Yang Mao - Spring is here!

On a chilly early morning, Yang Mao looks like a beautiful painting. Mist covers the mountains, and the wooden stilt houses perched on the hills keep their doors shut against the wind. The little path through the village is lined on both sides with wildflowers in shades of purple and yellow. Adults and children rub their hands together for warmth. A little warmth of spring!

Yang Mao, Y Tam is coming soon to welcome a spring full of excitement with you!

Program: Highland Spring Festival 2020

I/ PURPOSE AND MEANING

Y Tam has chosen to return to Yang Mao in spring, bringing together the colors and scents of nature with the warmth of human hearts to create a beautiful spring in this remote highland region.

That day will be a very important one: Y Tam will hold the inauguration and handover ceremony for the Clean Water for Tar Village project after 4 months of work, and the villagers will hold a water offering ceremony, a custom of the M’Nông people, to celebrate clean water coming to the village together with Y Tam.

On this occasion, Y Tam also wants to hold a vibrant spring festival for the villagers and children of Yang Mao to enjoy. It is also a chance for volunteers to leave the city and experience a very different spring in a faraway place.

Time: 11-12/1/2020 (solar calendar), corresponding to 17,18/12/2019 (lunar calendar)

Location: Tar village, Yang Mao commune, Krông Bông, Đăk Lăk

II/ SPRING FESTIVAL PROGRAM

1/ Inauguration and handover ceremony for the Clean Water for Tar Village project: estimated budget of about 500,000 VND for ceremony supplies.

2/ A spring festival for the ethnic minority children: estimated budget of about 24,000,000 VND

– 800 packages of cakes, candy and milk for the children attending the spring festival, from kindergarten through primary and secondary school: estimated at about 12,000,000 VND
– Cook 800 servings of bánh canh noodle soup and herbal sâm drink for the children at the festival: about 5,000,000 VND
– Decorate and run the spring festival with 15 booths for folk games, food, bingo, a traditional calligrapher...: 5,000,000 VND
– Games, performances and a spring-night campfire: 1,000,000 VND
– Year-end review and thank-you for Y Tam volunteers after a year of volunteer service: 1,000,000 VND

3/ Tết (Lunar New Year) gifts for the villagers: estimated budget of about 20,000,000 VND

– Wrap 200 bánh tét (sticky rice cakes) to give the villagers: about 5,000,000 VND
– 150 Tết gift packages for 150 households in hardship, each including cooking oil, sugar, fish sauce… estimated at about 100,000 VND per package x 150 = 15,000,000 VND

4/ Transportation

– 45-seat coach: 14,500,000 VND
– Truck: 4,000,000 VND

III/ TOTAL ESTIMATED FUNDING AND IN-KIND DONATIONS FOR THE PROGRAM:
1/ Inauguration ceremony: 500,000 VND
2/ Spring festival: 24,000,000 VND
3/ Tết gifts for the villagers: 20,000,000 VND
4/ Coach and truck transport: 18,500,000 VND

– TOTAL ESTIMATED BUDGET FOR THE WHOLE PROGRAM: 63,000,000 VND

III/ TRANSPORTATION, TIME AND LOCATION

1/ Transportation: 45-seat coach

2/ Planned schedule:

Depart for Đăk Lăk on Friday evening at 7:30 p.m., 10/1/2020 (solar calendar), corresponding to 17,18/12/2019 (lunar calendar), and return on Sunday afternoon (Y Tam will email you the detailed schedule)

3/ Meeting point: the gate of Nguyễn Thượng Hiền School facing Hoàng Văn Thụ Street (Bảy Hiền intersection, Tân Bình District)

IV/ SIGNING UP FOR THE PROGRAM

This year's Y Tam Spring Festival is not only for the villagers and children: Y Tam also wants to bring together everyone who has ever taken part with Y Tam, so that we have a chance to look back on what Y Tam has achieved over the past 5 years and look ahead together to what we will do next. Y Tam will therefore email all of you so that you can sign up.

- The participation fee for each person is: 300,000 VND; Y Tam has covered part of the transport cost and all meals.

V/ SUPPORTING THE PROGRAM

The spring festival is only 3 weeks away, and there is a great deal Y Tam must prepare in advance to run the program. So Y Tam very much hopes for the support of donors near and far, so that together we can bring a warm spring to the villagers and children of Yang Mao.

ALL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROGRAM CAN BE SENT TO:

Y Tam Volunteer Organization

Office address: 958/65/24 Lạc Long Quân Street, Ward 8, Tân Bình District, Ho Chi Minh City.

Phone: 098 567 4772

Bank accounts:

Account name: Đào Thị Minh Lệ

1/ DongA Bank: Account number: 0101607577 – District 3 Branch
2/ Vietcombank: Account number: 0721000640139 – Kỳ Đồng Branch,
3/ VietinBank: Account number: 107001354465 – District 3 Branch
4/ Agribank: Account number: 1606 205 971 141 – An Phú Branch.

Note: When transferring, please clearly state: Donor's name + Support for the spring program

Sincerely
Y Tam Volunteer Organization