The Team
Linda Burn - Children’s Education Foundation Founding Director and In-Country Manager - Vietnam
CEF - VN spontaneously arose out of a need I saw in Vietnam to help some girls receive an education and have the opportunity of further education or training, whichever was most suitable for them. I wanted to see them have a life with choices, not the limited one I saw around me so often of extreme poverty with few choices and daily struggle. Poverty sometimes leads to parents taking desperate measures, consciously and sometimes not, of selling their daughters for a tidy sum, into arranged marriages where they end up being a prostitute, or to brothels or to factories where they are enslaved. A girl in schooling has less chance of this happening to her. This desire to help females from impoverished or marginalized communities still exists for me today 9 years later and maybe even more strongly than in the past, as I now have seen the differences an education makes here. There is no turning back.
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Nguyen Thi Bao Duyen - In-Country Assistant Manager Vietnam
I am a Buddhist and vegetarian. I believe in ‘live and let live’. I love animals very much and that was the reason why I became a vegan. I like to help all beings. Before working for CEF - VN I helped poor people including children whenever I could. I also have saved many abandoned, sick dogs and cats and raised them.
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Stephen Jackel USA Manager & Coordinator
I work for CEF - VN because I was inspired by its founder, Linda Burn. In the past I have contributed to charities for various causes, but it was not until I met Linda and saw first-hand her concern and love for the poor and needy children in Vietnam that I was moved to get actively involved in her projects.
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Bui Dinh Chu – CEF Phuc Le Education Project Coordinator
I like to help Children’s Education Foundation - Vietnam as I like to do charity work and like the values of Children’s Education Foundation - Vietnam.
When I was 12 years old my friend had to drop out of school because his family could not afford to pay his school fees, so I lost a classmate due to poverty. I felt that when I grew up I wanted to do something for my commune. I especially didn’t want to see children drop out of school due to poverty.
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Brian Kuhl – Yearly Volunteer and Long term CEF - VN supporter
I am attracted by the effort that Linda and her small band are making to provide better opportunities in life, through education, for children from impoverished families in Vietnam. I find it gratifying to know that any small help I may be able to provide, even by simple acts like visiting supported children and their families, is helping to make a difference for those people.
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