This is the national slogan, which has become ours. We often read it at the schools' entrance where people pass by without reading it, particularly in Hanoi and in large cities where the establishments are already well equipped. On the other hand, in the mountains it is almost non-existent: Most of the establishments, erected more than twenty years ago for a supposedly "provisional" duration, are still standing, as shown in the photo of the old kindergarten in Pa Co above (rebuilt by Vinaes in 2008). Note the clerestory partition isolated from ground moisture by glass beer cans necked in the ground. In 2009, the children were finally installed in a real establishment with mats and duvets for napping.

To sneak out. In March 2007, we decided to visit Ba Vi because before, during his strolls, a former member of Vinaes came across a young woman with multiple disabilities wandering from street to street in the historic town of Hanoi. She was on her umpteenth runaway from her Aid Assistance Centre located 30 km away. With the help of a Vietnamese acquaintance who babbles English, he grabs snippets of information explaining that boredom is driving her to sneak out, but without telling how she is there. Then he buys and gives her a transistor radio and takes her back to his center.

In October 2016, we returned there to inspect the third well that we had just drilled. We never fail to go say hello to her She no longer runs away, recognizes us at first glance. Then she asks for news of her friend “Mister Jo” before telling us “Tell him it still works”.

Social Assistance Center Ba Vi No. 4. It houses a population between 300 and 450 disabled residents of all age categories, from newborns abandoned at birth left at the entrance to the center to adults abandoned by their loved ones. A huge wooded area where on the pediment of one of its buildings we can read: “Children of today, Humanity of tomorrow”.

While showing us around his center, being in confidential mood and without ulterior motives, the director admits to us that he no longer believes in "miracles", because since his appointment in 1984, his center has received a great number of international delegations. Their promises are only lure for attracting birds, such as that of Danielle Mitterrand, in 1993, during the official visit of her husban, the president of the French Republic Mitterrand. Without giving him our thoughts, we make him understand that he will hear from us at the end of 2007.

"Auntie’s can". At the end of that year, the head of humanitarian projects at the Cora Hypermarket after hearing this anecdote simply says, "It’s up to us to carry the Auntie’s can!"

... In summer 2008, the presence of clean water attracts the visit of fourteen European and Australian student associations for two months, which come to organize cultural events and draw the murals in the pavilions reserved for children. Until 2018, the following years see the centre gradually endowed with a self-sufficient economy (pigsty, fish farming, market gardening, poultry yard, modernization of the kitchen) and two other wells, still bounties from Cora.

Then our route takes us to other unexplored lands, in particular those placed under military control, in the border areas with China and Laos, access to which is conditional on a permit request.

Xin Cai. It is the village in the border area with China, in the far Northeast. In winter, the cold is 7°C in Ha Giang province, the highest region in the country. The presence of our builder, although officially authorized, is subject to rigorous surveillance, even when the district television comes to film the inauguration for regional news. The school is built for the children of a subgroup of the Dzao minority, nicknamed "Dzaos with shaved foreheads", covered with a terry cloth. A tradition of which none can give us the origin.

Yen Son. Unlike Xin Cai, Yen Son, backing onto the Laotian border in Nghe An province, enjoys a slightly milder climate in winter. The school, made of wooden boards, from the ground to the ridge covered with evergreen leaves, is open to all winds, located 480 km from Hanoi. This province is the limit of our radius of action: eleven hours on the road and only one inn where to take a break and eat. Here, in summer the sun and the continental wind coming from Siberia via Laos, are scorching. Four other brick schools will be built in villages close to Laos until 2017. The population is, unfortunately, well known to be the most drugged in the country, without the vice-president of the district people's committee acknowledging that this is so. It is their only way to forget hunger.

Five brick schools are built in villages near Laos, until 2017. The population is, unfortunately, well known for being the most drug addicted in the country, without the vice-president of the district popular committee which receives us, recognizing that it is so poor that almost all of the villagers in this hamlet take drugs to forget their hunger.

Between these two geographic extremes, Vinaes traces its plans, from year to year, with the complicity of its historical sponsors, without seeking to maintain relations with the local authorities, without hesitating to cut link and transfer the project to a another region as soon as there is a request for a personal subsidy or various pressures, as has happened more than once.