Our Schedule

We leave DFW Sunday, May 9, around noon and arrive in Vientiane, Laos (via Tokyo, Hong Kong and Bangkok) around noon on May 11.

• May 12 we meet with the Deputy Chief of the Ministry of Public Health, and an official from the Lao Women Union.
• May 13 we meet with Chief of the Secretariat of the Lao National Committee for the Advancement of Women. We have other Lao contacts to visit with, time permitting.
• On afternoon of May 13 we fly from Vientiane to Hanoi, Vietnam. Lao Airlines has recently approved the purchase of its first jet...doubtful that it will be ready yet. Staying at the new Hanoi Hilton.
• May 14 we meet with officials from DOLISA (Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs)
• May 15 an adventure in Hanoi with friends from Glocal Ventures, Inc., an NGO who helps us greatly in setting up meetings with Vietnamese officials and assures donations are used for their intended purpose. More on this adventure later.
• May 16 we visit Mr. Than, a very successful Vietnamese businessman we met last year thanks to the Nguyens. Mr. Than has been to our house (Hemingways) in Texas and we are returning the visit.
• May 17 we visit SS3, the half orphanage, half elderly facility we have been working with. We will get to see the pigs and chickens donated late last year. We leave Hanoi around midnight to return to DFW.
• May 18 we arrive back home, kiss the ground and our wives.