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GGC Volunteers Ltd is an Australian registered charity. You can click on the ACNC icon above to check our charity registration. We support those organisations, programs and facilities in Vietnam that fulfil our charitable purpose. We do this by sending great volunteers and student groups to assist in improving the health, education and social welfare of the children within the Da Nang region under the auspices of a small but very dedicated Vietnamese social entity.

We have three hard working voluntary Directors in Australia, where we are based, and all of us have spent time volunteering in Vietnam with this program.

 

We know it, we love it, we support it.

 

We want to share it with you! 

But first, you should know something about us....we aren't high tech, or 'corporate'. Our photos are usually taken on a phone with one child on our hip and three hanging off our legs. We are scrupulously honest and hard working and we care that you are well prepared and organised for your trip. That we may help change the lives of the children, staff and families in Vietnam is everything to us. 

 

 

Sandra Downes - Managing Director

Individual Volunteer and Student Clinical Placement Coordinator, Therapy Consultant

(keeping all the balls in the air!)

 

Call me Sandie! When you volunteer with us, most of you will get to know me very well during your preparation with GGC Volunteers.

I'm an Australian children's physiotherapist, and I've volunteered frequently in Vietnam for the last 10 years. It feels like what I was meant to do with my career. 

I have a tolerant and very supportive husband, three grown children (two of whom love Vietnam almost as much as I do), three cats, a disabled dog and a crazy little puppy (2018 update, add 5 chickens and three alpaca to my crazy animal family!)

Giving time to Vietnam has sometimes been a challenge, but my dedication to changing lives in the only way I know how, by offering myself and my knowledge and skills as a physiotherapist, is reinforced every single time I go by one simple thing. The children and families benefit from our help. 

When I see children improve in so many ways often using just simple and commonsense help, it energises me to continue.

What more can I say? I love the children of our program, I admire and call the Vietnamese staff my friends, and I'm determined to help them all.

 

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Anna is an early childhood educator who began volunteering in Vietnam in 2010. Since this time, she has lived for a while there, and over the last few years has raised substantial amounts of money to support the care and health of the children, their families and many needy facilities in Tam Ky.

Anna focuses on orphanage and community work, an important facet of which is the support of extremely impoverished children and their families within their communities to enable the families to keep their children at home and out of the orphanages.

 

 

Benita Mayze-Director

Teaching Consultant, Treasurer, Assistant Volunteer and Student Coordinator

(keeps our working life fun)

 

 

Benita is a special needs teacher who tells us she has retired. We will need to see this to believe it however.

She has been over to the Vietnam program mulitple times now, and she is an amazing help in consulting with Vietnam regarding the education needs of some of the children in our program.

 

She has been employed in education for the past 20 years.  During this time she has worked extensively with children with special needs.  Benita developed a passion for working with children with hearing impairments and ASD. 

 

Benita first volunteered in Vietnam 5 years ago and this began her love for helping the children of Vietnam by assisting in various orphanages and working alongside the beautiful Vietnamese people to assist them in treating and caring for their young.

 

When not in Vietnam Benita is always looking for new recruits and spreading the word on what a wonderfully, rewarding and humbling experience volunteering is.

 

She hopes to continue her involvement with Vietnam for many more years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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About us...

Take a look at our yearly activities.

• The following report is a summary of the activities of GGC Volunteers Limited in 2015-2016. Please read it to find out some of the ways we are working toward achieving our charitable goals 

• Click on GGC Volunteers Limited 2016-2017 Annual Report here.

• Click on GGC Volunteers Limited 2017-2018 Annual report here

 

 

Anna Papoutsakis - Director

Secretary, Social Media

(new wife, new mum and dedicated to Vietnam-so just a little busy!)