Saigon, August 31, 2002

To :        Brothers and Sisters,
              Lasallian Alumni and Friends

From : Brother Francois Tran Van Anh
           Visitor of the District of Vietnam

Dear LaSallians :

Greetings from Vietnam.

During the past 11 years, the La Salle Brothers of Viet-Nam have operated the DUC MINH Vocational Center and have been successful in providing gratuitous learning and job skills to over 700 poor, wandering street children and handicapped youth. Now, the Brothers wish to share their educational experience and extend their social contribution to the area of drug addiction, by establishing a Post-detoxification Center for the benefit of the indigent addicts.

Please find enclosed "the Project of Post-detoxification" with many details required for such a center. I would like to present to you, and pray you all to assist us to establish this center which is really necessary and helpful to those poor people.

With God's blessings and your assistance, we intend to start building the Post-detoxification Center by December 2002 and welcoming "young male addicts under 30 years old, non affected by HIV/AIDS, who voluntarily agree to participate for 12 to 24 months , to the post-detoxicafition program" by July, 2003.

I have asked Brother Valery An, from La Salle Vietnam House of the District of San Francisco, to receive all donations for and/or contributions to the realization of this project. Please send your check(s) -- tax deductible -- payable to : CHRISTIAN BROTHERS to his address:

La Salle Vietnam House
1103 Maxey Court
San Jose, CA 95132

You may get more info about "what's going on with this project" on the website : www.lasan.org.

Thank you very much for your consideration and generosity.

Sincerely yours in Saint De La Salle 

Brother Francois Tran Van Anh, fsc
Visitor