Welcome to LATO
Our mission is simple: We help impoverished children and their families live a better life through providing basic human needs such as food, clothing, and shelter. We also believe the path to a brighter future is through education. LATO helps provide that education by building and renovating schools, and pairing up students with sponsors who will pay for their schooling costs.
While much of our work is in the founder's homeland of Vietnam, LATO also serves refugee families in California as well as providing humanitarian relief in times of great need, like during natural disasters.
Founded in 1997 by Emmy Award-winning Journalist Leyna Nguyen, LATO is changing thousands of lives...one at a time. Thank you for helping us help others.
While much of our work is in the founder's homeland of Vietnam, LATO also serves refugee families in California as well as providing humanitarian relief in times of great need, like during natural disasters.
Founded in 1997 by Emmy Award-winning Journalist Leyna Nguyen, LATO is changing thousands of lives...one at a time. Thank you for helping us help others.
Not all of us can do great things, but we can all do small things with great LOVE.
Your tax-deductible donation is going to the people who need it.
Please be assured that that your donation will go to help impoverished children and families in Vietnam. LATO is run strictly by volunteers and funds are brought directly to rural areas of Vietnam for the purchase of food and other necessities. We do not give cash gifts, we have no brochures or offices, we do not pay salaries, and we oversee the distribution of gifts ourselves. LATO does not work with any other charity, group, or government in the U.S. or Vietnam in this effort.
