The instant start of Vietnam Childhood and Health can only be explained by two reasons:

First of all, the political and then humanitarian commitment of one of its founders, from 1969 to 2089, who was awarded one of the highest national distinctions for “services rendered to the Nation” by Phan Van Khaï, Prime Minister at the time. during the American war (1969-1975), then the congratulations of the popular committees of Nam Dinh and Bac Giang for all the humanitarian activities carried out in their province, from 2000 to 2006, before the creation of Vinaes.

Then the support of his two old friends of forty-three years, respected by all for their life devoted to minority ethnic groups within their association "Cultural Charity Funds" (C.C.F.), faithfully supported by a Swedish NGO, during more than two decades, until the day when age, for one, and legs, for the other, signaled the hour of their definitive retirement.

Mr Huu Ngoc. The intellectual and literary popularizer, decorated with the French Academic Palms in 1997. His lectures "Three thousand years of Vietnamese history and culture in one hour", in French or in English, for around twenty years years in front of more than twenty thousand listeners, all nationalities combined (statesmen, researchers, historians, academics, tourists, etc.), speak volumes about his desire to share and build a bridge between Vietnam and the West.

Mr Bang. The pragmatic, sole photojournalist colonel of the elite corps, present on all battlefields, from 1946 to 1980, French-speaking and Francophile, spiritual father of the Muongs, Thaïs and Dzaos of the Diên Biên Phu region, tireless solitary walker on the ridge line to thank ethnic minorities for having saved Vietnamese – sometimes French – soldiers and to offer children these “ephemeral gifts” which are balloons.

So without these two endearing figures - today well over a hundred years old and still alert - the veil thrown over their Vietnam, known to no one, could never have been lifted. A long journey in Bac Bô (Northern region) before reaching Nghê An of Trung Bô (Central region), cradle of Ho Chi Minh, uncultivated and rocky land. The third region Nam Bô (the South), a prosperous delta and economic heart of the entire country, too far from our base, does not fall within the scope of our activities.