The site visit for today included a trip to Vina Capital, an NGO focused primarily on the education, funding, and healthcare of young women and small children. As is interesting with many other companies in Vietnam, the role of the government in Vina Capital is different from many other American NGOs. Vina Capital works in conjunction with the Vietnamese government to address the issues that the Ministry of Health believes are most pressing. In doing so, Vina Capital receives support and guidance from the government to be able to address the issues that are in the best interest of the nation. For example, the Ministry of Health recently told Vina Capital that one of the most important issues that need to be addressed in Vietnam is cancer. Since many people do not know they have cancer until the later stages which are the deadliest, many more Vietnamese die of cancer than necessary. More specifically, the average cancer survival rate is around 75%, while Vietnam’s rate is closer to 30%. To address this, Vina Capital aims to educate people, especially in rural areas, about cancer to get them to hospitals in earlier stages of cancer. Additionally, the CEO of Vina Capital touched on the firm’s future goals of getting more and more Vietnamese people the education they need, whether at home or abroad, to become doctors and healthcare workers who can address cancer needs. He also talked about how efficient current Vietnamese medical procedures are, stating that a congenital heart surgery here costing $4,500 has the same rate of success as those costing over $100,000 in the United States. Because of this, Vina Capital hopes that an increase in the funding and education of Vietnamese healthcare workers will provide a large return through reductions in cancer deaths.