On October 24th, the Illinois Vietnamese Student Union in Chicago presented the 2009 NSDD Beauty Pageant! Seventeen beautiful contestants participated in this year’s event. One of the contests was to elect Miss Philanthropy, an award given to the contestant who raised the most funds for a charity organization. Loving House Project was honored to be the beneficiary of this year’s fund raising effort. Together, they raised enough funds to build 3 Loving Houses!

LHP is very grateful to our friends Kim Nguyen, Chi Nguyen (President of IVSU), Jennifer Thu Thao Tran and all the IVSU staff, for their trust in our project. Special thanks to each one of the graceful contestants for their hard work and support to our cause.

Congratulations to Cindy Nguyen, who was crowned Miss Philanthropy 2009!