EFTP Conversation & Pronunciation Program

Dear colleagues,

I am a member of the Education For The Poor (EFTP) Organization in Southern California. Today I am writing this letter to ask you, the young Vietnamese Americans, to seriously consider opportunities to help Vietnam. As a person who carries Vietnamese blood, I want to help the country and its people, and I wish that you would join me in this cause. Please visit our website at http://educationforthepoor.org to know more about the EFTP mission.

As we all know, Vietnam recently became a new member of the World Trade Organization that promises to lead to plentiful foreign investments in the future. The visits of Bill Gates and a number of large U.S. companies give hope that more jobs will be created in Vietnam. In this regard, Intel, a major micro-chip manufacturer, has made a $1 billion investment. This good news profoundly concerns our EFTP members because the success of Intel’s investment will lure more business opportunities from the United States and abroad. This will be a good way to quickly get Vietnam out of poverty and this will also make a direct impact on the poor college students who are unemployed upon graduation. Therefore, the success of Intel is extremely important, especially to the young generations. This business opportunity comes only once; if we do not assist them to seize this chance, it will be gone forever.

In May ’06, EFTP members went to Vietnam to meet with religious leaders and students to advocate a spirit of good work ethic, the need to learn English in order to communicate and understand the training sessions conducted by foreign companies like Intel. It is because, through communication, a mutual understanding can be preserved and an amicable relationship built up. A lack of communication may generate a situation of mistrust and dissatisfaction that could lead to an irreparable fracture between the employees and their supervisors.

During these discussions, students have voiced their concern over the difficulty of pronunciation and speaking of English, for which they feel embarrassed. They asked if EFTP could help them overcome their English problem. To ease this concern, we sent our volunteer to Vietnam in July ’06 to conduct a testing program. The result was good. Our volunteer felt a bond with her students and said that she loved to help them again this summer. Our evaluator in Vietnam told us “beside learning conversations, the students were more open and sociable, not as intimidated as they were.” From that feedback, EFTP would like to continue this program in Summer 2007.

With these reasons, I would like to extend my invitation to you. Please spread the words to your friends and join our Summer English Program. With your cooperation, I strongly believe we can accomplish a lot of things that would benefit the unfortunate young generation and the nation as a whole. What we help them today will be permeable to the next generation.

Please join us in teaching the students in our homeland to fish.

Our Summer English Program is a five-week program during which we will provide lodging, daily meals, and transportation. In addition, each participant will receive a stipend of $200. I look forward to your participation in this program. Should you have any question, please do not hesitate to give me a call at (650) 888-4382.

Regards,
Education For The Poor
Los Alamitos, CA 90720
http://educationforthepoor.org