Tho HAVINH, Ph.D.

Tho HAVINH is the head of Global Training Learning and Development in the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva. He is visiting professor in several universities including UCL in Belgium and Geneva University in Switzerland.

He has published several books and many articles on socially engaged spirituality and humanitarian topics.  He is the co- founder of Eurasia Foundation and is Chairman of Eurasia Association.

 

 

 

Lisi HAVINH, MA,

Lisi HAVINH has been working and living with disabled children and youngsters for almost 30 years. She has worked as art-therapist, special teacher and has together with her husband and two children lived for 12 years with 7 disabled youngsters in a Camphill Community. Lisi is the director of Eurasia Foundation. She is living and working in Switzerland and Vietnam. Tho and Lisi are grandparents of three grandchildren. Lisi is active in various peace movements like the Global Peace Initiative of Women.

She loves to walk in nature, she loves to be with her family and friends. Lisi and Tho practice meditation and guide a meditation retreat every summer in the Swiss alps in Chandolin.

Minh Khanh TRAN

Minh Khanh TRAN is project manager of Eurasia in Vietnam. He studied special education during four years, from 1998 to 2002, in Switzerland at Perceval Foundation, St Prex. Since he came back to Vietnam in 2002, he supervised a great number of projects of Eurasia. He is active with training and following the educational staff in Hue. He is based in Saigon and will soon open an office there.

He will complete his own training in the near future through following a course in early intervention in Geneva University Hospital. He speaks French fluently.

He lives with his wife and his lovely daughter in Saigon.

Van Tu PHAM

Van Tu PHAM is the director of the Peaceful Bamboo Family (Tinh Truc Gia – TTG). He worked for many years at Morin Hotel, on of the most well known hotels in Hue. He then went to France to Le Béal for three months working there with adults living with disabilities and learning how to make jam. He worked for two years at Long Tho Pagoda, Beloved School, with adults living with disabilities, opening the first jam workshop there. Together with Mr Khanh he supervised the construction in the Peaceful Bamboo Family.

Together with his very dynamic wife Mrs Trinh and their two lovely daughters he lives in Hue. He speaks French and English. 

To Trinh PHAN

To Trinh PHAN is one of the pioneers in special education in Vietnam. Since 1999 she has taken part in various courses in special education and has accomplished the one year course organized at Hue University by Eurasia. She is a special teacher at Thuan Thanh school since 2000. Thuan Thanh school is one of Eurasias pilot projects in partnership with Hue City Education Department. She came three months to Switzerland to the Perceval Foundation. She is a very dynamic young woman who supervises and advises our staff in many ways. She is the manager at the Peaceful Bamboo Family.

She speaks perfect English.

 

My Nhien DANG

My Nhien DANG is a very longtime experienced special educator. She was one of our first contact persons for Eurasia in Vietnam in the year 1991. She was already a special teacher at Phu My Orphanage in Saigon at this time. Later she came to Switzerland to do a full four year training in special education at the Perceval Foundation. She then worked as a house mother in Camphill Dunshane, Ireland.

Since the  beginning of the Peaceful Bamboo Family she is in charge of the Boarding.

She will in the future take a role as an adviser as she will move back to Saigon to stay with her aging parents.

She is a very precious practical trainer for our new staff at TTG.

She speaks French and English.

Khai Quang DANG

Khai Quang DANG is a new staff member of the Peaceful Bamboo Family. But he is a very long time friend of the Eurasia Team. He and Mr Khanh were school friends in Saigon.They both made a full year internship at Phu My orphanage before coming to the Perceval Foundation for a four year training in special education

 After his studies Mr Quang moved to Germany. He became “housefather” in Camphill Foehrebuehl.

He decided to come back to Vietnam and to join the TTG team in October 2009.

We are very happy to work with him again.

He speaks English, French, German, Chinese and of course Vietnamese.

 

Sara Martine SERRANO

Sara SERRANO is the vice chairman of Eurasia Association. She helped at the beginning at Beloved School in Hue, Thuy Bieu, for their first three months. This school, for children living with severe disabilities was built and founded by Eurasia and M. Allan Sandler in the year 2000.

She again came to Hue for six months to help in the beginning of TTG (Tinh Truc Gia – Peaceful Bambou Family). Her help was extremely precious and appreciated by everyone. We all hope she comes back soon!

 

Thi Hoa MAI

Thi Hoa Mai is a teacher in Thuan Thanh schools, one of the first schools Eurasia created in Hue in the year 2000. She has joined many training courses organized by Eurasia. She specialized in the work with deaf and mute children.

She now comes twice a week to TTG and teaches our youngsters in general cultural subjects as reading, writing, counting, history, geography.

 

Huynh Ai Nhi

Huynh Ai Nhi also is a teacher in Thuan Thanh schools, one of the first schools Eurasia created in Hue in the year 2000. She collaborates actively with Eurasia since many years. She came to Switzerland for 3 months to the Perceval Foundation. She and Mrs Hoa come regularely to TTG (Peaceful Bamboo Family) to teach our youngsters.

 

Andres Pappe

Andres Pappe a member of Eurasia Association and a long time special teacher at Perceval Foundation has come eight times to Hue to give training courses to the special teachers in Hue.

He has introduced theater music but also many theoretical subjects.