In February 2025 we made our monthly visit to the Song Lo Orphanage with food and general supplies. We coordinated with the caretakers and made a list of items they needed. We also told them that we were going to bring something fun just for the children. On the day of the visit, our team bought everything at local markets, loaded up a van, and made the drive out to the orphanage.
For general supplies, we brought tofu sheets, mushrooms, fresh vegetables, vegan pork, vegan sausages, vegan meat patties, seasonings, oyster sauce, cheese, Jello, flour, mung beans, black beans, eggs, quail eggs, garbage bags, body wash, face wash, tiger balm, and napkins.
As a surprise, our team brought out new comic books for the children to enjoy. They immediately dove right in!
This charity trip was made possible through the kind donations from Christopher Dang. Thank you!!!
ABOUT THE SONG LO ORPHANAGE
The history of the Song Lo Orphanage’s beginnings is heartwarming. As the story goes, a Buddhist monk was traveling in the countryside when he encountered a woman who said she could not care for her 2 children. She left the babies with the monk and fled. Not expecting to have 2 babies to care for, the monk made his way to the Song Lo pagoda, and the head nun at the pagoda, Sister Cat, agreed to care for the children. From that point on, orphans have been either brought to the pagoda, or abandoned at their gates. Formed in 2012, the Song Lo Orphanage cares for a small group of young children. Located adjacent the Son Lo pagoda, it’s a small facility deep in the countryside west of Nha Trang.
