Friday, October 11, 2019

Traveling Back to Vietnam with the International Extremity Project

Dear Friends and Family:
We’re excited to tell you that we are returning to Vietnam in December 2019 to continue our partnership with the
US-based International Extremity Project (IEP), Can Tho General Hospital in Can Tho, Vietnam, and Children’s 
Hospital 1 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. As you may know, we’ve been working with these programs since 2004, 
and we are thrilled to be working with them all again.
This year, we will split our time between the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and bustling Ho Chi Minh City. We’ll 
work at the Can Tho General Hospital with the team of IEP nurses and surgeons to assess patients for foot and 
ankle surgeries planned for later that week. We will also provide direct clinical support and services to the 
Can Tho Pediatric Hospital and a local autism clinic. We will then go north to Ho Chi Minh City to Children’s 
Hospital 1 to again work with the pediatric physical therapy and speech pathology teams in hands-on open 
clinic with patients and to provide training lectures to area therapists and physicians.  
You have been very generous in the past in helping to support our participation in the IEP mission. If you are 
able to contribute to the mission again, we would be very grateful. Any donation that you make is tax-deductible. 
This year, your donations will be used to defray the shared $5000 in travel costs that we will personally incur 
to make the trip, with all additional money going to support the surgery team. 
Here’s how you can contribute:
Online (credit card): https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/1441540.
This site asks: “If you have a special purpose for your donation, please let us know.” Please 
select “International Extremity Project” from the drop-down menu AND complete the 
 “I want my donation to be dedicated…” field with “Amy Levin and Stacy Lerner.” 
By mail (checks only): Make checks out to ICAN (International Children Assistance Network). 
Please write “IEP- Amy Levin and Stacy Lerner” in the memo. 
Mail to:
International Extremity Project
1874 Great Highway
San Francisco, CA 94122
-You can also follow the International Extremity Project on Facebook and Twitter (@extremityproj)
We’d love to talk with you more about our plans—please ask us! Thank you again for your interest 
and all your forms of support,

Postscript...

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