YSEALI Spring 2017: Nguyen Thi Thao Tran

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Participant Name: Nguyen Thi Thao Tran
Project Location: Ba Ria Vung Tau, Vietnam
Program: Young South East Asia Leadership Initiative (YSEALI)
Term: Spring 2017
Project Title: BEN & BEN Book Bank
UConn GTDI Project Award: Application Accepted & Funding Awarded

Nguyen Tran "July" is a Holistic Health Coach who helps individuals and groups to establish transformational habits in diet and lifestyle to create sustainable change for their health and wellness. July is Certified Graduate and Award-Winning Holistic Health Coach from Institute for Integrative Nutrition, USA., Health Product Initiative Manager at TBK Green Food in Ho Chi Minh City and Co-founder, Nutrition and Content Advisor of Foodmap.asia - an e-commerce platform for natural healthful agricultural products. With 5 year collective experience in education and health coaching, July is building a Bilingual Health Education Program for K-12 students and parents in Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City.

Organization Information: BEN & The BEN Book Bank

Brainy English Network (BEN) is an English training centre for kids from 4-10 years old in Ho Chi Minh City. BEN’s mission is to provide high-quality language and life skills education taught by 100% qualified native English teachers with a low affordable tuition fee, along with a closely supported parent community. In addition to BEN, the BEN Book Bank is to be a hub of educational resources, especially good decent books, for people who have more to donate/exchange and people who have less to take advantage of free surplus things for their children. It’s from the public, for the public.