She is Pham Le Ha, a member of the Women’s Union of Vinh Hoa commune in Phu Giao district. According to her, there are a lot of happy things in life, but she feels happiest when offering help to needy people.

Pham Thi Ha (photo) is well-known as an outstanding donor in Phu Giao district’s Vinh Hoa commune. In recent years, she has spent tens of millions of dong on building compassion house for needy women.

Ha now owns 5 hectares of rubber trees. She has also opened a fashion shop for her daughter and a bookstore for her son. To date, her children have grown up and are very dutiful to her, so she feels secured to enjoy a happy life in her spacious house.

Ha said that she experienced difficulties to gain the current happiness. At the age of 19, she married, but had an unhappy family life. He husband left with all assets when she was at the age of 24.

With her own energy, Ha overcome all difficulties to bring up her children from a small grocery store. She has so far developed a rubber garden of 5 hectares with the annual income of VND200mln. Noticeably, she spends between VND15mln and VND30mln on building houses of compassion for needy women every year.

In 2012 alone, she has contributed VND30mln to building a house of compassion for Nguyen Thi The in Kinh Nhuong hamlet. She has also just raised VND20mln for the communal War Veterans’ Society to build a house for a needy member…

Reported by N.Nhu-Translated by K.T