Dear all,

Abbot Thich Phuoc Tan of Quang Minh Pagoda, and Mr Nguyen Quang Duy president of VCA of Vic.  on behalf of the Vietnamese Community of Victoria, presented a cheque of 580,000 dollars to the Premier. Jacinta Allan., Dr Daniel Mulino MP Federal Member for Fraser  representative for  the prime minister is Anthony Albanese.
In her response speech, the Premier praised Quang Minh Pagoda and the Vietnamese community for their great contributions to the Australian government over the past 50 years.
The new Footscray Hospital will be completed at the end this year 2025, at a cost of $1.5 billion with support from the Victorian Government.
 This is a modern hospital   and the largest health infrastructure investment in the state , the modern, huge and wonderful of building including large rooms for medical wards, Psychiatric rooms, Emergency room and all facilities for all patients in Victoria.
\The Western Health Foundation   has been working with the Venerable Thich Phuoc Tan and the Vietnamese community to fundraise for the new Footscray Hospital.
Located on the corner of Geelong and Ballarat Roads, the new Footscray Hospital will support the increasing demand from Melbourne’s booming western suburbs,
 Building a bigger and better Footscray Hospital will help  with total 500 beds  and help  to  treat about 20,000  people for emergency department each year.
 Over the fifty years of our community. The Vietnamese community has been  successful to contribute charity to Australia   such as raising funds for Royal children Hospital half million dollars , Cairnlea Nursing home 800,000 dollars Sunshine Hospital $300,000 for Joan Kirner Hospital $300,000 , Bushes fire half million dollars  then  prepared masks for Western Victoria $200,000 during the Covid 19 pandemic,

Over the past 5 months Fund raising for the New Foostcray hospital ,  of the total amount of donations has increased day by day has now reached over half a million dollars, of which Mission Possible has broken the record with $531,206 
Thank you all media Thank you Mr. Frank Cheng  for giving  2 parties for free ,and  thousands Vietnamese with good hearts
There are many good examples and stories  to tell, from the youth  to  elderly persons   save money by putting in piggy bank every day then  performing donation .
This is a very big campaign, the Board of Directors of Western Health Foundation Hospital  announced to the all communities, the Vietnamese community will be honored to be the pioneers in this campaign,
The federal  and state Victoria  Government   have given 16 million dollars to build the first Vietnamese museum in Sunshine in Australia.

This is a good opportunity for Vietnamese people to demonstrate our generosity to the Australian Government and this is a great honour for our Vietnamese community.
Our ancestors said "When eating fruit, we always  remember who plant the tree, and when drinking water, we remember the source"

We would like to say thank you from our bottom of our heart All Vietnamese community contributing for this event.
 Thank again with your all good hearts to come here  to support this full meaning charity , this is our way of repaying the kindness and good treatment  from the Australian Citizens and Government over the fifty years for  our community, we would like to send our best wishes for happiness, longevity, health ,prosperity and longevity to everyone in lunar new year YEAR OF SNAKE.

Doctor Phuc Nhan Pham