Happy times on volunteer trip with Prof. Algis Vingrys
Nghia's Life
Nghia was born in Vietnam lived there with his family completing primary school and starting high school in Ho Chi Minh City.
In his early years he made a lot of life long friends who he still kept in contact with, and visited on his trips to vietnam.
Nghia emigrated to Austrlia with his Mother, brother and sister when he was 15 years old.
Nghia's academic talent and adaptatude for new things allowed him to graduate as dux of wellington secondary college, only a
few years after arriving in Australia.
In the first year of his optometry degree he started a tutoring school for year 11 and 12 studuents. This School has helped many
students and Nghia was extremely proud of the excellent results his students have achieved. Nghia has had many of his students go
on to study many different tertiary degrees, even including students who have followed his footsteps into optometry.
When he graduated his bachelor of Optometry, he found that his tutoring business was thriving and was tutoring 3 nights per week and all weekend.
He began working in the world of Optometry with many different sessional positions.
About the same time as he graduated he also meet and married his beautiful wife Huong and soon after started a family with his daughter Phibi
followed 18 months later by Twins, Tom and Dan.
Aswell as mostly working 7 days per week and raising 3 children, Nghia still managed to find time to volunteer to help with “hope Vietnam”
which performed cataract surgery in Vietnam. Nghia travelled to Vietnam each year for several years to volunteer. He hands-on optometry skills
were utilised to help assess patients and assist with surgery. Even more valuable and enjoyable for Nghia was the oportunity to help the patients
who visited and explain and re-assure them in their own language, as he spoke very fluent Vietnamese.