2014-2015: Our Humble Beginning

Jolly Hands has its humble beginning in 2014 simply as a personal endeavor founded by Khai Doanh and Patrick, a team of sister and brother respectively aged eight and five at the time.

Upon hearing stories told by their parents and a family friend, the sibling duo learned that there were many children in Vietnam who were unable to purchase essential necessities for everyday life due to their low-income backgrounds. Khai Doanh and Patrick were moved especially by the fact that these children didn’t have enough clothes to wear. They were at the developmental stage of growing taller and eventually being too big to fit their clothes. Consequently, the lack of clothing left these children cold during the winter months.

Immediately the sibling set out to collect gently used clothes from the people around them, and donated them to a group of children living in the poor mountainous areas of Northern Vietnam. In 2015, another successful drive of collecting gently used clothes and donating them was completed.

For both years, our team of partners, led by Hong Anh Tran, helped deliver our donations to the children of a few regions in Vietnam: Suoi Ton, Cam Thuy, Thanh Hoa; and the warm jackets were delivered to children of H’Mong minority group.