TABLE FOR TWO
VIETNAM
FOR A HEALTHY VIETNAM

TABLE FOR TWO Vietnam (TFT VN) is a team of self-motivated volunteers, who are currently
either holding full-time job or attending full-time program at university. The team was brought
together as each member feels the need to contribute to the society, create positive changes
and make Vietnam a better place to live. We are inspired by our desire to help less fortunate
children have more nutritious foods to live healthy lives and be encouraged to attend primary
school at the same time. Simultaneously, the team is on a mission to promote healthy foods
and lives in Vietnam, by guiding and working with restaurants, corporate cafeterias and with
school canteens to offer consumers healthy meals.
INTRODUCTION
TABLE FOR TWO VIETNAM

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Get to Know Why TFT VN Exists
What Vision We Have
And What Values We Hold
Mission
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Fighting Child Hunger and
Malnutrition
For a Healthy Vietnam
Causes
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Meet the team behind the
scene
Team
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Meet Hoa
A Story
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Nutrition for Children in Van
Ho Commune, Son La Province
Project
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How Do We Finance
Our 2016 Funding Target
Finance
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Meet Who Are Supporting Us
Partners
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Get Involved
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Thank You
10
Founded in April 2013
History
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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The mission of TFTVN is to help
Vietnamese – children and
adults – live healthy lives.
Our ultimate goals are
(1) to have all our children in
Vietnam be served with
nutritious lunch meals while
they are going to
kindergartens; and at the
same time
(2) to instill healthy eating habits
in Vietnamese people.
(1) Integrity: be honest and
reliable!
(2) Collaboration
(3) Leadership: take leadership
not just only when you can but
also when others can’t!
(4) Impact: focus our human and
financial resources on where
we can make visible and
lasting impact!
(5) Passion
MISSION VISION VALUE
OUR MISSION

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TABLE FOR TWO International
On our planet of around seven billion people, one billion suffer
from hunger while another billion suffer from obesity and lifestyle-
related diseases. This global dichotomy – where people are dying
of hunger while others are literally eating themselves to death – is
both ironic and alarming. It represents the world today – the one
that we need to redesign.
TABLE FOR TWO International (TFTI) was founded in 2007 to
address these nutrition imbalances. TFTI is a Japanese NPO that
was initiated by and is an official affiliate of the World Economic
Forum’s Young Global Leaders. The organization helps restaurants,
canteens and corporate cafeterias design healthy and nutritious
meal menus while simultaneously raises funds per each menu sold
to help provide nutritious meals to less fortunate people in
developing countries suffering from hunger. By doing so, TFTI
simultaneously targets hunger in the developing world and obesity
in developed countries. Every time someone eats a healthy meal
at participating company cafeterias, restaurants and events,
US$0.25 is donated to fund a healthy school meal.
TABLE FOR TWO Vietnam
TABLE FOR TWO Vietnam (TFT VN), founded in April 2013, is a
team of self-motivated persons who are currently either holding
full-time jobs or attending full-time programs at universities. The
team was brought together as each member feels the need to
contribute to the society, create positive changes and make
Vietnam a better place to live.
Under the guidance of TFTI and with the help of a Vietnam-based
not-for-profit organization Center for Sustainable Development
Studies, TFT VN is tasked with tackling food consumption
imbalances in Vietnam.
TFT VN aims to right this imbalances by working with restaurants,
school canteens and corporate cafeteria to offer healthy meals
while simultaneously raising funds to be able to provide free
nutritious school meals to children at primary schools in poor
areas.
OUR HISTORY

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Life is much better for the 26 million Vietnamese children
nowadays than it was just two decades ago. Viet Nam’s population
is relatively young with 14.3 per cent of the total male and 13.4
per cent of the total female population under 16 years of age.
Most attend primary and secondary school; most have access to
adequate health care and can expect to live longer than their
parents.
But this impressive overall success conceals the fact that
disparities are widening between the rich and the poor, the Kinh
majority and ethnic minorities, and between urban and rural
areas. It is the girls and boys living in these persistent pockets of
poverty that must be reached as they lack of access to basic needs
such as education, health, shelter, social inclusion and protection.
About one third of all children below 16 years of age, or seven
million children, are considered poor. One third of children below
five are stunted as the result of chronic malnutrition. More than
one out of every three children is not fully immunized by the age
of five. Almost half of all children do not have access to a hygienic
sanitation facility in their home and two thirds of all children do
not have picture books to read.
According to the National Institute of Nutrition in 2013, about 26.7
per cent or 3.2 million of Vietnamese children under five years old
suffer from malnutrition while 16.2 per cent of whom are
underweight. Of the 3.2 million, more than 2 million suffer from
chronic malnutrition: their growth is stunted and their bones
undeveloped; the remainder have acute malnutrition, and are
underweight. The situation is worst for kids who are living in
mountainous and remote areas where more supports from
government and NGOs are urged.
TFT VN and the Center for Sustainable Development Studies (CSDS)
are working together to tackle the above-mentioned issues among
children in mountainous areas. Our works focus on improving
nutrition status as well as basic health education (sanitation and
personal hygiene).
CHILD HUNGER & MALNUTRITION
GSO (2008) Population change and Family Planning Survey
NIN (2009) Statistical Data on the Nutrition Situation of Children over the Years
MOLISA, University of Maastricht, and UNICEF (2008) Children in Viet Nam – Who and Where are the Poor? – The
Development and Application of a Multidimensional Approach to Child Poverty
GSO (2009) Viet Nam Household Living Standards Survey 2008
GSO (2006) Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS) 2006
World Bank (2009) Country Social Analysis: Ethnicity and Development in Vietnam.

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On our planet, one billion out of seven billion people suffer from
under-nutrition while another billion suffer from obesity.
According to an experiment conducted by Vietnam National
Institute of Nutrition’s in 2013, the proportion of adults in Vietnam
suffering from obesity stood at an alarming rate of 27.9 per cent
also in the same period, according to an experiment conducted by
the National Institute of Nutrition of Vietnam in 2013.
According to Ho Chi Minh City Nutrition Center, Diabetes in
Vietnam has increased more than 300 per cent in the number of
patients over the past decade and is likely to become an epidemic
of the century, with increasing prevalence among young people.
As of 2012 there were more than three million diabetics in the
country, putting Vietnam among the top ten countries in the world
in terms of diabetes prevalence.
The non-communicable disease has been historically found among
only the elderly and the very rich in Vietnam, but urbanization and
changes in lifestyle have brought the chronic disease to every
sector of society.
TFT VN aims to right this issue by working with restaurants, school
canteens and corporate cafeteria to come up with healthy meals
offering to consumers.
We hope our works will encourage healthy eating habits among
Vietnamese to help reduce risk of suffering from obesity-related
diseases and diseases caused by eating too much of salt, sugar,
protein, fat, glucose and industrial foods.
We encourage communities, agencies and local governments,
restaurants, school canteens and cafeterias to be part of our force
to make this CHANGE happen.

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Masa Kogure
TFTI Executive Director
Chung Nguyen
Co-founder & Country Manager
Yoshi Ohara
Co-founder
Yoko Taguchi
Co-founder
MEET OUR GREAT TEAM
Expertise: Investment Banking
and Finance
Experience: Mizuho Securities;
HSBC Vietnam
Education: Yale University;
Hitotsubashi University; London
Business School
chung.nguyen@tablefor2vn.org
Expertise: Consulting; non-
linear mechanics
Experience: IBM Japan;
Hatabaku Inc.
yoshitaka.ohara@tablefor2vn.org
Expertise: Consulting; NPO
Experience: Cross Fields;
Mitsubishi Corporation
Education: United Nations
University for Peace
yoko.taguchi@tablefor2vn.org
Expertise: Consulting; TMT
Experience: McKinsey & Co
Education: Waseda University
m.kogure@tablefor2.org

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Huyen Nguyen
Marketing Leader
Lan Tran
Partnership Leader
Ha Tran
Marketing Leader
Tu Nguyen
Social Media
MEET OUR GREAT TEAM
Expertise: Finance & Commerce
Experience: Rakuten Inc.
Education: Hitotsubashi
University
lan.tran@tablefor2vn.org
Expertise: Consulting;
Marketing; Business
Administration
Experience: Daishinsha M.C.T;
FCB Globa
Education: Hitotsubashi
University; Economics
University of Ho Chi Minh
ha.tran@tablefor2vn.org
Expertise: Law; Tourism
Education: Diplomatic Academy
of Vietnam
tu.nguyen@tablefor2vn.org
Expertise: Business
Administration; Marketing
Experience: United Nations
Volunteers
Education: Foreign Trade
University (Hanoi, Vietnam)
ngochuyen@tablefor2vn.org

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Vinh Nguyen
Marketing Leader
Tu Nguyen
Marketing Team
Thanh Duong
Finance Team Leader
Ha Bui
Marketing Team
MEET OUR GREAT TEAM
Expertise: Finance
Experience: Banker
Education: Hanoi University of
Business and Technology
tungocnguyen@tablefor2vn.org thanh.duong@tablefor2vn.org
Expertise: Finance &
Management
Experience: Credit Suisse
Education: Singapore
Management University;
Vietnam National Economics
University
ha.bui@tablefor2vn.org
Expertise: NOP; Social Issues
Experience: Australian NPO
Education: Foreign Languages
from Military Science Academy
vinh@tablefor2vn.org
Expertise: Accounting and
Finance
Experience: International NGOs
Education: Undergraduate
school in the UK

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Tam Hoang
Marketing Team
Linh Le
Partnership Team
Huyen Dang
Marketing Team
Dr. Hau Cao
Nutrition Advisor
MEET OUR GREAT TEAM
Expertise: Business
Administration
Experience: Teaching Assistant
at Viet Nam Aviation Academy
Education: Viet Nam Aviation
Academy
linh.le@tablefor2vn.org
Expertise: Business
Administration & Marketing
Experience: Pasona Global
Education: Ritsumeikan Asia
Pacific
huyen.dang@tablefor2vn.org
Expertise: Health and Nutrition
Experience: Former Head of the
National Institute of Nutrition
of Vietnam
haucao@tablefor2vn.org
Expertise: Information
Technology and
Telecommunication
Education: Waseda University
tam.hoang@tablefor2vn.org

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THE REASON IS POVERTY
AND LONG COMMUTE

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A STORY TO TELL
In Son La province or in any other poor areas of Vietnam, lunch meals
are not provided to children going to school. Instead, parents would
often come to school during the lunch time, bring their kids back home
to feed them, and then take them back to school for study.
However, due to long commute and due to poverty, many parents are
reluctant to send their kids to school. Instead, they keep their kids at
home where they can take care of the kids and do farming or working
nearby. Those parents cannot afford leaving their work for several hours
just to bring their kids home, feed them, and take them back to school.
Hoa is one of our kids, whose parents are in the situation described
above. While her classmates enjoy going to school, she stays home with
her parents most of the time.

NUTRITION FOR ETHNIC MINORITY CHILDREN
OUR PROJECTS

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This project which commenced in October
2014 is being implemented by TFTVN and
the Centre for Sustainable Development
Studies (CSDS), a local Vietnamese non-
government organization engaging in
capacity building initiatives.
The project is based in Van Ho District of Son
La Province, a remote and mountainous
region located 200 kilometers North West of
Hanoi, the capital city. Ethnic minority
groups constitute over 90 per cent of the
population of Van Ho District. Living
standards are low and the number of
households living in poverty is considerably
high, estimated at 20 to 41 percent
according to Vietnam General Statistics
Office. Access to health care is limited with
minimal infrastructure. Due to the high rate
of poverty, diets are inadequate and lacking
in essential nutrients. This impacts most
severely on children from birth to 6 years old
who suffer from malnutrition and other
health problems.
The project entails local people preparing and
distributing a nutritious lunch meal five days
a week to ethnic minority kindergarten
children in three villages of Van Ho
Commune, including Pa Che 2, Pa Cop and
Sao Do. Through providing these nutritious
meals continuously for eight months a year
over a period of at least three years, the
project aims to improve the health status
and well-being of local ethnic minority
children and to potentially reduce the need
for medical treatments, thus effectively
enhancing kids’ educational performance
and quality of life.
Funding for the project will be provided by
TFTI and mobilized through TFT fundraising
efforts in Vietnam.
NUTRITION FOR ETHNIC MINORITY
CHILDREN

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Health
To improve overall health conditions of children in three
kindergartens we support by providing free nutritious lunch meals
and healthy afternoon snacks. We at the same time strive to reduce
the malnutrition rate among children under six from the current
23% to 16% in three years.
Education
To increase attendance rates at three kindergartens from the 80%
to 99% in three years.
Sustainability
Together with local authorities, schools and parents, in three to four
years, we aim to create a sustainable program to fund and to
provide lunch meals and afternoon snacks to children.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES

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PROJECT PERFORMANCE
Impact on Health
 The conclusion drawn from an examination of
the heights and weights of children over a
period of one year into the school feeding
program is that there has been an overall
physical improvement in the health of the
children which can be attributed to their
additional nutrition intake.
 Ms. Tam, former teacher and principal of one
kindergarten, and now our project coordinator
said: “our children now look healthy and are
happy to go to school at school”

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PROJECT PERFORMANCE
91%
92%
97%
99%
98%
100%
86%
88%
90%
92%
94%
96%
98%
100%
102%
Pa Che II Pa Cop II Sao Do
2014 2015
Attendance Rate at Three Kindergarten Schools Receiving Supports
 As children are attending kindergarten
more regularly, they are able to learn
class contents at a faster pace.
 In addition, parents are now able to
spend more hours doing seasonal
farming work and other kinds of labor
works, thereby increasing their
household income.
 Another economic benefit to parents is
that they are able to save more money
due to the fact that they do not have to
provide daily lunches for their children

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PROJECT PERFORMANCE
Sustainability: Parents Supporting School Feeding Program
 Parents start recognizing the benefits of
the school feeding program supported by
TFT VN, on our kids’ overall health,
educational experience. Hence, in the
second year into this program, parents
are willing to support the program by
donating VND2,000 per school day to
help sustain the program
 In addition, from time to time, parents
bring vegetables to schools to support
the program. Parents also at times cook
lunch for children so that teachers could
focus on teaching our kids.

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PROJECT PERFORMANCE
Sustainability: Vegetable Garden Project
 In an effort to sustain the school feeding
program, with the support from a not-for-
profit organization Tony Moringa, which has
donated in-kind gift of vegetable seeds in
2015, TFT VN and CSDS have planted
vegetable gardens at three kindergarten
schools.
 We expect the garden project will help
reduce the cost of the program by 10
percent in 2016 – 2017 school year.

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PROJECT PERFORMANCE
Sustainability
 In 2014, TFT VN covered 100 percent of the
school feeding program expenses at three
kindergarten schools.
 Starting from 2015, parents and schools
contributed to cover 20 percent of the
program expenses.
 From 2016, as the vegetable garden project
has been implemented, the vegetable
gardens at three kindergarten schools are
expected to reduce the overall expense of
the program by 10 percent
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
2014 2015 2016
TFT VN Parents & Schools Other Sources
Contribution to The School Feeding Program

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We have chosen Son La province (North of Vietnam)
to launch our school feeding program due to its high
level of poverty and high malnutrition rate
Province
Pa Che 2, Pa Cop and Sao Do in Son La Province have
been selected to receive our support since 2014
Kindergartens
Is the number of children at three kindergarten
schools to have been enjoying our school feeding
program since 2014
Children
Is the number of meals TFT VN have provided to 63
children at 3 kindergarten schools in Son La province
since 2014
Meals
PROJECT STATS
1
3
63
45k
The website was launched in November 2014. Since then, the site
attracted nearly 400 views per month on average. TFT VN use the
website to keep the public and its partners informed about its activities
www.tablefor2vn.org
Facebook was launched in August 2014. Since then, the site attracted
800+ followers
Facebook/tablefor2.vn
YouTube is a channel for TFT VN to publish videos that we have taken
during our field trip to visit our kids in Son La province. Since 2015, our
videos have attracted 300+ views
YouTube/user/tablefor2vn
LinkedIn is a channel where we provide information about TFT VN in
order to attract volunteers and talents to come to work with us
LinkedIn/company/table-for-two-Vietnam

TYPICAL LUNCH AND SNACK MENU
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Lunch Meal Rice Eggs cooked with
pork Spinach cooked with
bone
Rice Tofu with pork
Potato soup with bone
Rice Beef and bean
sprout Soup or fish
Rice Chicken, Carrot
soup and Vegetable
Rice Pork, Spring melon
soup with bone
Snack Meal Noodle with pork Pork forage Instant noodle with pork Sticky rice with peanut +
water melon
Instant noodle + banana

Imagine Your Meal Could Help a Child Being Hunger
and Keep Her In School
HOW DO WE FINANCE

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The Center for Sustainable Development
Studies (CSDS) is a Vietnamese non-profit
organization legally registered since 2009.
CSDS has been active in addressing
development issues/challenges in
Vietnam with particular focuses on
climate change, women empowerment
through sustainable livelihood support,
children support through social inclusion,
youth development through international
exchange and non-traditional education.
Geographically, CSDS operates in different
regions in Vietnam including Ha Noi, other
nearby provinces in North Vietnam, and
Ho Chi Minh City in the South.
As an organization advocating for children
to have access to nutritious foods and
better educational experience, CSDS felt
naturally in love with TFT Vietnam’s
concept and mission. Having been going
to various parts of Vietnam to help
schools build classrooms, kitchens and
facilities, CSDS team understands how
important access to good nutrition is for
kids’ entire lives and it is so disturbing
that we live in a world where so many
children go hungry. In addition, dropout
rates in primary schools in poor areas
have been consistently high as parents
rather want to keep their children home
to feed them and/or to ask them to work
so that the family could produce enough
foods for themselves and the children.
With our shared understanding of the
issue, and the severe and long-term
consequence it could have on society,
CSDS and TFT Vietnam formed strategic
partnership in March 2014. Here we
understand that school meals not only do
provide incentives for parents to send
their kids to school but also improve
health and quality of education for our
children.
CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
www.magazine.csds.vn

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CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
As a strategic partner, CSDS helps TFT VN in the following areas:
 CSDS team visits restaurants, corporate cafeterias and school canteens
on behalf of TFT VN to promote TFT concept and guide our partners to
get involved in TFT program.
 CSDS is be responsible for implementing our program at chosen
primary schools. The organization is also be responsible for monitoring
and reporting to TFT VN and TFTI about implementation progress of
school meal program on a semi-annual basis.
 CSDS will, together with TFT VN team, organize seminars promoting TFT
concept at schools and companies; and promote TFT concept through
the media, webpages and online.
www.magazine.csds.vn

ROBATA DINING AN
15C Le Thanh Ton, District 1, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
08-3822-5329
www.robata-an.com/

Pizza 4P’s
 8/15 Le Thanh Ton, District.1 ,Ho Chi Minh City
 Lot MD2, Nguyen Van Linh Boulevard, Tan Phu Ward
District 7, Ho Chi Minh City
 24 Ly Quoc Su Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi 0120-789-4444
pizza4ps@gmail.com
www.pizza4ps.com/

ARIES COFFEE
7F, OCD Building, #1 O Cho Dua street, Dong Da, Hanoi
091-457-0191
aries.coffee.2015@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/Aries-
Coffee-1170214659673019/

FIREFLY COFFEE
#93 Nguyen Trai street, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi
04-6286-9999
https://www.facebook.com/93nguyentrai

TONY MORINGA
https://www.facebook.com/tonymoringa
tonybuoisang@gmail.com

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+ + =
Restaurants
Support TFT VN through
making donation for each
healthy meals sold
Corporates
Help TFT VN sustain the
school feeding program
through giving in-kind
contributions
Individuals
Are welcome to help TFT
VN by donating a
maximum amount of
US$50 equivalent per
annual
Healthy and Educated Children
we believe every child in
Vietnam deserves a solid
education and to be free
from hunger
GETTING INVOLVED
For Individuals only: http://tablefor2vn.org/donate/
For Restaurants and Corporates, please contact us via email at inquiry@tablefor2vn.org

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RESTAURANT PARTNERS
GETTING INVOLVED
For further information, please contact us via email at inquiry@tablefor2vn.org
Supporting
$50
Yearly
Supporting TFT VN
By Contributing
$50 per Year
On September 1
Plan
Thank You
Space
Yearly
Supporting TFT VN
By Placing Our Posters
At Your Restaurant
Plan
Vietnam
$440
Yearly
Supporting TFT VN
By Contributing
$500 per Year
Half On March 1
And The Other Half
Plan
On September 1
Please note that plan can be cancelled any time at the discretion of restaurant partners

Address
Center for Sustainable Economic Studies
#72 Pham Than Duat
Cau Giay District
Hanoi, Vietnam
Phone & Fax
Direct Line: +84 4 6027 8323
Mobile: +84 985 209 180
inquiry@tablefor2vn.org
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Facebook.com/tablefor2.vn
YouTube.com/user/tablefor2vn
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