Children of Vietnam to benefit from event
Published: Wed, Feb. 06, 2008 12:30AM
Modified Wed, Feb. 06, 2008 03:48AM
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closeCHAPEL HILL -- The Youth Group of the Vietnamese American Association of Raleigh will perform the dragon dance, a traditional acrobatic Vietnamese New Year dance, during a Tet celebration and fundraiser at A Southern Season at University Mall on Saturday.
The event is being coordinated by Children of Vietnam, a North Carolina not-for-profit charity. Dances will begin at noon and 1 and 2 p.m.
The goal of the event is to raise public awareness and $3,000 for milk and food for orphans and street children in central Vietnam. The celebration also includes demonstrations of Vietnamese cooking, a raffle for an original framed Vietnamese painting and the sale of Vietnamese lunch boxes. Information about Children of Vietnam will be on display.
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Tet Nguyen Dan is a Vietnamese festival beginning on the first day of the first lunar month. It marks the beginning of the lunar new year and the arrival of spring.
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