At 3 years old, Vinh and his family fled Vietnam in a small boat and were picked up by the Seasweep, an international rescue ship sailing after six days in the South China Sea. His family — ethnically Chinese — escaped the communist government’s persecution of ethnic minorities. Decades later, when Vinh and his wife went back to visit Vietnam, after hearing the stories from his family members who did not escape, he realized how truly blessed he was. In 2012 Vinh and his wife Leisle traveled to Cambodia to visit a trauma center for children rescued from trafficking, a cause they had regularly donated to. While it was hard, witnessing the trauma of these children and reliving his own, Vinh believes that to truly help someone, you need to have your heart broken.
“It was almost as if God was speaking to me at that moment when I was in Vietnam as if to say, ‘Vinh, have you done everything you can with what you have? Now that you can see with your own eyes and feel and touch this other world that could have been yours, what are your plans for the future?’” — Dr. Vinh Chung
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