Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 10:47 am
What started as a chance meeting by Wainui Beach School
(WBS) ex-Board of Trustees Chair Ailsa Cuthbert in Vietnam
has led to the establishment of the WBS endowment fund at
Sunrise.
Ailsa, who travels to Vietnam regularly for
work, met Hien Nguyen in a shop next to her office in Ho Chi
Minh City. Hien not only sells bags but teaches other women
how to make them, which they do mainly at home at night, as
a second income when their children are asleep.
Ailsa
says she popped in to look at the brightly coloured bags and