
Water to needy villages in Vietnam
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This young woman is very pregnant, but she and many others carry around 20kg of water for their families – in some cases for more than 1 km.
Our charity – MiVAC Inc – is determined to help women like these in several villages in remote areas of Vietnam, and we need your help.
We will be piping water from new dams higher above the villages, to holding tanks and then to taps in the villages. We will also be installing toilets in the villages and schools.
We will supply the designs, as well as the materials needed (such as concrete and pipes), and the villages will provide the people to help with the work, as part of their contribution.
We need your help to contribute towards the costs of the materials.
MiVAC carried out similar projects in Laos where we perfected a system using gravity to feed water from water sources, via pipes, to central storage tanks, then delivered again by gravity to water points throughout the villages. MiVAC assisted some 14 villages in Laos – thus providing ready water to around 10,000 villagers.
In Vietnam, the area where the villages are located is in Quang Tri Province - between Khe Sanh and the Laos border.
Due to the Vietnam War, the area still has many high explosive bombs, aerially delivered mines, artillery rounds, mortar bombs, and the human-deforming crop- and jungle-destroying defoliant - Agent Orange - throughout the area. Recently MiVAC discovered that the current village water sources have been further contaminated by chemicals and fertilizer runoff from cropping activities. In addition, due to the remoteness, the limited Government funding often does not get to these villagers. Overall, this is not a great environment in which to live.
At MiVAC, we have an abiding desire to help provide the most basic of life’s necessities to the Vietnamese people as they pursue recovery from the effects of the Vietnam War.
MiVAC have, in conjunction with Quang Tri Province Department of Foreign Affairs (QT DOFA), agreed to begin applying our skills by assisting the people of the Ba Tang Commune. Whilst there are remnants of old water supply systems, very little remain viable. Our project will bring water and toilets to some 780 homes and 10 schools. Whilst we are not able to reduce the effects of Agent Orange we can achieve much in reducing the child mortality rate, improving health & hygiene, and improving quality of life with more readily available water.
This is not a great environment in which to live.
Phase 1 of our work will see water supplied to the Khe Plo community – which consists of 11 village groups of 1150 people. We will also provide toilets to the 231 houses here, plus 4 schools. Our costs estimate for Phase 1 is $US185,000.
MiVAC Credentials
MiVAC (Mines Victims and Clearance) is a 100% volunteer, Australian Non-Government Organisation (NGO), a registered not-for-profit charity, delivering more than 96% of donations to site. Initially started by Australian Army veterans from the Vietnam conflict and their families, MiVAC has in recent years responded to village requests to work with them in Laos to provide running water and toilet facilities to some 14 villages and about 10,000 village people.
In Vietnam, villagers continue to live amongst the dangerous remnants of war. MiVAC has now turned its attention to one of the poorest and most devastated parts of Vietnam where we have been advised that no other NGO is prepared to operate due to its remoteness.
How might you assist? There are some 120,000 people who require the type of assistance that we propose. MiVAC at best can only fulfil a small amount of the requirement. Our proposal will provide a model by which others may be persuaded to follow. MiVAC has the full backing of QT DOFA who are presently processing the last of the paperwork required to establish a Memorandum of Understanding.
Your contribution will enable us to help these very needy villagers in Vietnam. Please help.

Our charity – MiVAC Inc – is determined to help women like these in several villages in remote areas of Vietnam, and we need your help.
We will be piping water from new dams higher above the villages, to holding tanks and then to taps in the villages. We will also be installing toilets in the villages and schools.
We will supply the designs, as well as the materials needed (such as concrete and pipes), and the villages will provide the people to help with the work, as part of their contribution.
We need your help to contribute towards the costs of the materials.
MiVAC carried out similar projects in Laos where we perfected a system using gravity to feed water from water sources, via pipes, to central storage tanks, then delivered again by gravity to water points throughout the villages. MiVAC assisted some 14 villages in Laos – thus providing ready water to around 10,000 villagers.
In Vietnam, the area where the villages are located is in Quang Tri Province - between Khe Sanh and the Laos border.
Due to the Vietnam War, the area still has many high explosive bombs, aerially delivered mines, artillery rounds, mortar bombs, and the human-deforming crop- and jungle-destroying defoliant - Agent Orange - throughout the area. Recently MiVAC discovered that the current village water sources have been further contaminated by chemicals and fertilizer runoff from cropping activities. In addition, due to the remoteness, the limited Government funding often does not get to these villagers. Overall, this is not a great environment in which to live.
At MiVAC, we have an abiding desire to help provide the most basic of life’s necessities to the Vietnamese people as they pursue recovery from the effects of the Vietnam War.
MiVAC have, in conjunction with Quang Tri Province Department of Foreign Affairs (QT DOFA), agreed to begin applying our skills by assisting the people of the Ba Tang Commune. Whilst there are remnants of old water supply systems, very little remain viable. Our project will bring water and toilets to some 780 homes and 10 schools. Whilst we are not able to reduce the effects of Agent Orange we can achieve much in reducing the child mortality rate, improving health & hygiene, and improving quality of life with more readily available water.
This is not a great environment in which to live.
Phase 1 of our work will see water supplied to the Khe Plo community – which consists of 11 village groups of 1150 people. We will also provide toilets to the 231 houses here, plus 4 schools. Our costs estimate for Phase 1 is $US185,000.
MiVAC Credentials
MiVAC (Mines Victims and Clearance) is a 100% volunteer, Australian Non-Government Organisation (NGO), a registered not-for-profit charity, delivering more than 96% of donations to site. Initially started by Australian Army veterans from the Vietnam conflict and their families, MiVAC has in recent years responded to village requests to work with them in Laos to provide running water and toilet facilities to some 14 villages and about 10,000 village people.
In Vietnam, villagers continue to live amongst the dangerous remnants of war. MiVAC has now turned its attention to one of the poorest and most devastated parts of Vietnam where we have been advised that no other NGO is prepared to operate due to its remoteness.
How might you assist? There are some 120,000 people who require the type of assistance that we propose. MiVAC at best can only fulfil a small amount of the requirement. Our proposal will provide a model by which others may be persuaded to follow. MiVAC has the full backing of QT DOFA who are presently processing the last of the paperwork required to establish a Memorandum of Understanding.
Your contribution will enable us to help these very needy villagers in Vietnam. Please help.

Organizer
Brian Boon
Organizer
Cannon Hill, QLD