Phước Huệ Pagoda, Đà Nẵng 2026: 200 Gift Packages and Cash Offerings

On 20 March 2026 the Compassionate Hands Foundation gave 200 gift packages and cash offerings at Phước Huệ Pagoda in Đà Nẵng, before the final stop in Huế.

On 20 March 2026 the Compassionate Hands Foundation (Hội Từ Thiện Bàn Tay Nhân Ái) arrived at Phước Huệ Pagoda in Đà Nẵng, the second stop of the day and one of the last of its 2026 Vietnam charity trip. The team had travelled nearly two hours from Quảng Nam along river and mountain roads. At the pagoda it gave out 200 gift packages to local villagers.

A pagoda at the foot of the mountain

Phước Huệ sits in the suburbs, away from the bustle of the city, tucked beneath a mountain. As the narrator describes it, it is a quiet place where people in the area gather. Each package contained rice, instant noodles, conical hats, cooking oil, soy sauce, seasoning powder, sandals, towels, blankets, milk biscuits, toothpaste, soap, medicated oil and prayer beads. Team members also handed out tịnh tài (cash offerings) to the villagers.

Something special happened that day: local Buddhists from Phước Huệ rolled up their sleeves alongside the team to arrange the gifts, so that villagers would not have to wait long.

A teaching on cause and effect

During the ceremony a senior monk, introduced as a lecturing Venerable, spoke to the villagers about the law of cause and effect. He said everyone wants health, happiness and peace, and everyone fears illness and accidents, yet few understand the law of cause and effect that the Buddha taught. He added that this law was not invented by the Buddha but is simply a law of nature.

Bodhisattvas fear the cause, ordinary beings fear the result.

The lecturing Venerable

He said anyone who walks the path of awakening and shares their compassion to help other beings can be called a Bodhisattva. So the good deeds the foundation's members carry out in many places, he said, are also the hearts of Bodhisattvas.

The abbess and the old pagoda

A foundation representative then recalled his first visit to Phước Huệ, nearly 20 years ago. The pagoda was in poor repair. The nuns had no decent place to rest, and no beds, so they slept on the floor.

When we came here, we saw that although the abbess lived in a very dilapidated pagoda, she was always thinking about the hardship of the poor people in this area.

Foundation representative

Sharing her concern for the villagers, the foundation appeals to people far away, overseas, who live relatively comfortably and feel a pull toward their homeland. Today it brings those donors back to hand the gifts over in person. He also thanked the abbess for distributing monthly rice on the foundation's behalf to villagers in need, and for organizing the day's distribution.

Tired but not stopping

The narrator says this was the second stop of the day. Traces of many long days showed on the members' faces: tired eyes, heavy shoulders, steps no longer as quick as at the start. Yet standing in front of the villagers, no one slowed down.

The elderly villagers counted their money slowly with wrinkled hands, one note at a time, as if each were something precious. For them it meant a little less worry in the days ahead. Others came limping on sticks, step by slow step, however far and hard it was. Seeing this, the team members could only bend down and do a little more, give a little more.

The last stop: Huế

As Phước Huệ closed, the narration looked back over the 2026 route: from the water country of the Mekong Delta to the southern coast, through the Central Highlands and down into the windswept central region. One stop remained, Huế, where the team would go next. The bus rolled toward Huế with everyone tired but glad, nearly at the end of the trip and yet unwilling to stop.