Thang, age thirty-five, is married and has two daughters, aged 7 and 2. His wife, age thirty, and he, along with their children live in Thang’s family home in Huang…
Duong, age twenty-three, grew up in a farming family living in Ha Tinh province, about 30 kilometers from the Laotian border. His mother, age 49, and father, age 50, farm…
Lệ, 22 years old, was raised in a family of five. Her father, age 45 and totally blind, runs a small variety store out of their home in Lãng Ngâm…
Trung, barely twenty-three years old, was born in the coastal province of Thang Hoa, about two hundred kilometers southeast of Hanoi. Both his father, age fifty and his mother, fifty-one…
Trang, twenty-four years old and visually impaired, is the youngest child in her family. Both of her parents are fifty-four years old. Her father is a sailor working on a…
Hoa, just turned seventeen, was born in Bac Ninh province where her parents and younger brother still live. Both her father, age 39, and her mother, age 35, are farmers.…
Hang, age thirty-eight, is from Nghe An Province, one of four children. Her father died in a traffic accident twenty years ago, in 2000. He and her mother, age seventy-five,…
Thanh, age twenty-two, was born into a farming family like many of our therapists. Her father, age fifty, continues farming to this day but Thanh lost her mother to kidney…
An, age 20, is the only son of a single mom. He was raised by his mother, a shop owner in Ha Nam province, just outside of Hanoi.
An was…
Hai Anh, twenty-nine and still single, is from Hanoi and has completed his high school studies at Complementary of Military university of Culture and Arts in Hanoi. He is one…
Manh, who is twenty-six years old at the time of this writing, was born and raised in Hanoi in a family of four. His mother and father are both rice…
Hiep is twenty-four years old and was born in Hanoi. He describes his father as a “freelancer”, working a wide variety of jobs, depending on where there is a need…
