Day 4: An Experience Like No Other

Somehow every day just keeps getting better and better. When researching Vina Capital and talking about it in our presentations for the Plus3 class, I never really fully understood what they were trying to do and how big the issue was that they were trying to solve. This lead me to really want to get an internship at some point with Vina Capital because the founder talked about how much of a life changing experience it was for him and it seems like helping the country is a really great way to improve myself as a person. Some of the methods that Vina Capital used were similar to America, for example they said that they bought 157 ventilators during Covid-19 for children who needed them to breath. Mind you, each ventilator costs about $30,000 and it isn’t very easy to raise that much money in Vietnam for a company like Vina Capital. But, they’re also different to America in the way that they physically go out and search for kids to help them because many rural provinces in central Vietnam don’t receive the care that they need and they aren’t able to go out and get the care themselves. Going forward, I feel like Vina Capital will begin to face a lot more pushback because they’re starting to really impact the female community in Vietnam in a positive way, but that’s not how the males are seeing it. It might cause problems in the future and you never know what the future holds and how they will be able to deal with it. But, one major way that they can deal with this possible challenge is by educating the males more on the problems that they’re causing and how other countries are able to avoid this and care for their whole population. Overall, Vina Capital has been the most impactful visit of the trip, and it’ll probably stay that way.

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