The local team

• Viêt Nam Plus has 3 teams in Vietnam, each under the leadership of a director: Hùng for Dúc Linh, Hàng for Tánh Linh, and Thành for Bình Minh (closing) and Châu Thành. Recently a coordinator has joined us: mister Tôt. He is in charge of coordination, relations with the authorities, and works hard on the difficult task of setting up a local organization -which has been close to impossible in Vietnam till today.
• Each team is multidisciplinary: teachers, agronomists, veterinary doctors, para-medics etc. 6 senior members of Viêt Nam Plus constitute the Executive committee, which guarantees all important decisions are taken together and following a common line.
• Hàng is a medical assistant and is therefore also in charge of all medical programs. Thân is a veterinary doctor, he supervises all the agriculture and livestock programs. Hùng is in charge of the credit program and many others.
• Viêt Nam Plus considers the development and training of its local team as a top priority. Viêt Nam Plus has only one foreign representative in the country: Bernard KERVYN, who has been present since 1993 and who speaks fluent Vietnamese. His task is to facilitate the discussion on strategic issues, to train the team on certain matters, and to raise funds. His wife, Thanh, assists us as an unpaid volunteer, for the school health program and the patchwork handicrafts.

The local team has a difficult job. Read for instance Les petits filous de Tan Ha about the difficulties encountered sometimes with the credit program (28-06-2002, 81 Kb). Most documents, bulletins and stories report bout the activities of the team members.

A few members are presented below by alphabetical order:

	Name	Surname	Training, function	Years with VN+	Where
	Mr. Dang Hoang	Dê	Agronomist& Micro-finance.	2	Dúc Linh & soon in Châu Thành
	Mrs. Dinh Thi	Lý	Social work, Micro-finance, relations with the authorities, member of Executive Committee.	10	Dúc Linh
	Mr. Dinh Xuân	Hùng	Micro-finance, Director of the Dúc Linh program.	9	Dúc Linh
	Mr. Duong Van	Dung	Health education at school.	2	Dúc Linh
	Mrs. Lê Yên	Hàng	Health, Micro-finance, theater. Member of Executive Committee. Director for Tánh Linh.	8	Tánh Linh
	Mr. Nguyên Truong	Giang	Theater.	4	Tánh Linh
	Mrs. Nguyên Huynh Thu	Huyên	Accountant.	2	Tánh Linh
	Mr. Nguyên Van	Thân	Veterinarian & Micro-finance. Member of Executive Committee.	6	Tánh Linh
	Mrs. Pham Hong	Hanh	Micro-finance.	4	Tánh Linh
	Mr. Tai Dai	Thành	Micro-finance. Executive member. Director of Bình Minh and Châu Thành programs.	6	Bình Minh & Châu Thành
	Mr. Tran Dúc Tuan	Hai	Micro-finance.	5	Dúc Linh
	Mr. Tran Quang Son	Tùng	Micro-finance and chief accountant.	3	Dúc Linh
	Mr. Tran Van	Tot	Vice-director.	1	Dúc Linh, Tánh Linh, Châu Thành