{ "title": "Happy Smiles", "updated": "18 October 2026", "chapters": [ { "year": 2022, "title": "A name carried forward.", "summary": "A family tradition became a small fund, with friends promising to keep showing up.", "featured": "a-name-carried-forward", "note": "The organizer dates this chapter of the fund to 2022. Her family's earlier history is a personal recollection, not part of the available financial records." }, { "year": 2023, "title": "The circle grew wider.", "summary": "Meals remained a steady thread. Schooling, mobility, and urgent medical needs found a place beside them.", "featured": "room-for-a-future", "note": "These are dated allocation records. They are not a complete inventory of the year's activities." }, { "year": 2024, "title": "Care that stays.", "summary": "Some needs return month after month. The records make room for treatment, livelihoods, and the ordinary work of continuing.", "featured": "beyond-the-kitchen", "note": "Worksheet dates are report dates; exact delivery dates and outcomes are not established for these older entries." }, { "year": 2025, "title": "The everyday matters.", "summary": "A school day. A way to earn. Another journey for treatment. Practical needs continued to shape the support.", "featured": "school-days", "note": "Historical workbook records and the available late-2025 bank statement are different evidence sets; their totals are not combined." }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Still here. Still together.", "summary": "The story becomes visible in shared meals, family memories, and a new round of support for medical care.", "featured": "a-place-at-the-table", "note": "The October meal transfers fund future service; the May photographs do not document those meals." } ], "events": [ { "id": "a-name-carried-forward", "year": 2022, "date": "2022-03-06", "when": "6 March 2022", "dateKind": "Original post date", "title": "A name carried forward", "short": "Happy Smiles was a family name before it became this small fund.", "category": [ "Community" ], "initiative": "Family tradition", "place": "Not specified", "kind": "narrative", "status": "Documented memory", "importance": "turning-point", "image": "march-2022", "intro": "In her first documented 2022 update, Phuong Uyen describes keeping the Happy Smiles name used by her parents. Friends and family had begun contributing, and some promised to return each month.", "why": "The beginning is about continuity: carrying a familiar act of care into another generation.", "outcome": "The attached March list records eight contributions totaling 3,000,000 VND. The post separately reports 15,050,000 VND contributed to that point. These are overlapping snapshots and are not added together.", "people": "The organizer, her parents, friends, and recurring supporters. Their roles come from the original post; no formal volunteer roster is available.", "limits": "The organizer recalls thirty years of her parents' volunteering. This is not a claim that the current fund, bank account, or financial dataset spans thirty years.", "sources": [ "origin", "march2022" ], "record": { "title": "March 2022", "lines": [ [ "Published contribution list", "3,000,000 VND" ], [ "Listed contributions", "8" ], [ "A record, not a lifetime total", "6 March 2022" ] ] } }, { "id": "written-down", "year": 2022, "date": "2022-11-11", "when": "11 November 2022", "dateKind": "Workbook report date", "title": "The habit of keeping a record", "short": "Meals, porridge, and individual help appear in the same small ledger.", "category": [ "Meals", "Community" ], "initiative": "Community support", "place": "Not specified", "kind": "verified", "status": "Recorded allocation", "importance": "continuity", "intro": "A worksheet named Copy of Oct is dated 11 November 2022. It records meals and porridge alongside help for bà Lai and support for a person earning a living by selling lottery tickets.", "why": "Care was already broader than a single meal. Keeping the contributions and their intended uses together also made the work traceable.", "outcome": "The allocation categories are verified in the supplied workbook. They do not independently establish delivery or a beneficiary count.", "people": "Contributors are recorded in the private workbook; individual donor rows are not republished here.", "limits": "The worksheet name and its actual date differ. The date in cell B3, Excel serial 44876, is used rather than guessing from the tab name.", "sources": [ "workbook" ], "sheet": "Copy of Oct", "cells": [ "B3", "D3", "E3", "G3", "H3" ] }, { "id": "mobility", "year": 2023, "date": "2023-02-10", "when": "10 February 2023", "dateKind": "Workbook report date", "title": "A way to keep earning", "short": "A wheelchair appears beside meal and hospital support.", "category": [ "Livelihoods", "Medical care" ], "initiative": "Community support", "place": "Not specified", "kind": "verified", "status": "Recorded allocation", "importance": "continuity", "intro": "The February-dated worksheet includes Case 42: a wheelchair to help chú Thu continue selling lottery tickets, alongside medical assistance and community meals.", "why": "Mobility is part of everyday independence. The record shows attention to how people make a living, as well as immediate illness.", "outcome": "A wheelchair-support allocation is documented. Delivery, long-term income, and medical outcomes have not been independently verified.", "people": "The organizer and contributors recorded in the private allocation sheet.", "limits": "This describes the recorded purpose, not an independently measured change in income.", "sources": [ "workbook" ], "sheet": "Copy of Jan", "cells": [ "B3", "F3", "G3", "H3" ] }, { "id": "room-for-a-future", "year": 2023, "date": "2023-07-16", "when": "16 July 2023", "dateKind": "Workbook report date", "title": "Room for a child's future", "short": "Books and tuition joined meals in the record of care.", "category": [ "Education", "Meals" ], "initiative": "Nụ Cười 3", "place": "Not specified", "kind": "verified", "status": "Recorded allocation", "importance": "turning-point", "intro": "The July 2023 sheet names the Nụ Cười 3 project, with meals, tuition, and books for children in difficulty. Medical cases remain listed beside it.", "why": "Support could look beyond today's meal to the costs that allow a child to keep learning.", "outcome": "The purpose is explicitly recorded in cell F3. No verified student count, school-completion result, or delivery date is available.", "people": "Contributors and a named project in the allocation record. Individual children's identities are not reproduced.", "limits": "The report date is not treated as the date books or tuition were delivered.", "sources": [ "workbook" ], "sheet": "July 23", "cells": [ "B3", "D3", "F3", "G3", "H3" ], "record": { "title": "16 July 2023", "lines": [ [ "Nụ Cười 3", "Meals, tuition, books" ], [ "Alongside", "Medical support" ], [ "Evidence", "July 23 · cell F3" ] ] } }, { "id": "connections", "year": 2023, "date": "2023-12-20", "when": "20 December 2023", "dateKind": "Workbook report date", "title": "Keeping people connected", "short": "The year-end record also names a family-reunification program.", "category": [ "Community" ], "initiative": "Community support", "place": "Not specified", "kind": "verified", "status": "Recorded allocation", "importance": "continuity", "intro": "The December sheet records support for Như Chưa Hề Có Cuộc Chia Ly, alongside two meal categories and individual medical needs.", "why": "The range of recorded support reflects concern for connection as well as immediate material needs.", "outcome": "The named allocation is verified. No reunion is attributed to Happy Smiles without a supporting record.", "people": "Supporters recorded in the private workbook.", "limits": "No causal outcome or count of reunited families is claimed.", "sources": [ "workbook" ], "sheet": "Dec 23", "cells": [ "B3", "D3", "E3", "F3" ] }, { "id": "beyond-the-kitchen", "year": 2024, "date": "2024-01-18", "when": "18 January 2024", "dateKind": "Workbook report date", "title": "Care beyond the kitchen", "short": "A wheelchair and emergency treatment sat beside the shared meals.", "category": [ "Meals", "Livelihoods", "Medical care" ], "initiative": "Community support", "place": "Not specified", "kind": "verified", "status": "Recorded allocation", "importance": "turning-point", "intro": "The January 2024 record includes two meal allocations, a wheelchair for anh Vững, and emergency assistance for bác Tâm, who collected recyclable materials for a living.", "why": "The same fund could respond to different kinds of hardship, without reducing care to a single program.", "outcome": "The four purposes are documented in the dated worksheet. Delivery and individual recovery outcomes are not established by that sheet alone.", "people": "The private workbook records the contributors; names of beneficiaries are kept to the original record's limited forms.", "limits": "Financial allocations are not presented as proof of medical recovery or improved livelihoods.", "sources": [ "workbook" ], "sheet": "Jan 24", "cells": [ "B3", "D3", "E3", "F3", "G3" ], "record": { "title": "18 January 2024", "lines": [ [ "The shared table", "Two meal allocations" ], [ "A way to earn", "Wheelchair support" ], [ "An urgent need", "Emergency assistance" ] ] } }, { "id": "ongoing-treatment", "year": 2024, "date": "2024-11-30", "when": "30 November 2024", "dateKind": "Workbook report date", "title": "Treatment does not end after one visit", "short": "Dialysis and recurring medical needs are visible in the ledger.", "category": [ "Medical care" ], "initiative": "Medical support", "place": "Not specified", "kind": "verified", "status": "Recorded allocation", "importance": "continuity", "intro": "The November record includes dialysis support and several family medical situations. Other 2024 records also name repeated treatment needs.", "why": "Some forms of care require returning. A single transfer cannot stand in for a person's whole treatment journey.", "outcome": "Recurring medical-support categories are documented. Treatment continuity and recovery are not independently measured here.", "people": "Supporters and people described in the organizer's private records.", "limits": "A recipient's long history of treatment must not be confused with years of Happy Smiles support.", "sources": [ "workbook" ], "sheet": "November 24", "cells": [ "B3", "J3" ] }, { "id": "returning", "year": 2025, "date": "2025-03-08", "when": "8 March 2025", "dateKind": "Workbook report date", "title": "Returning, again and again", "short": "Hospital fees and dialysis appear across another reporting cycle.", "category": [ "Medical care" ], "initiative": "Medical support", "place": "Not specified", "kind": "verified", "status": "Recorded allocation", "importance": "continuity", "intro": "The February and March record names medical cases 654–657 and dialysis cases 25–28, together with meal support.", "why": "The repetition of practical needs is part of this history. The records show continued attention, not only occasional headline events.", "outcome": "Named support purposes are documented. Case numbers identify different program series and are not added up as unique people.", "people": "Contributors and cases recorded in the workbook.", "limits": "No lifetime patient count is derived from the numbering of cases.", "sources": [ "workbook" ], "sheet": "Feb & Mar 25", "cells": [ "B3", "G3", "H3", "I3", "J3", "K3", "L3", "M3", "N3" ] }, { "id": "school-days", "year": 2025, "date": "2025-09-21", "when": "21 September 2025", "dateKind": "Workbook report date", "title": "The everyday matters", "short": "A milk allocation for M'Nong primary-school children joins the record.", "category": [ "Education" ], "initiative": "School support", "place": "Not specified", "kind": "verified", "status": "Recorded allocation", "importance": "turning-point", "intro": "The September 2025 sheet records 150 multipacks of milk for M'Nong primary-school children, alongside meals and six medical-support categories.", "why": "The story includes ordinary school-day needs, as well as urgent hospital bills.", "outcome": "The quantity and intended use are recorded in cell F3. It is 150 multipacks, not 150 children, and is not a verified delivery count.", "people": "Students are described collectively; no personal profiles are inferred.", "limits": "The school location, delivery date, and recipient count remain unverified.", "sources": [ "workbook" ], "sheet": "September 25", "cells": [ "B3", "D3", "E3", "F3" ], "record": { "title": "21 September 2025", "lines": [ [ "Recorded purpose", "Milk for schoolchildren" ], [ "Quantity in the record", "150 multipacks" ], [ "Not established", "Delivery / pupil count" ] ] } }, { "id": "family-memory", "year": 2026, "date": "2026-03-07", "when": "7 March 2026", "dateKind": "Post date; original photo undated", "title": "Kindness runs in the family", "short": "A family album and the hope that another generation will carry it on.", "category": [ "Community" ], "initiative": "Family tradition", "place": "Not specified", "kind": "narrative", "status": "Documented memory", "importance": "continuity", "image": "family-album", "intro": "In a March 2026 post, the organizer describes volunteering as a family tradition across two-and-a-half generations, and hopes her child will become the third generation of Happy Smiles.", "why": "The dedication has a human scale: a practice learned in a family, shared with friends, and carried into everyday life.", "outcome": "The post and archived photographs document a personal memory and an aspiration, not a measurable beneficiary outcome.", "people": "The organizer's family. Identities in the older group photograph are not assigned without confirmation.", "limits": "The original group photograph's capture date is unknown. The 2026 label is the date of the post, not the photograph.", "sources": [ "family2026" ] }, { "id": "a-place-at-the-table", "year": 2026, "date": "2026-05-22", "when": "17 April – 22 May 2026", "dateKind": "Three reported service dates", "title": "A place at the table", "short": "1,071 meal portions across three days of shared work.", "category": [ "Meals" ], "initiative": "Nụ Cười 9", "place": "Ho Chi Minh City", "kind": "verified", "status": "Reported activity", "importance": "turning-point", "image": "serving", "gallery": [ "serving", "sharing", "classroom", "outside" ], "intro": "At Quán Cơm Nụ Cười 9, Happy Smiles supported three meal events. The organizer reported 358 portions on 17 April, 500 on 15 May, and 213 on 22 May.", "why": "Lottery sellers, drivers, recycling collectors, construction workers, older neighbors, and students were among those described in the update. Some meals reached people unable to come to the kitchen.", "outcome": "358 + 500 + 213 = 1,071 portions. Of these, 713 belong to the two May dates. Portions are not unique people, and the source describes low-cost meals rather than every meal being free.", "people": "Kitchen volunteers, Happy Smiles contributors, and local communities, as described in the source post.", "limits": "The count is the organizer's published activity report. Recipient-level records and independent verification are not available.", "sources": [ "meals2026" ], "record": { "title": "Three days at Nụ Cười 9", "lines": [ [ "17 April 2026", "358 portions" ], [ "15 May 2026", "500 portions" ], [ "22 May 2026", "213 portions" ] ] } }, { "id": "milk2026", "year": 2026, "date": "2026-05-28", "when": "24 and 28 May 2026", "dateKind": "School letter and separate bank payment", "title": "Something for the school day", "short": "200 cartons acknowledged by a school letter, with a separate 951,200 VND payment.", "category": [ "Education" ], "initiative": "School support", "place": "Lam Dong", "kind": "verified", "status": "Payment and acknowledgment verified", "importance": "continuity", "image": "school-letter", "intro": "A letter dated 24 May from Lạc Lâm Primary School thanks Happy Smiles for 200 cartons of milk. It describes the Tiếp sức đến trường program for 200 pupils across Lạc Lâm and Thạnh Mỹ primary schools in Lâm Đồng. A separate bank payment of 951,200 VND on 28 May carries the memo 200 hop sua.", "why": "Care also reaches beyond the kitchen and hospital, into ordinary school-day needs.", "outcome": "The school acknowledges 200 cartons, and the bank verifies the separate payment. The letter mentions 200 pupils in the program; this is an institution-reported figure, not an independently audited count of unique recipients.", "people": "Students at Lạc Lâm are described collectively. Personal school and student details are not transcribed.", "limits": "The exact delivery date and recipient-level attendance remain unverified. The letter date and payment date are different kinds of evidence, not competing delivery dates.", "sources": [ "school-letter", "ledger", "meals2026" ] }, { "id": "august-support", "year": 2026, "date": "2026-08-07", "when": "4 June – 7 August 2026", "dateKind": "Transfer dates in the August report", "title": "From a shared table to medical care", "short": "A 19.5 million VND support cycle across meals and medical needs.", "category": [ "Meals", "Medical care" ], "initiative": "Medical support", "place": "Not specified", "kind": "verified", "status": "Transfers verified", "importance": "continuity", "intro": "The August update includes 12,000,000 VND for two meal-funding transfers, seven medical or dialysis transfers of 1,000,000 VND, and 500,000 VND for Minh and Trinh.", "why": "The report brings different needs together without reducing the work to meals alone.", "outcome": "The ten transfers total 19,500,000 VND: 500,000 on 4 June and 19,000,000 on 7 August. This is one reporting cycle, not an August-calendar-month spending total.", "people": "Contributors to the reporting cycle and the named support purposes in the bank memos.", "limits": "No number of meals served, unique recipients, or clinical outcome is inferred from these transfers.", "sources": [ "ledger" ] }, { "id": "october-meals", "year": 2026, "date": "2026-10-18", "when": "18 October 2026, 22:31–22:33", "dateKind": "Bank transfer times", "title": "The next meals are funded", "short": "Three transfers of 6 million VND, ready for the next shared tables.", "category": [ "Meals" ], "initiative": "Meal funding", "place": "Not specified", "kind": "verified", "status": "Funded; service dates unconfirmed", "importance": "continuity", "intro": "Three consecutive transfers, each for 6,000,000 VND, are labeled as meal support in the public account.", "why": "The continuity is visible before the photographs arrive: supporters have put money behind another round of meals.", "outcome": "18,000,000 VND transferred for three meal events. Service dates, portion counts, and delivery confirmation have not yet been documented.", "people": "Supporters of the latest reporting cycle. The specific serving teams are not confirmed in these bank entries.", "limits": "Funded does not mean already served. No older photograph is presented as an October meal event.", "sources": [ "ledger", "october" ] }, { "id": "october-medical", "year": 2026, "date": "2026-10-18", "when": "18 October 2026, 22:34–22:37", "dateKind": "Bank transfer times", "title": "Six medical needs, six acts of support", "short": "One million VND each for six Quỹ Bông Sen medical appeals.", "category": [ "Medical care" ], "initiative": "Medical support", "place": "Not specified", "kind": "verified", "status": "Transfers verified", "importance": "turning-point", "intro": "Six individual transfers support Quỹ Bông Sen cases 813, 814, 815, 816, 818, and 820, each for 1,000,000 VND.", "why": "A hospital bill can strain a whole household. These contributions support treatment costs without claiming to resolve the family's entire situation.", "outcome": "6,000,000 VND in medical-support transfers. The bank records establish the amounts; the original case pages explain the needs. Clinical outcomes are not verified here.", "people": "The six appeals and contributors to the latest cycle. Only initials already used in the original pages are retained.", "limits": "Case-page fundraising targets and totals are not amounts raised by Happy Smiles. Case IDs are not a lifetime patient count.", "sources": [ "ledger", "october" ], "caseIds": [ 813, 814, 815, 816, 818, 820 ] } ], "memories": [ { "id": "march-2022", "src": "assets/march-2022.jpg", "thumb": "assets/march-2022.jpg", "year": 2022, "category": "Records", "title": "The first pages of this chapter", "date": "Published 6 March 2022", "alt": "Original black-background March 2022 Happy Smiles contribution list, totaling 3,000,000 VND.", "caption": "Eight contributions in an original March 2022 list. This is a period snapshot, not the fund's lifetime total.", "sourceId": "march2022", "fit": "contain" }, { "id": "serving", "src": "assets/volunteers-serving.webp", "thumb": "assets/volunteers-serving.webp", "year": 2026, "category": "Meals", "title": "The work behind a shared meal", "date": "22 May 2026", "alt": "Volunteers in blue shirts serving boxed meals at Nụ Cười 9; the menu board names Happy Smiles and is dated 22 May 2026.", "caption": "The menu board names Happy Smiles. A moment at Quán Cơm Nụ Cười 9, from the three-event meal update.", "sourceId": "meals2026" }, { "id": "sharing", "src": "assets/handing-meal.webp", "thumb": "assets/handing-meal.webp", "year": 2026, "category": "Meals", "title": "A meal, shared on the street", "date": "From the May 2026 post; exact capture date unconfirmed", "alt": "A volunteer hands a boxed meal to an older man standing beside his bicycle on a Ho Chi Minh City sidewalk.", "caption": "A photograph from the May activity update. The precise capture date is not independently established.", "sourceId": "meals2026" }, { "id": "classroom", "src": "assets/classroom-eating.webp", "thumb": "assets/classroom-eating.webp", "year": 2026, "category": "Education", "title": "Around the classroom tables", "date": "From the May 2026 post; exact capture date unconfirmed", "alt": "Students in red uniforms eating together at tables in a classroom.", "caption": "The source post includes students from the Vĩnh Hội charity class among the communities reached. Individual children are not identified.", "sourceId": "meals2026" }, { "id": "outside", "src": "assets/waiting-outside.webp", "thumb": "assets/waiting-outside.webp", "year": 2026, "category": "Meals", "title": "Neighbors at the kitchen", "date": "From the May 2026 post; exact capture date unconfirmed", "alt": "People gathered outside the community meal shop on a city sidewalk.", "caption": "An ordinary part of the meal-day record. No unique-person count is inferred from the photograph.", "sourceId": "meals2026" }, { "id": "family-album", "src": "assets/legacy-group.webp", "thumb": "assets/legacy-group.webp", "year": null, "category": "Family", "title": "Before this chapter", "date": "Original photograph undated; shared 7 March 2026", "alt": "A printed family-album photograph showing a group of adults and children during an earlier social-work visit.", "caption": "A family memory shared in the organizer's March 2026 post. The original date, location, and individual identities remain unconfirmed; it is not labeled a 2022 event.", "sourceId": "family2026" }, { "id": "school-letter", "src": "assets/lac-lam-thank-you.jpg", "thumb": "assets/lac-lam-thank-you.jpg", "year": 2026, "category": "Records", "title": "A note from Lạc Lâm", "date": "School letter dated 24 May 2026", "alt": "A photographed thank-you letter from Lạc Lâm school included in the Happy Smiles May 2026 archive.", "caption": "The school acknowledges 200 cartons for a program described as serving 200 pupils across Lạc Lâm and Thạnh Mỹ schools. The full document is preserved; the separate bank payment is dated 28 May.", "sourceId": "school-letter", "fit": "contain" } ], "cases": [ { "id": 813, "title": "Supporting cô T. through treatment", "summary": "An older construction worker facing cancer and treatment costs.", "amount": 1000000, "url": "https://quybongsen.org/du-an/ky-813-cung-co-t-vuot-qua-nhung-ngay-kho/" }, { "id": 814, "title": "Care after a serious road accident", "summary": "A young man's family facing repeated operations and hospital bills.", "amount": 1000000, "url": "https://quybongsen.org/du-an/ky-814-gap-tai-nan-nghiem-trong-tren-duong-di-tham-nguoi-than-gia-dinh-tung-quan-vi-vien-phi/" }, { "id": 815, "title": "A family taking turns to care for their mother", "summary": "Adult children missing work in shifts as their mother receives treatment.", "amount": 1000000, "url": "https://quybongsen.org/du-an/ky-815-me-benh-nang-cac-con-thay-nhau-nghi-viec-de-cham-soc/" }, { "id": 816, "title": "A child's heart treatment", "summary": "Young working parents facing the costs of their child's heart surgery.", "amount": 1000000, "url": "https://quybongsen.org/du-an/ky-816-cha-me-tre-kiet-que-vi-chi-phi-dieu-tri-benh-tim-cua-con/" }, { "id": 818, "title": "Treatment costs after an amputation", "summary": "Hospital fees remain a burden following diabetes-related complications.", "amount": 1000000, "url": "https://quybongsen.org/du-an/ky-818-benh-tat-lay-di-mot-phan-co-the-vien-phi-lai-tro-thanh-ganh-nang/" }, { "id": 820, "title": "Helping a father return to surgery", "summary": "A postponed operation while his wife works to support their two children.", "amount": 1000000, "url": "https://quybongsen.org/du-an/ky-820-chong-hoan-phau-thuat-vi-kho-khan-vo-gang-suc-lo-hai-con-an-hoc/" } ] }