Results: A few of B2L's many accomplishments:
Supported construction of a new secondary school;
Helped fund construction of an elementary school with a dormitory housing for orphaned or abandoned girls;
Helped fund dormitory expansion to provide housing for college-age women;
Helped fund new dormitory housing for boys;
Dormitory housing provides a safe and healthy home for up to 20 people;
Provide resources for a computer center at the secondary school;
Received a grant to provide a school bus for the Viet Anh Primary school in rural Vietnam, resulting in safer transportation;
Raised $1.5 million dollars to support the students and schools;
Sponsors provided 1,000 years of education to children who had no other means!
Target demographics: provide education, nourishment, basic healthcare, and hope to extremely impoverished children who would not have a chance to attend school.
Direct beneficiaries per year: approximately 250 children from 1st grade through college.
Geographic areas served: the Anh Linh School in Saigon/HCMC, and the Viet Anh Primary School in Da Teh province of Vietnam.
Programs: Our primary program focuses on providing for the students education and welfare. We transfer donations from private citizens to support indigent children in Vietnam to attend the Anh Linh Free school in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City. Sponsorship includes education, uniforms, eye exams, haircuts, lunch, and school materials.
Bridges to Learning (B2L) established the breakfast fund as a means to provide the elementary school children a nutritious breakfast each morning. Many children come from families too poor to provide more than one meal a day and hungry children do not learn very well.
Research & dissemination: B2L performs research to gather information that can be useful for B2L strategic decision-making and for its partners, collaborators. Information that advances the B2L mission can be disseminated to the general public using social media vehicles. B2L uses the communications from students and schools in Vietnam, stories about their progress, and other information to help donors and interested parties understand education in its global context.
