Get abandoned babies some milk and clothes with DAI for Christmas in Vietnam
This year, my newlywed wife and I have had the great fortune of welcoming our first child into the world, a beautiful baby girl named Ava.
This September, we dove head first into the 24/7 care, love and attention that parents give to their babies as they require help feeding, sleeping, pooping, and feeling safe, and learned just how much energy goes into raising a healthy and well adjusted child.
Along the way, we heard stories about the many babies who are not so lucky, that get left behind at hospitals with no one to care for them. Sometimes when our daughter cries out after waking, looking for the comfort of her parents, and we think about all the babies who have no one to care closely for them.
Here in Vietnam, we were introduced to a country-wide network of volunteers who take in these babies and care for them. Sometimes these volunteers are only available for 2 weeks at a time, and are then passed around to different parts of the country based on their availability.
These babies are often left behind as newborns and don’t have any clothes, milk, diapers or other resources they need as a fast growing children. As our daughter has been quickly growing out of her clothes, we have been donating them along with extra breast milk, to folks in these networks who have been organizing resources for the babies.
Coming up on the end of the year, our company, Mosendo, has decided to help the caregivers get more of the resources they need, such as diapers, milk, and clean clothes and blankets.
We’ve already organized a clothing drive with some of the local families in Vietnam, with over 20 families contacting us to donate their old baby clothes.
Next up is finding some funds to purchase other consumables such as diapers, milk, baby formula and other resources needed by the orphanage.
Crypto gives back
At Mosendo, we’ve spent the better part of the last 2 years focused on building decentralized technologies.
Along the way we’ve come across more than our fair share of disagreements, greed, and fraud, which can make us all lose sight of the end goal of all of this — to make the world more equitable place.
Sometimes we need a quick win to remind us of why we are doing this, and being able to get high leverage on your resources to help those who start life with the ultimate of unfair positions is a great way to get that quick win on the longer road of building infrastructure.
While orphans in Vietnam don’t have many resources, the good news is that a little money goes a long way.
For instance:
- Bag of 76 Huggies diapers — $10.23
- 1kg powdered formula — $12.50
- 100 pack of wet wipes — $1.68
Mosendo will be contributing 250 DAI to buying resources to donate to the orphanage when we deliver the clothes on Dec. 22.
We welcome the rest of the crypto community to donate DAI as well, of which 100% will go towards purchasing goods to deliver to the orphanage. Mosendo will film and document the trip so you can see the results on the ground in Vietnam.
Donation address: xmas.mosendo.eth
0x969dEC1169A0377a1764bD4ee342f9f4CD196BA4
(Have a wallet with DAI but no ETH? Send with Gasless)
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays,
May you and your family have the good fortune of being together, sheltered, fed and clothed,
Tom and the Mosendo team.
PS. Want to donate but don’t have crypto? Get in touch by emailing tom@mosendo.com
