As a humanitarian foundation, Reliefs for victims, caused by man-made or nature disasters, is an integral part of our VINAHF mission to alleviate the suffers that people endure during the hardships.

Since VINAHF was found, we have done our best to help the victims in all areas of the country, VINAHF has responded effectively with our reliefs plan for any major disasters.
In fact our very first VINAHF fundraising event was to raise fund for the disaster victims.

Thanks to our local volunteers our reliefs are not much but they are very effective because VINAHF’s reliefs come to right at the most difficult time, to the most needed victims.
Our reliefs are always directly to the victims, through our local volunteers with the overhead can’t exceed 5% of the relief values. In other words, at least 95% of the donation from donors will directly go to the victims, that has been our long, established policy because in almost 20 years of operation, all our volunteers have been serving VINAHF without any compensation in any forms.

In fact, in many places, our reliefs are longer and more effective because volunteers lives in the regions and execute our “2-phase” relief plans.

How VINAHF Relief is Different with Our Two-phase Relief Plan

In addition to our “one-time” charitable missions to impacted places to provide the reliefs for the victims like other common reliefs to disaster victims. Thanks to our network of volunteers, who locally live in the impacted regions, VINAHF has implemented our 2-phase relief plan and here how the plan works.

When the disasters hit the regions, our local volunteers likely the first to respond to provide emergency reliefs before other charitable organizations can reach to the regions. Sometimes that’s the most critical moment, especially when the regions are inaccessible (due to floods, disrupted transportation), temporarily isolated from outside.

Once other charitable organizations can access to the regions with more relief, then our volunteers will suspend VINAHF relief.

When these “outsider” reliefs are done, the disasters no longer in the news, helpers are back to their life, and the disasters are likely forgotten. However damages done by disasters need long time to recover, and that’s when our volunteers will resume the second phase with the efforts to help the local victims to get back to the normal life (with the donation we have received for the relief and our limited emergency funds).

That’s our VINAHF “2-phase relief” plan where we have local volunteers in the impacted areas.

For example, the 2020 historic disasters were forgotten but our volunteers are still working in the second phase to help local victims recover and we will continue until we exhausted the relief fund.