
°Rural Infrastructure Development
°Blind Massage Center
°Dental Health & Education
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About
GVF
Global Village Foundation is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization, founded in 1999 by author and humanitarian Le Ly Hayslip, focusing on sustainable community development projects emphasizing education and peace-building at the grassroots level in Vietnam. We are based in Hoi An, and work directly with the rural communities of Quang Nam province. Our current projects include a portable mobile library project for primary-school aged youth, a blind massage center project, a dental health and education project, and a rural infrastructure development project. Our primary mission is to empower economically marginalized rural community members with knowledge through literacy development and health education programs, so that these groups will be able to achieve income sufficiency thereby having the opportunity to participate in greater equity in Vietnam's socioeconomic development goals. Through the hard work of our dedicated staff and volunteers, we seek to break generational cycles of rural poverty, illiteracy, and hopelessness.
About Our Founder
Le Ly Hayslip has proven herself to be a woman of many interests and has multiple talents as a humanitarian, philanthropist and peacemaker. She has devoted herself to the children of Asia while building a bridge of peace between the United States and Vietnam over the last 20 years. Le Ly Hayslip is a Vietnamese-American who grew up in a poor village near Da Nang, Vietnam during the war. She is the author of two autobiographical bestsellers; When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Child of War, Woman of Peace, which were adapted for the film Heaven and Earth by Academy Award-winning director, Oliver Stone.
Le Ly survived the horrors and hardship of war in Vietnam, overcoming all odds and moving to the US in 1970. In 1986, Le Ly returned to Vietnam and was stunned by the devastation, poverty and diseases left by the US / Vietnam War. Seeing an opportunity to make a difference, she founded East Meets West Foundation and became a bridge builder by bringing American groups back to Vietnam to help restore her motherland and open the dialogue between the two nations.
Since that time, the positive progress towards healing the wounds of war has been remarkable. Having accomplished her initial mission with East Meets West, Le Ly left her first organization and founded Global Village Foundation in 1999 to empower others to stand up and make a difference by participating in sustainable community development projects in Vietnam. Le Ly’s involvement demonstrates in a powerful way how volunteers too can become peacemakers throughout the world.
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  Located on the south central
coast of Vietnam, Quang Nam Province is home to roughly 1.4 million
inhabitants living within an area of 10,408 square km with a per capita
income of 270 USD (2005)--significantly lower than the national average
of 636 USD. In this province frequently susceptible to
seasonal flooding, and plagued by a lack of funding for education,
Global Village Foundation is stepping in with the support of our local
and international donors and volunteers to address the pressing housing
and education development needs.
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