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Vietnamese Actress & Pop Star Ha Phuong Donates Multi-Media Arts Center |
Vietnamese pop star Ha Phuong will announce the creation of the Ha Phuong Foundation with an initial million dollar donation at an event at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort in Huntington Beach, CA on Friday evening, April 4. Her inaugural foundation project will be the construction of a multi-media arts center in partnership with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Garden Grove. The arts center will open its doors this Saturday morning with a visit from Ha Phuong.
Ha Phuong is a popular Vietnamese singer and actress who has released 12 solo albums and numerous other compilation CDs. She has also starred in a number of films and Vietnamese soap operas. Ha Phuong has performed live in concert internationally as well as in the U.S., including at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
In an extraordinary demonstration of her commitment to helping others, Ha Phuong has pledged all her future earnings to the Foundation, directing 100% of revenue -- including DVD/CD sales, concert revenue and royalties -- from her music and acting career to the Foundation. The Foundation will center its work around two primary objectives: 1) helping underprivileged children, and 2) supporting music and arts.. The Ha Phuong Foundation is the culmination of the founder's passion for music and her passion to support children's causes. The Foundation will initiate and support projects in the U.S. and Vietnam.
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Ha Phuong Foundation (Vien Dong Daily) |
LTS: Together with her activities in music and theatre fields, Ha Phuong is also known as an enthusiastic person in doing charity with a compassionate heart open to everyone. She provides help not only to poor and disadvantaged people in the country but also to friends and overseas people in hardship mishap. In a recent conversation when Ha Phuong came back to Orange County for her new cai luong DVD release, with her gentle smile and shining eyes, she revealed a long-term charity plan, which was drawn out to take care of disadvantaged people like what Vietnam Relief Effort has been doing in the past years (VNRE was founded by Chinh Chu, Ha Phuong’s husband and has provided much support to disadvantaged people and victims of natural disasters in the hometown of Vietnam).
To understand more about her – a successful singer with an enthusiastic heart always heading to disabled and disadvantaged people who are burdened with mishap and hardship in this tragic life, please read the following conversation between Ha Phuong (HP) and Lam Tuong Du (LTD):
LTD: Would you please tell us the name of your newly-established charity foundation, when and where it is introduced to the public?
HP: The foundation is established by myself with the name of Ha Phuong Foundation. It will be introduced in the Orange County early April 2008.
LTD: Ha Phuong and Chinh Chu have a pretty big charity foundation named Vietnam Relief Effort, which has been in operations for years. Why are you going to set up a new one?
HP: To explain in detail would take a lot of time. Let me tell you in brief. Ha Phuong Foundation and Vietnam Relief Effort have the same purpose of doing charity, i.e providing necessary help to disabled and disadvantaged people. The only difference is that Ha Phuong Foundation focuses on providing more care to artists who are in difficulty or mishap.
LTD: Why the target beneficiaries of Ha Phuong Foundation are artisits but not other people?
HP: As an artist, Ha Phuong has been lived in this field. And I have experienced the sorrow and joy of an artist. Therefore, I understand the misfortune and mishap of an artist. The artists are like my big family. The only difference is that I am more lucky than some other ones. Therefore, helping those artists – though I can help only some of them - is the duty and responsibility of those who sympathize and love each other.
LTD: Could you please tell us more about the beneficiaries and support methods of Ha Phuong Foundation?
HP: In general, our beneficiaries are artists and people who has been working in this field including performance and production, music, theatre and films as well as their family. If they are in need of support, we would provide necessary help in our ability.
We also facilitate the disabled, orphans and disadvantaged people to develop their talent of arts.
Besides, we will hold competitions, grant scholarships in arts for the youth with ambition.
We will build classrooms and schools and let our professionals train those who are talented in arts but do not have conditions to pursue their career as an artist.
We provide jobs for artist families in mishap.
Moreover, we build clinics, provide medicine and raise artist orphans.
In a nutshell, the foundation will try its best within its current ability to provide support to help the disadvantaged overcome their hardship so that they can earn for their livings in the long term as well as support talented and ambitious people who lack opportunities due to their poverty.
LTD: According to what you have shared, the support program of Ha Phuong Foundation for disadvantaged artists are very diversified. So, apart from the founder, has the foundation received support from other benefactors?
HP: We have to initiate first. Then, Ha Phuong thinks there will be more benefactors supporting these charity activities. What we do will tell our will and then, more hands will join to bring happiness to other people and to ourselves as well.
LTD: Could you share with us which work will be initiated first as a platform for other steps of the foundation?
HP: The day on which we open Ha Phuong Foundation is very near already. On that day, in Huntington Beach, Callifornia, Ha Phuong will share more interesting and surprising facts. I hope that Ha Phuong Foundation will win understanding and support from other people. May God grant favours to those who are disbaled, underpriviledged and disadvantaged. |
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