 Help The Poor has launched the "Small Loan Program" for quite a while and several projects are in the working. Several families all over the country are being helped with a small fund to start raising livestocks or starting a crop. This fund will be paid back after 6 months or 12 months depending on the interest-free agreement. The success of this program depends much on the local management of the local nuns and priests.
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Video Report: A Trip to Kontum
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 Help The Poor volunteers in Saigon made a trip April 12-14, 2007 to Kontum to visit selected schoolchildren from poor families and directly handed support money for their schooling need. These lucky kids are only a few among the poor kids in the area.
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 Help The Poor organization, on April 10, 2007 handed the fund of 144 millions VND to the Buddist nun Thich Nu Minh Hai. This is part of a plan to help Tu An Pagoda build and upgrade its facilities for the orphans being raised here.
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 During last year's visit to Mong Tho parish in November 2007, Help The Poor team received requests by Father Nguyen Van Thuoc to build 2 bridges in the Cai San area.
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 During the weeks before the Tet (Early February, 2007), Truc Lam scout group and Thien Chi group visited and distributed gifts at several centers for the handicapped, the lone elders and the lepers living in Saigon as well as Dong Nai province.
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 Vinh Loi village residents in An Giang province were ever so happy as the Lunar New Year was coming! Not because they've become any richer, but because they were finally released of an anxiety that has been with them for years. Their children are now safer when crossing the new bridge on their way to school.
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 Four more wheelchairs were recently donated to the handicapped of Ro Luc parish, Hung Hoa province in North Vietnam. Help The Poor has been helping the handicapped all over the country and more than a hundred wheelchairs have been donated in Vietnam.
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 Let’s have a meaningful Christmas. And while we are buying for our families, think about other Vietnamese families. They need you.
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 Help The Poor volunteers in the Hoi An area share with us their concern about a family made homeless by the Xangsane huricane in October 2006. The whole house was swept away by the storm and the family of three has been living in a makeshift hut ever since.
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