2030 club ready for second charity-business caravan tour

The 2030 Businessmen Club will organize a second caravan tour featuring charity, business and holiday activities for its members and other clubs from May 24 to 27.

Nguyen Hoai Nam, chairman of the club, a member of the Saigon Times Club, told reporters in HCMC yesterday some 100 business people would travel on 40 cars through more than 1,000 kilometers from Vietnam to Cambodia.

The tour will start in HCMC and take in Moc Bai Border Gate in Tay Ninh Province of Vietnam, and Phnom Penh on the first day. The participants will visit the Royal Palace and other tourist attractions in the Cambodian capital before meeting the Vietnamese business community in Cambodia at the premises of the Vietnamese embassy.

The meeting is for participants to build links and explore business opportunities through their counterparts in Cambodia.

The business people will present scholarships, books, instant noodle, clothes and other necessities of life to poor Vietnamese students of the first and third graders on Ton Le Sap lake in Siem Reap. They will donate some VND30 million as teaching fees over two years to the teachers who help the poor pupils.

Visits to Angkor Wat and other places of interest in Cambodia are part of the caravan tour, which the 2030 Businessmen Club is organizing in collaboration with VYC Travel and advertising firm HTC.

Nam said the club was taking registrations from business people to participate in the tour, and calling for the business community to make donations in cash or kind for the poor the club will help during their trip in Cambodia.

Saigon Times Club manager Quoc Vinh said the 2030 club organized the first Vietnam-Cambodia caravan tour after the success of the caravan tour through Binh Phuoc, Dak Nong and Daklak provinces last year.

Participating business people of last year’s caravan tour donated 300 gifts and 25 wheelchairs to the needy in the provinces. Accompanying doctors and nurses also examined 200 patients and donated medicines.

Vinh said the caravan tour and the futsal tournament were among the annual activities the 2030 Businessmen Club held to benefit its members and the community.

The 2030 club, which was established in 2002, now has more than 200 members. The club and Saigon Times Group have successfully hosted futsal tournaments for companies and organizations, special events for the club’s members to share business and entertainment experiences, and charity events to collect money for Orange Agent and natural disaster victims and poor yet industrious students.

Source: Saigon Times Daily