When I Got Here
When I Got Here
Literacy Achieves
Mylinh (Vietnam): Resilient, Resourceful, Rejoicing
14 minutes Posted Mar 1, 2023 at 6:00 am.
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In 1979 Mylinh Luong left communist Vietnam with her father, mother, and four siblings in a crowded fishing boat. She was six years old. She vividly recalls the deprivation, squalor, and brutality of the journey and life in a Malaysian refugee camp. She knows what it is to be without resources, education, family, and friends. In the US, she experienced acts of kindness that helped her overcome the lack of these things. Now a successful businesswoman, she puts her...