Sponsor the run for Nghia

Nghia was a fantastic father and he gave so much to his children.
Now that Nghia can't give all that he would want, we are raising money to support his children, Phibi, Tom and Dan.
A group of Nghia's friends are running the Melbourne marathon in memory of him and would like you to sponsor their effort. We hope that this money will make it easier for the childrens future education.
see more... to make a contribution, you can follow the paypal link
or if you would like to make a direct deposit to the fundraising account please email us and we will send the account details to you.


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.