Nun brings love to orphans

Sister Bui Thi Hong Hanh receives gifts from the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee and sponsors to the Hanoi Parish Orphanage (Ho Nai Ward). Photo: Tran Thanh

Sister Bui Thi Hong Hanh receives gifts from the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee and sponsors to the Hanoi Parish Orphanage Center (Ho Nai Ward). Photo: Tran Thanh

This honor is a recognition of the great efforts in both religious and worldly affairs of nun Bui Thi Hong Hanh.

Religion and life go together

As of 2025, Sister Bui Thi Hong Hanh has been a member of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and a member of the Central Presidium of the Vietnam Catholic Solidarity Committee (VCS). Since 2023, she has been the Deputy Chief of Office of the Vietnam Catholic Solidarity Committee in Dong Nai province. In each role, she has always tried her best to serve the religion well and do good work in life.

Specifically, she has actively contributed to strengthening the great national unity bloc through participating in propagating the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws; campaigns and patriotic emulation movements; propagating and mobilizing the implementation of the Program of Coordinating Unified Action launched by the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee and the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committees at all levels...

According to nun Bui Thi Hong Hanh, everything she has done and is doing is aimed at the hope that the children at the center will have a roof over their heads, feel the sharing of human love, and together confidently move forward in life so that their lives will be better.

This has contributed to the effective implementation of the Campaign for the entire people to unite to build new rural areas, civilized urban areas, and live a good life and a good religion associated with the 10 contents of "7 good lives, 3 good religions" launched by the Central Committee of the Vietnam Catholic Bishops' Conference in Dong Nai province. Contributing to the creation of a vibrant competitive atmosphere in parishes and religious communities, bringing practical results in all areas of social life; encouraging Catholics, parishes, and religious orders in the province to promote medical, educational , charitable, social charity activities, gratitude, helping the lonely elderly, orphans, homeless children, and the unfortunate in society...

At the same time, when the whole country embarked on the process of restructuring the apparatus, the nun advised the Vietnam Provincial Committee for Religious Affairs to join with authorities at all levels to propagate the restructuring of the apparatus to help people understand the policies of the Party and State; meet and promptly inform priests, monks, and parishioners about stopping the activities of the district-level Committee for Religious Affairs to comply with the local authorities at 2 levels...

Bring love to orphans

In addition to the above contributions, Sister Bui Thi Hong Hanh also joined hands to build a home for orphans.

Sister Bui Thi Hong Hanh with children being cared for at the Hanoi Parish Orphanage (Ho Nai Ward). Photo: Van Truyen

Sharing about her participation in social work, Sister Bui Thi Hong Hanh said: Since 1994, the convent has sent her to study social work. By 1996, she had participated in many social activities related to helping the poor, the disabled, orphans, the elderly... After that, she was in charge of running the Hanoi Parish Orphanage (Ho Nai Ward). The center is taking care of 36 children. Among them, the youngest child is just a newborn. They are cared for and given the same learning conditions as other children in the community.

According to nun Bui Thi Hong Hanh, the children come to the center in many ways, including abandoned children discovered by local people and brought to the center through many procedures; some children are placed in front of the center's gate... After receiving the children, the center informs the local authorities to carry out the necessary procedures to adopt the children.

Raising children is difficult, educating them is even more difficult. Due to circumstances, the children here are more or less self-conscious and somewhat hesitant when interacting with the outside world. To help them always be confident in themselves, first of all, she and other nuns show care and love but not indulgence, thereby building the center into a big family that loves each other. At the same time, during the development of the children, the nuns encourage each child to overcome obstacles to practice morality, strive in studying to become useful people for society, and create a good life for themselves in the future.

Thanks to that, from 1990 until now, there have been nearly 30 children who have grown up from this loving home. Among them, those with good academic performance have graduated from university, some have graduated from vocational school and all have stable jobs. During holidays and Tet, the grown-up children all return to live with the center's community.

During her visit to the Hanoi Parish Orphanage Center to give gifts, Vice President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of the province, Luu Thi Ha, acknowledged the efforts of Sister Bui Thi Hong Hanh and the nuns at the center in taking care of disadvantaged children; at the same time, building and connecting the community's cooperation to effectively carry out the center's activities.

In addition, Sister Bui Thi Hong Hanh and the center also organize supplementary classes for children who sell lottery tickets, children who follow their parents to Dong Nai to work, etc. who do not have the conditions to go to primary school. The center also supports textbooks and notebooks for children studying here. To ensure the quality of the classes, the center invites teachers from some neighboring schools to teach, and these teachers only receive symbolic support.

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Source: https://baodongnai.com.vn/xa-hoi/202510/nu-tu-mang-yeu-thuong-den-tre-mo-coi-08f16f8/